Why does conflict deteriorate into violence and war? How does collective memory influence healing and social justice in post-conflict situations? What is the role of judicial accountability - crime and truth commissions - for past violations of human rights? This work looks at how people rebuild broken communities and the tensions that arise in post-conflict situations. It addresses questions of social justice as both ends and means of healing and reconciliation, examines the nature and dynamics of conflict, and considers judicial accountability and the role of truth commissions as approaches to healing and social justice. The book includes consideration of the gendered elements of conflict and concludes with a chapter on the pursuit of justice as an underlying cause of civil wars in Africa and elsewhere.
Why does conflict deteriorate into violence and war? How does collective memory influence healing and social justice in post-conflict situations? What is the role of judicial accountability - crime and truth commissions - for past violations of human rights? This work looks at how people rebuild broken communities and the tensions that arise in post-conflict situations. It addresses questions of social justice as both ends and means of healing and reconciliation, examines the nature and dynamics of conflict, and considers judicial accountability and the role of truth commissions as approaches to healing and social justice. The book includes consideration of the gendered elements of conflict and concludes with a chapter on the pursuit of justice as an underlying cause of civil wars in Africa and elsewhere.
Introduction: Facing Truth, Facing Justice - Ifi Amadiume and
Abdullahi An-Na'im
Part I: Social Justice
1.Memory, Truth and Healing - Wole Soyinka
2.The Politics of Memory: Biafra and Intellectual Responsibility -
Ifi Amadiume
3.Biafran War Literature and Africa's Search for Social Justice -
Akachi Ezeigbo
Part II: The Nature of Conflict
4.Social Movements Revisited: Mediation of Contradictory Roles -
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Svetlana Peshkova
5.The Interface of Conflicts in West Africa: New Geopolitics and
Emergence of Regional Powers - Tshikala Biaya
6.Post-Biafran Marginalization of the Igbo in Nigeria - Nnaemeka
Ikpeze
7.Towards a Social History of Warfare and Reconstruction: The
Nigerian-Biafran Case - Axel Harneit-Sievers and Sydney Emezue
Part III: Judicial Accountability
8.Truth and Justice for Human Rights Crimes: Latin America and
Accountability - Juan Mendez
9. Truth in a Box: The Limits of Justice through Judicial
Mechanisms - Julie Mertus
10. Justice for Women Victims of Violence: A Look at Rwanda After
the 1994 Genocide - Binaifer Nowrojee and Regan Ralph
Appendix: Truth Commissions
This work looks at the tensions that arise in post-conflict situations, and how people rebuild broken communities. It addresses questions of social justice as both ends and means of healing and reconciliation, and examines the nature and dynamics of conflict and judicial accountability.
Ifi Amadiume is a award-winning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. She has lived in Nigeria and the UK and is currently associate professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover. There, she teaches in both the Department of Religion and the African-American Studies Programme. Professor Amadiume is author of the influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands (Zed Books, 1988) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award in 1989.
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