DEALING WITH THE PAST
INCORE SUMMER SCHOOL 2002 READING LIST

 

Compiled by Brandon Hamber

Course facilitators David Becker & Brandon Hamber

June 2002

 

Essential

Becker, D. (2001). Dealing with the consequences of Violence in Trauma Work.  Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management (Editors), Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation. Available at http://www.berghof-center.org

Buruma, I. (1999). The Joys and Perils of Victimhood.  In New York Review of Books, Nr. 8, April 1999.  

Danieli, Y. (Editor) (1998). International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. Plenum Press New York and London.

Fanon, F. (1991). Black Skin, White Masks.  London: Pluto Press.  First published 1952 in French under the title "Peau noire, masques blancs", Edititions du Seuil.

Hamber, B. (2001).  Does the truth heal? A psychological perspective on the political strategies for dealing with the legacy of political violence. In N. Biggar, (ed.), Burying the Past: making peace and doing justice after civil conflict (Washington, Georgetown University Press, 2001).

Hamber, B. & Wilson, R. (2002).  Symbolic Closure through memory, reparation and revenge in post-conflict societies.  Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.35-53.

Theissen, G. (2001). Supporting justice, Coexistence and Reconciliation after Armed Conflict: Strategies for dealing with the past. Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Managment (Editors), Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation. Available at http://www.berghof-center.org 

Young, A. (1995). The Harmony of Illusions -Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Princeton University Press, Princeton New Jersey

Krog, Antjie (1998). Country of My Skull. Johannesburg: Random House.

Highly recommended

Becker, D. (1995). The deficiency of the Concept of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder When Dealing with Victims of Human Rights violations.  In Kleber, R., Figley, C. & Gersons, B. (eds.) (1995 ) Beyond Trauma. Plenum Press, New York.

Biggar, N. (2001) (ed.). Burying the Past : Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict.  George Town University Press, Washington, USA.

Bergmann, M. & Jucovy, M. (eds.) (1982) Generations of the Holocaust. Basic Books Inc.: New York.

Chirot, D. & Seligman, M. (eds).  (2001) Ethnopolitical Warfare:  Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions.  American Psychological Association: Washington, USA.

Hamber, B. (1999) (ed).  Past Imperfect: Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland and Societies in Transition. INCORE - Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, Derry/Londonderry. See : http://www.brandonhamber/pubs_pastimperfect.html

Hamber, B. (2000).  Repairing the Irreparable: Dealing with the double-binds of making reparations for crimes of the past.  Ethnicity and Health, 5(3/4), pp.215-226.

Hayes, G (1998) We Suffer our Memories: Thinking about the past, healing and reconciliation.  American Imago, 55 (1), pp. 29-50.

Hayner, P. (2001).  Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity.  Routledge: New York & London.

Ignatieff, M (1998) The warrior’s honor: Ethnic war and the modern conscience.  London: Chatto & Windus.

Volkan, V. (1998).  Blood Lines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism.  Colorado: Westview Press / Perseus.

Weschler, L. (1990). A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers. New York: Pantheon.

Wilson, R. A. (2001).  The Politics Of Truth And Reconciliation In South Africa: Legitimizing The Post-Apartheid State. Law and Society Series, Cambridge University Press.

Recommended

Boraine, A. (2000).  A Country Unmasked:  South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  New York, USA: Oxford University Press.

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (1997).  Healing the Racial Divide? Personal Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 27 (4), South African Journal of Psychology, pp. 271-272.

Guelke, A. (1996).  Dissecting the South African miracle:  African parallels.  Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, 2, (1), Spring, 141-154.

Hamber, B.E. (1998).  The Burdens of Truth: An Evaluation of the Psychological Support Services and Initiatives undertaken by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  American Imago, Volume 55, Number 1, Spring 1998, pp.9-28. 

Hamber, B., Nageng, D. & O’Malley (1999).  Telling it like it is: Survivors’ perceptions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 25, Psychology in Society, pp. 18-42.

James, W. & Van de Vijver, L. (Eds.), (2000). After the TRC: Reflections on truth and reconciliation in South Africa.  Cape Town, South Africa: David Philip.

Kaminer, D., Stein, D.J. Mbanga, I. & Zungu-Dirwayi, N. (2001). ‘The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa: relation to psychiatric status and forgiveness among survivors of human rights abuses’, British Journal of Psychiatry (No. 178, 2001), pp. 373-7.

Minow, M. (1998) Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence. Boston: Beacon Press.

Orentlicher, D. (1991).  Settling accounts: the duty to prosecute human rights violations of a prior regime, Yale Law Journal (Vol. 100, 1991), pp. 2539-615.

Robben, A. & Suárez-Orosco, M. (eds) (2000). Cultures under Siege – Collective Violence and Trauma.  Cambridge University Press: New York.

Shuman, D.W. and McCall Smith, A. (2000). Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes: balancing legal, psychological and moral concerns.  Washington, DC, American Psychological Association, 2000.

Villa-Vicencio, C. & Verwoerd, W. (1999). Looking Back / Reaching Forward: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Retrospect. Cape Town: Juta Publishers.

Websites

CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet – Northern Ireland). Valuable resource of information and source material on the Northern Ireland conflict.  Address:  http://cain.ulst.ac.uk

Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation: Holds a wide variety of material about the South African Truth and Reconciliation, as well as papers and documents on societies in transition

Website Address:  http://www.csvr.org.za/research.htm

Chilean Truth Commission Rettig Report: This site contains the full text of the Report from the Chilean Truth Commission, the Rettig Report

Address: http://www.derechoschile.com/english/resour.htm

Chronology of Victim Related Issues in Northern Ireland. 

Address: http://www.brandonhamber/victimsni.html

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Latin America: Provides information about the Truth Commissions of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru. Address: http://www.derechos.org/koaga/iii/1/cuya.html

Truth Commissions.Org:  Research on past Truth Commissions is organised in a manner that is oriented towards decision making, to enable designers of future Commissions to identify the critical factors and potential solutions relevant to their societies. Address: http://www.truthcommission.org/

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