Zeina Barakat

Envisioning Reconciliation

Signs of Hope for the Middle East

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

While political reconciliation is often understood as promoting peace and harmony in post-conflict situations, Barakat explores reconciliation amid crisis and conflict with a particular focus on Israel and Palestine. Various pre-conditions for reconciliation are addressed (truth, justice, trust), and barriers hindering reconciliation's prospects in conflicts are diagnosed (denial, dehuminazation, non-recognition). Perceptions of the past and aspirations for the future are formulated such as apology, forgiveness and empathetic dialogue. Political reconciliation processes are profound and long-term; they demand changes in basic aspirations, emotions, and feelings among those involved in conflict. Barakat concludes that promoting reconciliation requires both a top down and bottom up approach. In this lessons from South Africa can be learnt. Leading figures like Nelson Mandela are models in promoting a shift in the psychosocial thinking conducive to social conflict transformation.

Produktdetails

• Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution 1
• Verlag: WBG Academic
• Seitenzahl: 163
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9783534406906
• ISBN-10: 3534406907
• Artikelnr.: 65469703

Autorenporträt

Zeina Barakat, a Jerusalem-born Palestinian scholar, Dr. phil. (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena 2017), is a Research Assistant at Europa-Universität Flensburg and since 2019 a Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute (Cambridge University/ UK).