Staging peace: Televised ceremonies of reconciliation

EXCERPTED FROM Connecting Peace , Justice , and Reconciliation

West Papua: Reconciliation as a Way of Promoting Peace Dialogue

Peace, reconciliation and a shared future: a policy shift or more of the same?

Developments in the late 1990s, including paramilitary cease-fires and the advent (albeit, short-lived) of devolved Government, offered a new dispensation from which to appraise the community relations problem in Northern Ireland and advocate policy action. This paper considers an emergent policy framework entitled A Shared Future. Drawing on the experience of delivering better relations throug...

Layered Analysis of Security Ceremonies

A security ceremony expands a security protocol with everything that is considered out of band for it. Notably, it incorporates the user, who, according to their belief systems and cultural values, may be variously targeted by social engineering attacks. This makes ceremonies complex and varied, hence the need for their formal analysis aimed at their rigorous understanding. Formal analysis in t...

The Season for Peace: Reconciliation in a Despotic Species (Lemur catta)

However despotic a social group may be, managing conflicts of interest is crucial to preserve group living benefits, mainly based on cooperation. In despotic groups, post-conflict management via reconciliation (the first post-conflict reunion between former opponents) can occur, even if conciliatory rates are considerably different. Lemur catta is defined as a despotic species because groups ar...