Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory : transnational initiatives in the 20th century / Edited by Birgit Schwelling.

Contents: Transnational civil society's contribution to reconciliation: an introduction / Birgit Schwelling -- "A question of humanity in its entirety": Armin T. Wegner as intermediary of reconciliation between Germans and Armenians in interwar German civil society / Charlton Payne -- Mea culpas, negotiations, apologias: revisiting the "apology" of Turkish intellectuals / Ayda Erbal -- Soldiers' reconciliation: René Cassin, the International Labour Office, and the search for human rights / Jay Winter -- "A blessed act of oblivion" : human rights, European unity and postwar reconciliation / Marco Duranti -- Franco-German rapprochement and reconciliation in the ecclesial domain: the meeting of bishops in Bühl (1949) and the Congress of Speyer (1950) / Ulrike Schröber -- A right to irreconcilability? Oradour-sur-Glane, German-French relations and the limits of reconciliation after World War II / Andea Erkenbrecher -- From atonement to peace? Aktion Sühnezeichen, German-Israeli relations and the role of youth in reconciliation discourse and practice / Christiane Wienand -- Apologising for colonial violence: the documentary film Regresso a Wiriyamu, transitional justice, and Portuguese-Mozambican decolonisation / Robert Stock -- Facing postcolonial entanglement and the challenge of responsibility: actor constellations between Namibia and Germany / Reinhart Kössler -- Political reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry / Melinda Sutton -- From truth to reconciliation: the global diffusion of truth commissions / Anne K. Krüger -- About the authors