Suchergebnisse

Building bridges -- Being the other -- Rebuilding trust through dialogic exchange -- Translating lived realities -- Personal lived reality : opening of my self -- Engaging in reconciliation -- Ethical responsibility -- Conclusion : towards intergenerational reconciliation -- Epilogue : coming home--bi-giiwe

1. Dealing with the past in a pacted transition -- 2. The direct consequences of the Chilean TRC -- 3. Early debates and criticisms of the Chilean TRC and its role in the transitional process -- 4. The return of the past : the arrest of Pinochet and the Mesa de Dialogo -- 5. The Chilean TRC and international justice -- 6. The Chilean TRC and 'late justice' -- 7. An extended truth and its effects -- 8. The Chilean truth commissions and memorialisation.

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; 1 Unfinished business; 2 The birth of 'Thainess'; 3 Revolution forsworn; 4 The age of betrayal; 5 The good dictatorship; 6 Rise of the politicians; 7 Barbarians at the gate; 8 State of unexception; Bibliography; Index.

Alessandro Ferrara explains what he terms 'the democratic horizon' - the idea that democracy is no longer simply one form of government among others, but is instead almost universally regarded as the only legitimate form of government, the horizon to which most of us look. Professor Ferrara reviews the challenges under which democracies must operate, focusing on hyperpluralism, and impresses a new twist onto the framework of political liberalism. He shows that distinguishing real democracies from imitations can be difficult, responding to this predicament by enriching readers' understanding of the spirit of democracy; clearing readers' views of pluralism from residues of ethnocentrism; and conceiving multiple versions of democratic culture, rooted in the diversity of civilizational contexts.

"In 1991, after the end of the Pinochet regime, the newly-elected democratic government of Chile established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate and report on some of the worst human rights violations committed under the seventeen-year military dictatorship. The Chilean TRC was one of the first truth commissions established in the world. This book examines how the work of the Chilean TRC contributed to the transition to democracy and to subsequent developments in accountability and transformation in Chile. The book takes a long term view on the Chilean TRC, asking to what extent the truth commission contributed to the development of the subsequent human rights initiatives that were implemented, and explores how this relationship was established over time. Anita Ferrara challenges previous views that the Chilean TRC was of limited success, by arguing that over the longer term, the Chilean TRC played a key role as an enabler of justice and a means by which ethical and institutional transformation has occurred within Chile. With the benefit of this historical perspective, the book concludes that the impact of truth commissions in general needs to be carefully reviewed in light of the Chilean experience. This book will be of great interest and use to students and scholars of conflict resolution, criminal international law, and comparative legal systems in Latin America"--

Introduction 1. - Part I: A Theoretical Overview. - 1. Religion and world politics 25. - 2. Religions and global governance 41. - Part II: Issues and Applications . - 3. Islam between national and international politics 53 . - 4. The Catholic Church and the global shift of power 92. - 5. Religious Freedom in the international practice 104

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Introduction -- A diplomatic journey -- A methodological overview -- Integrating religion in international relations? -- Religions and violence: myths and reality -- The role of religions in conflict prevention and resolution -- Non-state transnational religious actors -- Book structure -- Part I A Theoretical Overview -- 1 Religion and World Politics -- Religions and inter-state relations -- Religions and internationalism -- Religions and transnationalism -- Religions and globalism -- 2 Religions and Global Governance -- Polity -- Politics -- Policy -- Secularization and governance -- Part II Issues and Applications -- 3 Islam between National and International Politics -- Geopolitics and identity -- Political transitions in the Arab-Islamic world -- Politics and religion in Pakistan: international and transnational dimensions -- The international context -- The analytical context: transnational religions -- Religions and "soft power" -- Transnational Islam: Pakistan as a case-study -- 4 The Catholic Church and the Global Shift of Power -- Interpreting globalization. Between Augustine and Thomas Aquinas -- The Church and the "New World" -- 5 Religious Freedom in the International Practice -- Reciprocity? -- Reporting on religious freedom: credibility and legitimacy -- Standards, actors, legitimacy and policy -- Current practices -- Italian foreign policy and religious freedom -- A case study: the Italian "Observatory on Religious Freedom" -- Index