Asia-Pacific between Conflict and Reconciliation

Translating the Western concept of reconciliation into a universal idiom

Asia, so often seen from a Eurocentric perspective as exotic, other and different, is now manifestly an economic and political powerhouse. Shaped by the West, it is now playing its part in shaping the West.The third volume in the RIPAR series on Societies in Transition turns its focus on reconciliation to Asia-Pacific. Case studies are drawn from New Zealand, Australia, Korea, Japan, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and China, including comparative case studies from Central Asia, East Asia and Germany and the U.S.Contributions by Jude Lal Fernando, Leo D. Lefebure, Martin Leiner, Liu Liangjian, Seiko Mimaki. Ann-Sophie Schöpfel, Sentot Setyasiswanto, Christoph Sperfeldt, Deborah Stevens, Bo-Hyuk Suh, Priyambudi Sulistiyanto, Farrah Tek, Phillip Tolliday, Annette Weinke and Maung Maung Yin.

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Dong-Choon Kim is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Director of the Institute of Democracy at Sung-Kong-Hoe University in Seoul. Maria Palme, M.A., is Research Assistant at the Jena-Center for Reconciliation Studies at the University of Jena. Dr. Phillip Tolliday is Senior Lecturer in the School of Theology for Charles Sturt University and Academic Dean at St. Barnabas' College.