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

• Main Author: Jankowitz, Sarah E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
• Subjects: 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' illuminat...

Table of Contents:

• 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.