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The Sociology of Compromise after Conflict

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Offers a wealth of insights into how academics, practitioners and courts can tackle the difficulties faced by post-conflict societies
  • Focusses on Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Sierra Leone and Colombia
  • Draws upon six years of rich empirical data including interviews with first generation victims in societies emerging out of conflict
  • Speaks to scholars of sociology, criminology, victim studies, political science, and international relations

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict (PSCAC)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
  2. Towards a Sociology of Compromise

    • John D. Brewer
    Pages 1-29
  3. Victims and Compromise in Northern Ireland

    • Katrin Dudgeon, John D. Brewer
    Pages 31-49
  4. Peace Religiosity and Forgiveness Among War Victims in Sri Lanka

    • Shirley Lal Wijesinghe, John D. Brewer
    Pages 129-155
  5. The Road to Compromise in Sri Lanka

    • Bernadette C. Hayes, John D. Brewer
    Pages 157-178
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 257-279

About this book

This book introduces a new and original sociological conceptualization of compromise after conflict and is based on six-years of study amongst victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka, with case studies from Sierra Leone and Colombia. A sociological approach to compromise is contrasted with approaches in Moral and Political Philosophy and is evaluated for its theoretical utility and empirical robustness with in-depth interview data from victims of conflicts around the globe. The individual chapters are written to illustrate, evaluate and test the conceptualization using the victim data, and an afterword reflects on the new empirical agenda in victim research opened up by a sociological approach to compromise. This volume is part of a larger series of works from a programme advancing a sociological approach to peace processes with a view to seeing how orthodox approaches within International Relations and Political Science are illuminated by the application of the sociological imagination. 







Editors and Affiliations

  • Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

    John D. Brewer

About the editor

John D. Brewer is Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.


Bernadette C. Hayes is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Conflict, Transition, and Peace Research in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, UK.


Francis Teeney is Honorary Research Fellow in the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.



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