The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict [Hardcover]

What insights can we gain from the social sciences about the role memory plays in creating or re-creating the many conflicts threatening global peace in the twenty-first century? Indeed, can knowledge about the relationship between memory and conflict help resolve intergroup conflicts and heal individual hurts? This book presents a series of essays both theoretical and empirical that approach these questions from a variety of disciplines that will highlight a much-neglected aspect of one of the major problems facing the world today.PART I: INTRODUCTION Why Memories in Conflict?; E.Cairns & M.D.Roe Theoretical Overview of Memory and Conflict; P.Devine-Wright PART II: MEMORIES OF ABORIGINAL PASTS AND CURRENT CONFLICTS Reconciliation Between Black and White Australia: The Role of Social Memory: D.Mellor & D.Bretherton Cowlitz Indian Ethnic Identity, Social Memories, and One Hundred and Fifty Years of Conflict with the United States Government; M.D.Roe PART III: CONFLICTING MEMORIES AND TIME Collective Memory of Physical Violence: Its Contribution to the Culture of Violence; D.Bar-Tal Will the Germans Ever Be Forgiven? Memories of the Second World War Generations Later; L.Oppenheimer & I.Hakvoort PART IV: CONFLICTING MEMORIES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION History Teaching and the Perpetuation of Memories: The Northern Ireland Experience; K.Barton & A.McCully Memories of Recent Conflict and Forgiveness in Northern Ireland; F.McLernon, E.Cairns, C.Lewis & M.Hewstone Symbolic Closure through Memory, Reparation and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies; B.Hamber & R.Wilson PART V: CONCLUSION Memories in Conflict: Review and a Look to the Future; M.D.Roe & E.Cairns References IndexKEITH C. BARTON is Associate Professor in the Division of Teacher Education at the University of Cincinnati and has served as a visiting academic with the UNESC Programme in Education for Pluralism, Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Ulster, ColeraineALAN MCCULLY curlC%