Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory  Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century / 
Birgit Schwelling. 
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<br/><br/> 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 â€" from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations â€" 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History<br/>Social Science / Popular Culture<br/>History
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