The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Why Memories in Conflict?

      • Ed Cairns, Mícheál D. Roe

      Pages 3-8

   3. A Theoretical Overview of Memory and Conflict

      • Patrick Devine-Wright

      Pages 9-33

3. Memories of Aboriginal Pasts and Current Conflicts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Reconciliation between Black and White Australia: the Role of Social Memory

      • David Mellor, Di Bretherton

      Pages 37-54

   3. Cowlitz Indian Ethnic Identity, Social Memories and 150 Years of Conflict with the United States Government

      • Mícheál D. Roe

      Pages 55-74

4. Conflicting Memories and Time

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Collective Memory of Physical Violence: its Contribution to the Culture of Violence

      • Daniel Bar-Tal

      Pages 77-93

   3. Will the Germans Ever Be Forgiven? Memories of the Second World War Four Generations Later

      • Louis Oppenheimer, Ilse Hakvoort

      Pages 94-103

5. Conflicting Memories and Conflict Resolution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. History Teaching and the Perpetuation of Memories: the Northern Ireland Experience

      • Keith C. Barton, Alan McCully

      Pages 107-124

   3. Memories of Recent Conflict and Forgiveness in Northern Ireland

      • Frances McLernon, Ed Cairns, Christopher Alan Lewis, Miles Hewstone

      Pages 125-143

   4. Symbolic Closure through Memory, Reparation and Revenge in post-Conflict Societies

      • Brandon Hamber, Richard A. Wilson

      Pages 144-168

6. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Memories in Conflict: Review and a Look to the Future

      • Mícheál D. Roe, Ed Cairns

      Pages 171-180

7. Back Matter

   Pages 181-201

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What insights can we gain from the social sciences about the role memory plays in creating or re-creating the many conflicts threatening global peace in the twenty-first century? Indeed, can knowledge about the relationship between memory and conflict help resolve intergroup conflicts and heal individual hurts? This book presents a series of essays both theoretical and empirical that approach these questions from a variety of disciplines that will highlight a much-neglected aspect of one of the major problems facing the world today.

• conflict
• conflict resolution
• conflicts
• culture
• government
• identity
• knowledge
• memory
• social science
• state
• teaching
• war

• University of Ulster, UK

  Ed Cairns

• Seattle Pacific University, USA

  Mícheál D. Roe

KEITH C. BARTON is Associate Professor in the Division of Teacher Education at the University of Cincinnati and has served as a visiting academic with the UNESC Programme in Education for Pluralism, Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Ulster, Coleraine ALAN MCCULLY currently lectures in Education at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, where he contributes to pre-service teacher education and has responsibility for a masters course in Education and Contemporary Society Previously, he had twenty years' experience teaching history and social studies in a Northern Ireland High School PATRICK DEVINE-WRIGHT studied psychology at Trinity College, Dublin, before pursuing postgraduate studies in environmental and social psychology at the University of Surrey RICHARD A. WILSON is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom LOUIS OPPENHEIMER is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology (University of Amsterdam) ILSE HAKVOORT is a visiting researcher at the Department of Education at Göteborg University, Sweden FRANCES MCLERNON is a Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland DAVID MELLOR is a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia DI BRETHERTON is Director of the International Conflict Resolution Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia BANNY BAR-TAL teaches in the School of Education at the University of Tel Aviv. Heis former President of the International School of Political Psychology and recipient of the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize BRANDON HAMBER a Clinical Psychologist, was co-ordinator of the Transition and Reconciliation Unit at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa PROFESSOR MILES HEWSTONE is a fellow of New College Oxford and Lecturer in Social Psychology CHRISTOPHER LEWIS is a Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Ulster

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