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  • 10 - Reconciliation

  • from Part II - Assessing Transitional Justice for Historical Abuses of Church and State
  • James Gallen, Dublin City University
  • Book:
    Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State
    Published online:
    23 March 2023
    Print publication:
    30 March 2023, pp 248-274
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    Chapter 10 argues the practices and discourses of reconciliation have tended to operate as a form of inappropriate and premature settlement or closure of the grievances of victim-survivors and their descendants. To encourage victim-survivors and a society to pursue reconciliation in the absence of addressing other elements of transitional justice may operate as a reaffirmation of the power structures of states and churches. While the experience of Canada and Australia contains an explicit reconciliation discourse and practice, in the absence of significant change in and imagination regarding power relationships in those societies, they join the United States, Ireland, and the United Kingdom in remaining deeply unreconciled societies. In addition, the reconciliation practice of the Catholic church regarding historical abuse demonstrates its inability to effectively self-critique in its processes of reconciliation.