Analysis of the concepts of reconstruction, resolution and reconciliation from the postulates of the TRANSCEND Research School for peace
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https://doi.org/10.15359/rldh.27-1.2Keywords:
Reconciliation, social conflict, Armenian Genocide, victim, perpetrator.Abstract
This article aims to analyze the Theory of Reconciliation proposed by the TRANSCEND School of Peace Research. A preliminary approach to the topic allows to suggest the following question: Which is object of reconciliation? The answer to this question will allow the conceptualization of reconciliation as a dispute intervention process who promotes dialogue and peace building with respect to those social relations where there has been an episode of violence and the relationship between the parties has broken, reaching diverse dimensions of social conflict (micro, meso, macro, mega and meta levels).
Finally, it will be exposed how reconciliation allows to demonstrate that social relations are dynamic, flexible and sensitive to the variables of time, space and place, as well as the conflicts. This leads to affirm that every controversy that has escalated to the point of generating violence causing a rupture in the relationship can also become peaceful; this refers to the hopeful vision of reconciliation.
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