Anmerkungen:
Literaturangaben
"This book was conceived at the workshop 'Political Reconciliation and Civil Society in 20th-Century Europe' organized by the research group on 'History and Memory' at the University of Konstanz (Germany) on 9-11 December 2010" (Acknowledgements, Seite 21)
Beschreibung:
How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations - have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion.