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The interventions of the global reconciliation coalition and the proliferation of the global discourse in Sierra Leone The interventions of the global reconciliation coalition and the proliferation of the global discourse in Sierra Leone
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Introducing the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission for Sierra Leone Introducing the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission for Sierra Leone
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The interventions of the global reconciliation coalition in the planning and implementation stages of the SLTRC The interventions of the global reconciliation coalition in the planning and implementation stages of the SLTRC
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Reconciliation through truth-telling? The technologisation of reconciliation in Sierra Leone Reconciliation through truth-telling? The technologisation of reconciliation in Sierra Leone
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The global technology of reconciliation and local resistance The global technology of reconciliation and local resistance
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The making of Sierra Leoneans as victims and perpetrators of past human rights violations The making of Sierra Leoneans as victims and perpetrators of past human rights violations
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Rebels, soldiers and civilian collaborators: the subject positions of the discourse on the war Rebels, soldiers and civilian collaborators: the subject positions of the discourse on the war
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Producing and naturalising victims and perpetrators of past human rights violations Producing and naturalising victims and perpetrators of past human rights violations
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Becoming a subject: the interpellation of individuals and groups as victims and perpetrators of human rights violations Becoming a subject: the interpellation of individuals and groups as victims and perpetrators of human rights violations
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Needs instead of claims: reconciliation and the neutralisation of political demands and identities Needs instead of claims: reconciliation and the neutralisation of political demands and identities
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Conclusion: the performance of reconciliation in Sierra Leone Conclusion: the performance of reconciliation in Sierra Leone
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Notes Notes
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Bringing reconciliation to Sierra Leone: the global reconciliation discourse and its local performance
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Published:March 2013
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Abstract
Chapter 5 moves from the global to the local level and explores how the global constructions of reconciliation are brought to a local post-conflict situation and how they perform there. Focusing on the example of Sierra Leone, the chapter shows how the activities of global reconciliation agents were crucial for shaping the local reconciliation process according to the global standards, despite some local resistance. Once the global constructions shaped the local understanding of reconciliation, the reconciliation discourse performed by producing a particular ‘reconciliation reality’ in the country. The reconciliation discourse constructed Sierra Leone‘s post-war society as the ‘victims’ and ‘perpetrators’ of past human rights violations, which are in need of reconciliation and healing. This re-interpretation must not be understood as a neutral or innocent process, however. Rather, the reconciliation discourse thereby overwrote and neutralized the polarized identities that had emerged from the narrative on the civil war, such as ‘rebel’, ‘soldier’, or ‘civilian collaborator’, and it also overwrote the political demands raised by these identities.
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