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Latin America Between Conflict and Reconciliation
Author(s): Martin Leiner (Author, Editor), Susan Flamig
- Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
- Publication Date: 18 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 3525560117
- ISBN-13: 9783525560112
Book Description
In the last decades, many countries in Latin America underwent a transition from dictatorship to democracy. Truth commissions were an essential instrument of uncovering politically motivated crimes and serious human rights violations. However, in many cases, truth came without justice, perpetrators were not held accountable, and the reparation policy was rather restrictive. Susan Flamig and Martin Leiner address the issue from a transdisciplinary perspective and focus on the past shaped by fierce conflicts but also by attempts of fostering reconciliation. They also look at reconciliation still to come.
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About the Author
Dr. theol. Martin Leiner ist Professor fÔr Systematische Theologie mit Schwerpunkt Ethik an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
