Reconciliation after War

This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war.

1. Introduction: A genealogy of reconciliation Henry Redwood and Rachel Kerr Part I: The Distant Past 2. Remembering What One Has Forgotten: Athenian Reconciliation After War (Crimes) Robin Osborne 3. Jesuit Peace-Making in the Kingdom of Naples: Reconciliation in Early-Modern Europe Stephen Cummins 4. Reconciliation and Oblivion in the English Republics Imogen Peck Part II: The Longue Durée 5. 1917 In 2017: A 'Useless' Past? Remembering and Forgetting the Bolshevik Revolution Natasha Kuhrt 6. One Hundred Years of Reconciliation: Fractured Memories o the Finnish Civil War Teemu Laulainen 7. The Paradox of Reconciliation: Early Post-War Chinese-Japanese Experience in Regional and Comparative Perspective Daqing Yang 8. There Once Was A Country: The Construction and Deconstruction of Yugoslavia Jelena Subotic 9. The Unreconciled US Civil War James Gow and Rana Ibrahem Part III: Alternative Perspectives 10. Religion and Reconciliation: Power, Practice and Rejections of the Truth and Reconciliation Project in South African and Bosnian Contexts George R. Wilkes 11. Burying the Hatchet: Exploring Indigenous Practice of Reconciliation Among Pastoralist Communities in East Africa Anne Kubai 12. If You Are Not Careful, Reconciliation Will Be Spreading All Over The Country': Reconciliation in Britain's Humanitarian Aid to Post-War Germany, 1919-1925 Ben Holmes 13. The Art of Healing and Reconciliation in Canada Jonathan Dewar Part IV: Challenging Conventional Wisdom 14. Reconciled to What? Community Relations and the Anti-Politics of Reconciliation in Northern Ireland Jonathan Evershed 15. Reconciliation Without Transitional Justice? The Challenges of Imposed Reconciliation in Spain Rosa Ana Alija-Fernandez and Olga Martin-Ortega 16. Unhealed Wounds: The Limits of German Reconciliation in the Case of Distomo, Greece Olga Burkhardt-Vetter 17. Reconciliation As An Ongoing Political Project: The Case of Japan Madoka Futamura 18. Epilogue Henry Redwood