Making Peace with Your Enemy: Algerian, French, and South African Ex-Combatants

by Laetitia Bucaille and Lætitia Bucaille

Book Overview

Reconciliation between political antagonists who went to war against each other is not a natural process. Hostility toward an enemy only slowly abates and the political resolution of a conflict is not necessarily followed by the immediate pacification of society and reconciliation among individuals. Under what conditions can a combatant be brought to understand the motivations of his enemies, consider them as equals, and develop a new relationship,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812251105
• ISBN13: 9780812251104
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"