Kevin P. Clements is Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand and the Director of Toda Peace Institute, Japan.

SungYong Lee is Associate Professor of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

1. Introduction Kevin P. Clements and SungYong Lee Part I: Reconciliation: Concepts and Approaches 2. Promoting Reconciliation: Going Back to Basics Kevin P. Clements 3. Behavioural Peacebuilding: Ensuring Sustainable Reconciliation Mari Fitzduff 4. Interreligious Dialogue and the Path to Reconciliation Mohammed Abu-Nimer 5. Towards Reconciliation culture(s) in Asian Buddhist Societies? Chaiwat Satha-Anand 6. Preventing Violence and Promoting Active Bystandership and Peace and Conflict Ervin Staub 7. No Peace without Trust: The Trust and Conflict Map as a Tool for Reconciliation Mariska Kappmeier, Chiara Venanzetti and J.M. Inton-Campbell Part II: Reconciliation in Practice 8. The Humanity of the Dead: Rethinking National Reconciliation in Contemporary Timor-Leste Damian Grenfell 9. Tales of Progress: Creating Inclusive Reconciliation Narratives Post-Conflict Caitlin Mollica 10. Between forgiveness and revenge: The reconstruction of social relationship in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia SungYong Lee 11. Competitive Victimhood, Reconciliation and Intergenerational Responsibility Ria Shibata 12. Legitimising peace: Representations of victimhood and reconciliation in the narratives of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland Rachel Rafferty 13. Modelling Reconciliation and Peace Processes: Lessons from Syrian War Refugees and World War 2 Raymond F. Paloutzian, Zeynep Sagir and F. LeRon Shults 14. Conclusion SungYong Lee and Kevin P. Clements

This edited volume examines the group dynamics of social reconciliation in conflict-affected societies by adopting ideas developed in social psychology and the everyday peace discourse in peace and conflict studies.
The book revisits the intra- and inter-group dynamics of social reconciliation in conflict-affected societies, which have been largely marginalised in mainstream peacebuilding debates. By applying social psychological perspectives and the discourse of everyday peace, the chapters explore the everyday experience of community actors engaged in social and political reconciliation. The first part of the volume introduces conceptual and theoretical studies that focus on the pros and cons of state-level reconciliation and their outcomes, while presenting theoretical insights into dialogical processes upon which reconciliation studies can develop further. The second part presents a series of empirical case studies from around the world, which examine the process of social reconciliation at community levels through the lens of social psychology and discourse analysis.
This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, social psychology, discourse analysis and international relations in general.