Lead essay: Reconciliation: From the usually unspoken to the almost unimaginable

Paul James

doi:10.4324/9781315247304-21

Lead essay: Reconciliation: From the usually unspoken to the almost unimaginable

Paul James

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University

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Abstract

Around the world today, numerous communities face an immediate future of intense violence and social upheaval. The Congo, East Timor, Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, the Sudan and Tibet are examples amongst many others. In zones of chronic tension, politics characteristically lurches back and forth from hope to despair to hope … to despair. Peace talks, road maps and new elections descend into a quotidian hell of missiles, armoured vehicles and suicide-martyrs – and then new maps are drawn again. In Sri Lanka and Israel-Palestine, violence erupts in remembrance of past violence. In Tibet, dissent is met with tanks. In East Timor, after the high expectations of independence and the rigorous work of the Reception, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CAVR), an unexpected political divide emerges as the brothers and sisters of Lorosa’e and Loromonu become enemies, willing to kill and die over status and resources (Grenfell 2008).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Pathways to Reconciliation
Subtitle of host publication	Between Theory and Practice
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Pages	115-125
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351912655
ISBN (Print)	9781315247304
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315247304-21
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016
Externally published	Yes

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© Philipa Rothfield, Cleo Fleming and Paul A. Komesaroff 2008.

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