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This book focuses on the formal and informal reconciliation processes during conflict and post-conflict periods in various locations in the Asia-Pacific, and includes cases studies based on primary research conducted in countries such as Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Thailand, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands. It offers insights to further our understanding of the social and political processes of reconciliation in a region that has witnessed numerous armed conflicts, many of them perpetuating over generations. The book also draws lessons from the richness arising from diversity in terms of religious and cultural practices, social life, and forms of government and governance, and through the exploration of theories and practices of reconciliation in conflict and post-conflict contexts in the region. It provides useful reference material for researchers, academics, policy makers and students working in the areas of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, reconciliation, social cohesion, development, transitional justice and human rights in the Asia and Pacific region.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Reconciliation - A Tranformatory Process Across cultures and Societies.- Chapter 2. Victims and Perpetrators in Cambodia: Communities Moving towards Reconciliation on a Rocky Road.- Chapter 3. The Nexus Between Reintegration of EX-Combatants and Reconciliation in Nepal: A Social Capital Approach.- Chapter 4. Building National Unity, Reconciliation and Peace in the Solomon Islands: The Missing Link.- Chapter 5. Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste: Reflections Ten Years On.- Chapter 6. Sri Lanka´s Developmental Path to Reconciliation: Narrative and Counter-Narratives from the Margins.- Chapter 7. The Spatial Dimensions of Conflict: Initiating the Process of Reconciliation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.- Chapter 8. Transcending Conflict, Transforming Relations: Emerging from Violence in Assam, North East India.- Chapter 9. Religious Leadership and the Forging of an Enduring Narrative of Peace in The Aftermath of the Bougainville Crisis.- Chapter 10. Moving Towards Amicability: An Insider Peacebuilding Platform as a Means to Reconciliation in the Patani Conflict in the Deep South of Thailand.- Chapter 11. Reconciliation in Australia? Dreaming Beyond the Cult of Forgetfulness.- Chapter 12. Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific: A Concluding Review of Ten Case Studies.

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