Overview
- Builds on the survivors’ experiences to reexamine some entrenched ideas and mechanisms of transitional justice
- Combines a highly critical and theoretical view, with the practical aspect of transitional justice
- Uses the survivors’ well-being as a normative criterium to assess transitional mechanisms
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations (PPCE, volume 20)
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Fidèle Ingiyimbere is a Jesuit from Burundi. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Boston College, with special interest in political-social philosophy, although he also works on continental philosophy, especially in phenomenology focused on the French philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In theology, he earned an STL from Boston College, School of Theology and Ministry, with special interest in social ethics. His areas of research are human rights, transitional justice and peace building for societies emerging from social-political crises. He has published in both areas books and articles, and some of his publications are, Etre et Expression, an essay on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, Human Rights as Means for Peace: The Catholic Understanding of Human Rights and the Catholic Church in Burundi, and Domesticating Human Rights: A Reappraisal of their Cultural-Political Critiques and their Imperialistic use. After working at Arrupe College-University of Zimbabwe and Arrupe Jesuit University in Harare-Zimbabwe, he was a visiting lecturer at different universities in Bujumbura and an independent researcher based in Bujumbura-Burundi. Now he has been appointed Senior Lecturer at CERAP/Université Jésuite, Abidjan-Ivory Cost.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Virtues from Hell: Survivors of Conflicts and the Reconstruction-Reconciliation Processes
Authors: Fidèle Ingiyimbere
Series Title: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89173-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89172-5Published: 21 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89175-6Published: 22 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89173-2Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2352-8370
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 161
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Social Philosophy, International Relations, Philosophical Traditions