A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation

This book discusses the difficulties arising from civil conflict and repression, and how to proceed in repairing political relationships within transitional societies.

In this book, Colleen Murphy analyses the difficulties for political relationships which arise from civil conflict and repression. She proposes a new normative model of political relationships and highlights the complex changes required to transform and repair political relationships in transitional societies.Following extended periods of conflict or repression, political reconciliation is indispensable to the establishment or restoration of democratic relationships and critical to the pursuit of peacemaking globally. In this book, Colleen Murphy offers an innovative analysis of the moral problems plaguing political relationships under the strain of civil conflict and repression. Focusing on the unique moral damage that attends the deterioration of political relationships, Murphy identifies the precise kinds of repair and transformation that processes of political reconciliation ought to promote. Building on this analysis, she proposes a normative model of political relationships. A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation delivers an original account of the failure and restoration of political relationships, which will be of interest to philosophers, social scientists, legal scholars, policy analysts, and all those who are interested in transitional justice, global politics, and democracy.