Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Transnational Civil Society’s Contribution to Reconciliation 7
4. Reconciliation after the Armenian Genocide
5. “A Question of Humanity in its Entirety” 25
6. Mea Culpas, Negotiations, Apologias 51
7. Reconciliation and Human Rights
8. Soldiers’ Reconciliation 97
9. “A Blessed Act of Oblivion” 115
10. Reconciliation in the Aftermath of World War II
11. Franco-German Rapprochement and Reconciliation in the Ecclesial Domain 143
12. A Right to Irreconcilability? 167
13. From Atonement to Peace? 201
14. Reconciliation in Postcolonial Settings
15. Apologising for Colonial Violence 239
16. Facing Postcolonial Entanglement and the Challenge of Responsibility 277
17. Instruments of Reconciliation: Commissions in European and Global Perspective
18. Political Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry 315
19. From Truth to Reconciliation 339
20. About the Authors 369