Coming to Terms with a Dark Past: How Post-Conflict Societies Deal with History

Coming to Terms with a Dark Past How Post-Conflict Societies Deal with History Finland, South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina are each burdened by memories of a civil war, between either social classes, racial groups or ethnic communities.History wars have followed the conflicts and been fought on the arenas of popular rhetoric, public memory, that is, monuments, museums and commemoration rituals, and history education. This book studies how the parties to these conflicts have attributed guilt to ?the others? and victimhood to ?us? in each country, and compares their respective memory politics and education strategies. The author draws on the potential on ?history from below? activities and multiperspectival history lessons.Coming to Terms with a Dark Past: How Post-Conflict Societies Deal with History 1st Edition is written by Sirkka Ahonen and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Coming to Terms with a Dark Past are 9783653023596, 3653023599 and the print ISBNs are 9783631639023, 3631639023.