TY - BOOK ED - Schwelling, Birgit AB - How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors – from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations – have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion. DO - 10.14361/transcript.9783839419311 ID - OAPEN ID: 627786 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 979971394 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31460 KW - History KW - History and Memory KW - War and Society KW - Reconciliation KW - Armenian Genocide KW - Franco-German Relations KW - Human Rights KW - Contemporary History KW - Memory Culture KW - Politics KW - Globalization KW - Civil Society KW - Political Science KW - Cultural Studies KW - Israel KW - Truth and reconciliation commission L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31460/1/627786.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31460/1/627786.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31460/1/627786.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31460/1/627786.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38284 PB - transcript Verlag PP - Bielefeld, Germany PY - 2012-10-15 SN - 9783837619317 TI - Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory : Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century ER -