The Order of Victimhood Violence, Hierarchy and Building Peace in Northern Ireland /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jankowitz, Sarah E. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
• Θέματα: Victimology.; Peace.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; Violence.; Crime.; Peace Studies.; Criminal Justice.; Violence and Crime.; Conflict Studies.

 This book explores how the construction and contestation of victims in societies emerging from conflict impact processes of peacebuilding. It locates its inquiry in Northern Ireland where highly politicized, unresolved narratives of violence and a so-called 'hierarchy of victims' illuminate inherent paradoxes of victimhood in intergroup conflict. The author critiques how mechanisms designed to address the legacy of conflict often reify exclusive 'victim' and 'perpetrator' identities and obscure complex harm. Adopting an interdisciplinary lens, the book examines how the image of the ideal victim interacts with intergroup processes in a polarizing and intractable victim-perpetrator paradigm. The analysis of these issues in Northern Ireland suggests that exclusive policies and mechanisms reinforce rather than repair societal divisions, and that inclusive, complex approaches to victimhood are necessary to build sustainable peace. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of peace studies, transitional justice and criminology. 

 1. Introduction: Victimhood, Violence and Northern Ireland -- 2. Dealing with the Past -- 3. The Social Construction of Victimhood and Complex Victims -- 4. The Victim-Perpetrator Paradigm -- 5. Hierarchies of Victims -- 6. Hierarchies, Division and Exclusion -- 7. Conclusion: Towards Thicker Reconciliation.