41 – Pacifications. Réconciliations (2)
Les articles de ce numéro invitent à la prudence et signalent les tensions entre des exigences morales et des contraintes politiques concomittantes de toute entreprise de pacification. La réconciliation se heurte aux impératifs souvent contradictoires de l’équilibre entre anciens ennemis…Avec des contributions concernant le Timor-oriental, les Harkis et l’Algérie et l’Intifada d’Al Aqsa.
Pacifications, Reconciliations. Pacifications and Reconciliations ? The articles in this issue are an incentive to prudence. They highlight the tensions, inseparable from any attempt to pacify social relations, between moral standards and political constraints. The principle of reconciliation ought to be considered both as an aim in itself and as a contributing factor to the stabilisation of peace. However, it constantly collides with the often contradictory imperatives of finding a suitable balance between former enemies. The political aim of these ambiguous processes of reconciliation is to create a space for bargaining and for political discussion both on ethical questions and on very practical institutional matters. This space, as far as it can be maintained, represents through its mere existence a radical transformation of the relations of enmity to be pacified. However, the violence and the profoundness of these latter relations call for reconciliation while simultaneously making it impossible.
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Timor-Oriental : le combat pour la paix et pour la réconciliation [Texte intégral]
