Principles and Practises, Types of Post Violence, Study notes of Sociology

Download Principles and Practises, Types of Post Violence and more Study notes Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! The Sociology of Peace Processes Lecture 2 Types of Post Violence Society Overheads Sociological literatures on peace • The principles and practises surrounding reconciliation as a normative value, addressing the interpersonal and even spiritual grounds on which co-existence is feasible. • Conflict resolution and mediation techniques. • Truth-recovery procedures that follow peace settlements. • Restorative justice in post violence adjustments. • A case study approach of individual peace processes. Differences between post violence societies • Differ in their history of violence, both the scale of conflict and its nature, ranging from full-scale war to intermittent acts of communal violence. • Differ in who the victims were. Sometimes the violence was directed at the state, in other it was focused on members of other ethnic groups. • Differ in the lines of social cleavage that structured the communal violence (varying from ‘race’, ethnicity, religion, national origin and identity to political ideology). Types of post violence society Three types: ‘conquest’, ‘cartography’ and ‘compromise’. Three axes: Relational distance-closeness Refers to the extent to which former belligerents share common values and norms Spatial separation-territorial integrity Describes the degree to which former belligerents continue to share common land and nationhood Cultural capital-cultural annihilation Addresses the level of cultural and other resources possessed by former belligerents. docsity.com