Abstract
This paper explores the potential of commemoration to assist successfully with contemporary conflict transition efforts in Northern Ireland.
It asks whether commemoration, as a form of addressing Northern Ireland’s relatively recent violent past, can, as Brandon Hamber
(2006: 562) asserts, ‘bolster national attempts to ‘‘re-establish’’ society, and as such have a healing and restorative dimension’. Instead of
focusing on solutions to socio-economic disparities, peace-builder John Paul Lederach’s (1997) approach to the psycho-social dimensions of
conflict offers a provocative model through which to assess the role of commemoration in creating sustainable reconciliation
It asks whether commemoration, as a form of addressing Northern Ireland’s relatively recent violent past, can, as Brandon Hamber
(2006: 562) asserts, ‘bolster national attempts to ‘‘re-establish’’ society, and as such have a healing and restorative dimension’. Instead of
focusing on solutions to socio-economic disparities, peace-builder John Paul Lederach’s (1997) approach to the psycho-social dimensions of
conflict offers a provocative model through which to assess the role of commemoration in creating sustainable reconciliation
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 28-34 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Irish Journal of Anthropology |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |