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How does one forgive an international political transgression as deep as genocide or apartheid? Forgiveness is often conceived of as an element of personal morality, and even at that it is difficult. This book argues that it is also an essential part of political ethics, especially when dealing with collective wrongdoing by political regimes. In the past, a retributive justice demanding prosecution and punishment of all past offenses has kept the international community away from moving on to the next step in regime change. Here, Mark Amstutz takes a restorative justice approach, calling for n

Reconciliation --- Forgiveness --- Truth commissions. --- Réconciliation --- Pardon --- Commissions vérité et réconciliation --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Truth commissions --- Réconciliation --- Commissions vérité et réconciliation --- Commissions, Truth --- Reconciliation commissions --- Peace making --- Peacemaking --- Reconciliatory behavior --- Governmental investigations --- Human rights --- Quarreling --- Reconciliation - Political aspects

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Following extended periods of conflict or repression, political reconciliation is indispensable to the establishment or restoration of democratic relationships and critical to the pursuit of peacemaking globally. In this book, Colleen Murphy offers an innovative analysis of the moral problems plaguing political relationships under the strain of civil conflict and repression. Focusing on the unique moral damage that attends the deterioration of political relationships, Murphy identifies the precise kinds of repair and transformation that processes of political reconciliation ought to promote. Building on this analysis, she proposes a normative model of political relationships. A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation delivers an original account of the failure and restoration of political relationships, which will be of interest to philosophers, social scientists, legal scholars, policy analysts, and all those who are interested in transitional justice, global politics, and democracy.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Law of armed conflicts. Humanitarian law --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Reconciliation --- Rule of law --- Truth commissions --- War crimes trials --- Political aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Commissions, Truth --- Reconciliation commissions --- Governmental investigations --- Human rights --- Supremacy of law --- Administrative law --- Constitutional law --- Peace making --- Peacemaking --- Reconciliatory behavior --- Quarreling --- Rule of law. --- Truth commissions. --- War crime trials. --- Trials (War crimes) --- Trials (Crimes against humanity) --- Trials (Genocide) --- Trials --- Political aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Reconciliation - Political aspects --- Reconciliation - Moral and ethical aspects

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This book reveals the social logic of the medieval rituals of reconciliation as showcased by the most potent rite, the kiss of peace. Ritual is presented as a contested ground on which individuals, groups, and political and moral authorities competed for and appropriated political sovereignty. The thesis of the study is that by employing ritual and bodily mnemonics as strategic tools, the forces of order and official morality strove to organize personality structures around a hegemonic value system. Researching three analytical fields-the legal bonds of peace, the emotional economy of ritual, and the building of identity-the book highlights the contents and evolution of ritual reconciliation in diverse cultural contexts in the period between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.

Kissing --- Reconciliation --- Symbolism in politics --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Social history --- Europe, Western --- Political aspects --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Europe --- History --- Sociology of culture --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Baisers --- Réconciliation --- Symbolisme en politique --- Rites et cérémonies médiévaux --- Histoire sociale --- Aspect politique --- Histoire --- Europe de l'Ouest --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Symbolic politics --- Political science --- Medieval rites and ceremonies --- Civilization, Medieval --- Peace making --- Peacemaking --- Reconciliatory behavior --- Quarreling --- Manners and customs --- Political aspects&delete& --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- Kissing - Political aspects - Europe, Western - History. --- Reconciliation - Political aspects - Europe, Western - History. --- Symbolism in politics - Europe, Western - History. --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval - Europe, Western. --- Social history - Medieval, 500-1500. --- Europe, Western - Social life and customs. --- Europe - History - 476-1492.