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In Response to Wolfgang Dietrich’s Article About “Peace and Reconciliation Studies” or How to Catch a Unicorn?

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Reconciliation, Heritage and Social Inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa

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Since the beginning of 2021, I am enjoying the privilege to work together with professor Wolfgang Dietrich, UNESCO chair for Peace Studies at Innsbruck university, in the framework of the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (AARMENA).1

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Cf. the website of AARMENA under www.aarmena.uni-jena.de the pages on the project: www.aarmena.uni-jena.de/Erasmus.

  2. 2.

    Cf. www.jcrs.uni-jena.de.

  3. 3.

    All RIPAR volumes, published at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht since RIPAR 1, Societies in Transition. Latin America between Conflict and Reconciliation, published in 2012.

  4. 4.

    Today the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation commission (2008–2015) has become a certain model for Reconciliation between native populations and majoritarian societies based on settler colonialism and destruction of indigenous traditions and ways of life.

  5. 5.

    Cf. From a political science perspective the classical overview by Lily Gardner-Feldman, Germany’s Foreign Policy of Reconciliation, Rowman & Littlefield 2012.

  6. 6.

    Cf. Jolanta Janaszko, “Disarming Memory: The Katyn Massacre and Reconciliation in Polish-Russian Relations 1990–2015”. In: Lily Gardner-Feldman/Raisa Barash/Samuel Goda/André Zempelburg (eds.), The Former Soviet Union and East Central Europe between Conflict and Reconciliation. RIPAR 4. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2019, pp. 167–187.

  7. 7.

    Cf. Carolina Rehrmann, Der Zypernkonflikt. Eine sozialpsychologische Diskursanalyse. Springer 2020.

  8. 8.

    Yaakov Bar-Siman Tov (ed.), From Conflict Resolution to Reconciliation. Oxford University Press 2002.

  9. 9.

    Joanna Santa Barbara, Johan Galtung, Diane Perlman, Reconciliation: Clearing the Past, Building a Future. Kolofon Press, 2012, available trough www.transcend.org/tup.

  10. 10.

    John Paul Lederach, Building Peace: Reconciliation in Divided Societies. Washington: USIP Press, 1998.

  11. 11.

    To quote just one of the scholars who prepared the change to define Reconciliation as a process, German Cultural Anthropologist Birgit Bräuchler in her book “The Cultural Dimension of Peace: Decentralization and Reconciliation in Indonesia” (Palgrave 2015) wrote: “In the past, Reconciliation has too often been perceived as as something peacebuilders are aiming for, a result. If is nowadays common sense that Reconciliation is not only the outcome, but foremost a long-term, deep, broad, inclusive, and voluntary process” (p. 10 with reference to David Bloomfield, Reconciliation: an Introduction. In: D. Bloomfield, T. Barnes and L. Huyse (eds.), Reconciliation after Violent Conflict: A Handbook. Stockholm: IDEA 2003, pp. 10–18. 12, 13).

  12. 12.

    Cf. Dietrich (2008). Only recently Dietrich changes the concept of many peaces as substantives into peace as a verb, see Dietrich (2021).

  13. 13.

    Wolfgang Dietrich & Wolfgang Stützl: “A call for many peaces”, in Schlaining Working Papers/7, Stadtschlaining 1997. Reprinted in : Wolfgang Dietrich, Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Norbert Koppensteiner (eds.), Schlüsseltexte der Friedensforschung, Wien/Berlin 2006, pp. 282–301.

  14. 14.

    The first publication underlining the transdisciplinary approach from JCRS was RIPAR 1. Wolfgang Dietrich speaks about the Trans-discipline Peace. Cf. Dietrich (2021), p. 2.

  15. 15.

    Cf. Dietrich (2021), pp. 16–18. 37–49.

  16. 16.

    Cf. Dietrich (2008), vol. 1, p. 411.

  17. 17.

    Dietrich (2008), p. 411.

  18. 18.

    Cf. Aleida Assmann, Formen des Vergessens. 3rd ed. Wallstein 2016.

  19. 19.

    Fanie du Toit (2018) underlined that in South Africa forgiveness was not the most important factor but recognition of interdependence cf. pp. 17–38.

  20. 20.

    To be published by: Francesco Ferrari, Martin Leiner, Zeina Barakat, Michael Sternberg, Boaz Hameiri (eds.), From Hearts of Stone to Hearts of Flesh, RIPAR 7, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2022.

  21. 21.

    Cf. AlDajani (2020), pp. 3–74.

  22. 22.

    Cf. Thomas Luckmann, Die unsichtbare Religion. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1991.

  23. 23.

    Thomas Hobbes (1679). Opera Latina, Vol. I. London. p. 86.

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Leiner, M. (2022). In Response to Wolfgang Dietrich’s Article About “Peace and Reconciliation Studies” or How to Catch a Unicorn?. In: AlDajani, I.M., Leiner, M. (eds) Reconciliation, Heritage and Social Inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08713-4_3

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