Böcker av Marie Breen Smyth

This innovative text provides a much-needed critical introduction to terrorism. Terrorism and the war on terror has affected virtually every aspect of modern life, and a precise understanding of terrorism is now more important - and contentious - than ever.

Considers the problem of managing the unfinished business of a violent past in societies moving out of political violence. Truth Commissions are used to unearth the acts committed by the various protagonists. It focuses on the conditions which predispose - or prevent - embarkation on a truth recovery process, and the rationale for that process.