Reconciliation and building a sustainable peace : competing worldviews in South Africa and beyond / Cathy Bollaert.

Reconciliation and building a sustainable peace : competing worldviews in South Africa and beyond / Cathy Bollaert.

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This book explores how competing worldviews impact upon intergroup relations and the building of sustainable peace in culturally diverse societies. It raises questions about what happens in a culturally diverse society when competing values and ways of interpreting reality collide, and what this means for peace-building and the goal of reconciliation. Moreover, it provides a valuable and necessary contribution to discussion around how peace-building interventions can become more sustainable if tied into local values, and embedded in a society's system of meaning-making. This book asks to what extent transitional policies speak to universal values and individualist societies, and asks what implications this may have for how they are implemented in collective societies with different values and forms of social organisation. It raises the question of cultural equality and transformation and whether or not this is something that needs to be addressed within peace-building theory. It argues that inculcating worldview into peace-building theory and practice is a vital part of restoring dignity and promoting healing among victims and formerly oppressed groups. This book, therefore, makes an important contribution to an under-researched topic by providing a deeper understanding of how identity and culture intersect with peace-building when seeking to build a sustainable peace.

Palgrave Macmillan,

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-03655-3

1 online resource (xx, 209 p.)

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10.1007/978-3-030-03655-3 doi

9783030036546

3030036545

9783030036553 (electronic bk.)

3030036553 (electronic bk.)

9783030036546

3030036545

Palgrave studies in compromise after conflict

Palgrave studies in compromise after conflict.