Can we learn from comparing violent conflicts and reconciliation processes?

for a sociology of conflict and reconciliation going beyond sociology

Nicos Trimikliniotis

pp. 203-217

in: Carmel Borg, Michael Grech (eds), Lorenzo Milani's culture of peace, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Abstract

This chapter attempts to provide a basic framework for a sociology of ethnic conflict and reconciliation in deeply divided societies that have suffered from ethnic-related violence.¹ Despite the specialized knowledge and literature on the subject, ethnic conflict and reconciliation has received relatively little attention in sociological debates.