Peace Psychology in the Balkans

Dealing with a Violent Past while Building Peace
2012
ISBN: 978-1-4614-1947-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Peace Psychology Book Series

The volume covers the development of peace psychology in the Balkans. The Balkans is a region marked by post-communist and post-conflict transitional turmoil, and this book provides a comprehensive introduction to research in peace psychology in this part of the world, written by scholars primarily working in the Balkan area. It brings together innovative scholarship that examines interdisciplinary aspects of peace psychology researched and written by scholars from Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Croatia, and Slovenia as well as presenting research that responds to contemporary global issues by tracking the ways in which peace psychology is developing and implementing in the Balkans.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simi¿, Olivera

Simic, Olivera

Philpot, Catherine R.

Volcic, Zala

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.      Localizing Transitional Justice: Civil Society Initiatives and Practices in the Balkans
         Olivera Simic and Zala Volcic
   
 
      PART I.    Initiatives within the nation states
 
 
 
2.      Civil Society and Post-Communist Transitional Justice in Romania
        Lavinia Stan
 
3.      Dealing with the past in post-war Croatia: perceptions, problems and prospects
     Tamara Banjeglav
 
4.      The failure of Macedonian post-communist transitional justice: lustration, between cleansing and parody
Despina Angelovska
 
5.       Transitional and transnational justice in Bosnia-Herzegovina: analyzing civil society organizations discourses
          Eunice Castro Seixas
 
6.      The ‘Transitional Citizen’: Civil Society, Political Agency and Hopes for Transitional Justice in Bosnia-Herzegovina
          Briony Jones, Alex Jeffrey and Michaelina Jakala
 
7.      Failure of Transitional Justice in Albania: Too Much Politics, Too Little Debate
         Arolda Elbasani
 
8.      Truth and the Shadow of Justice
        Jamie Rowen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     PART II.    Transnational civil society practices
 
 
 
9.      Structured Encounters in Post-Conflict/Post-Yugoslav Days: Visiting Belgrade and Prishtina
           Orli Fridman
 
10.  What About the Women? Transitional Justice and Gender in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Ireland
Hedley Abernethy and Michael Potter
 
11.   ‘Pillar of Shame’: Civil Society, UN accountability and Genocide in Srebrenica
Olivera Simic  
 
 
12.  Afraid To Cry Wolf: Human Rights Activists’ Conundrum to Define Narratives of Justice and Truth in Collective Accountability Efforts
 Arnaud Kurze and Iva Vukusic
 
 
13.  From International Courts to Grassroots Organizing: Obstacles to Transitional Justice in the Balkans
        Jill Irvine and Patrice McMahon