Truth recovery in Northern Ireland : Critically interpreting the past.

Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its troubled political history - truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past - yet the void in knowledge and the lack of academic literature with regard to victims' rights is particularly striking. This book analyses trut...

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Main Author: Simpson, Kirk
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Edition:Online-ausg.
Series:EBL-Schweitzer
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; List of boxes; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The conflict in Northern Ireland A contextual and thematic analysis; 2 Truth commissions and dealing with the past; 3 Voices silenced, voices rediscovered Victims of violence and the reclamation of language in transitional societies; 4 Victims of political violence A Habermasian model of truth recovery; 5 Memorialisation in post-conflict societies Critically interpreting the past; 6 Conclusion; References; Index