This paper will focus on the readiness, willingness or subjective potential of a society and its members to accept ideas and actions that promote and lead towards reconciliation, and to refuse opposite information and actions that fuel a confl ictive world view. This subjective potential is an important factor that can inspire authors to pay attention to the more psychological or subjective asp...

Pre- and post-independence Zimbabwe has been marred by extreme political violence gross human rights violations. This ranges from Chimoio Nyadzonya massacres in the 1970s, Gukurahundi of early 1980s since 2000, unprecedented that characterised elections country. Resultantly, witnessed peace-building processes frameworks aimed at ending episodes politically motivated violence. paper analyses how...

Modern rich digital media (such as interactive systems with audio and video as well as text) have not been robustly deployed as a tool in the processes of peace-building, healing and reconciliation in nations emerging from civil conflict. This article studies the use of rich digital media in Liberia, a country that has only recently emerged from a protracted and intense civil war. The authors d...

With the end of the Cold War, a large number of countries in the developing world emerged from civil conflict or another form of chaos in the early 1990s. While Cold War related conflicts winded down, a number of ethnic conflicts erupted, and several military interventions took place. Interventions were justified either for humanitarian purposes, as in the Balkans and several countries in Afric...

Abstract The Cyprus conflict is usually described as one between a majority Greek Cypriot and minority Turkish population, with their opposing visions of the island’s future. In that conflict, more than 200,000 Cypriots from both these communities were displaced 1958 1974. Lost in this standard narrative, however, are conflict’s other ‘Others’: smaller Maronite, Armenian, Latin, Roma population...

South Africa’s transition to a democracy — characterized by a liberal constitution, a bill of rights, and attempts to pursue reconciliation rather than revenge — has been widely admired as a paradigm shift in human relationships from seemingly inevitable conflict to a negotiated peace. The challenge of narrowing racial disparities in health care is a formidable one for the new government. 1,2 T...