Burying the past : making peace and doing justice after civil conflict / Nigel Biggar, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must We Choose? / Nigel Biggar -- Ch. 2. Where and When in Political Life Is Justice Served by Forgiveness? / Donald Shriver -- Ch. 3. Politics and Forgiveness / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Ch. 4. The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and Normative Issues / Tuomas Forsberg -- Ch. 5. Innovating Responses to the Past: Human Rights Institutions / Martha Minow -- Ch. 6. National and Community Reconciliation: Competing Agendas in South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Hugo van der Merwe -- Ch. 7. Putting the Past in Its Place: Issues of Victimhood and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland's Peace Process / Marie Smyth -- Ch. 8. Does the Truth Heal? A Psychological Perspective on Political Strategies for Dealing with the Legacy of Political Violence / Brandon Hamber -- Ch. 9. Passion, Constraint, Law, and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean Democracy / Alexandra Barahona de Brito --

Ch. 10. War, Peace, and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala / Rachel Sieder -- Ch. 11. Restorative Justice in Social Context: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Charles Villa-Vicencio -- Ch. 12. Rwanda: Dealing with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Context of Armed Conflict and Failed Political Transition / Stef Vandeginste -- Ch. 13. Northern Ireland: Burying the Hatchet, Not the Past / Terence McCaughey -- Concluding Remarks / Nigel Biggar.