Includes index.

Contents : Introduction -- Part one : Reconciliation in theory : Forgiveness as righteousness -- Towards the healing of history : an exploration of the relationship between pardon and peace -- A dialectic of acknowledgment -- Part two : Reconciliation in practice : evaluating instruments and initiatives : Transitional justice in Morocco : lifting the veil on a hidden face -- Traditional justice and legal pluralism in transitional context : the case of Rwanda's Gacaca Courts -- Truth and the challenge of reconciliation in Guatemala -- Contact and culture : Mechanisms of reconciliation in schools in Northern Ireland and Israel -- What of reconciliation? traditional mechanisms of acknowledgment in Uganda -- A survey of reconciliation processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina : the gap between people and politics -- Tensions between human rights and politics of reconciliation : a South African case study -- Interethnic reconciliation in Lebanon : after the civil war -- Beyond coexisience : towards a working definition of reconciliation.