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In Search of Reconciliation and Peace in Indonesia

19.-20.07.2007

 

organised by

Indonesia Study Group

Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg

 

 

A number of Southeast Asian countries have been badly shaken in recent decades 
by religious, ethnic, social, political and economic conflicts. The search for 
reconciliation and peace is an important issue in the whole region. Promoting 
an interdisciplinary examination of one of the countries affected, Indonesia, 
this workshop goes beyond a mere political approach to reconciliation and 
offers new understandings of cultural reconciliation processes and factors, 
which both facilitate and inhibit reconciliation in different cultures. This 
will provide valuable insights not only for Indonesia, but for conflict 
situations much more broadly. 

 

The issues of conflict, conflict resolution and reconciliation have been on the 
agenda for most of the second half of the twentieth century in general. The 
rise of the new media has transformed conflicts into global spectacles: images 
of conflicts from all over the world are brought right into the users' homes, 
be it on TV or the Internet, in the newspaper or on the radio. Images of 
conflict seem to be much easier to convey on these channels than images of 
reconciliation and peace. As we all know: only bad news is news. Recent 
conflicts in South Africa, Rwanda and East Timor have given rise to a 
reconciliation toolkit of truth commissions and law enforcement, justice and 
human rights, forgiveness and amnesty. These mechanisms are supposed to be the 
means not only to stop conflict and violence, but also to reconcile warring 
parties and create sustainable peace. Due to the often limited success of these 
approaches, people and organisations involved in developing conflict solving 
strategies have started to think about the integration of cultural factors into 
the reconciliation process. Kevin Avruch argues (1998) that no conflict can be 
understood and analysed, let alone sustainably solved, without taking its 
cultural context into account. The workshop therefore aims to go beyond seeing 
reconciliation as a purely political process by exploring its socio-cultural 
contexts and promoting a more ethnographic reading of the reconciliation 
processes.

 

A lot has been said and written about violent conflict in Indonesia, 
investigating its different dimensions across disciplines. Unfortunately, 
reconciliation has caught much less attention by academics. Debates on 
reconciliation in Indonesia focus on human rights issues, justice and law 
enforcement and are heavily influenced by international NGOs and agencies such 
as the UN. This workshop strives to fill major gaps in reconciliation studies 
by exploring the cultural dimension of reconciliation in general and its 
specific forms in Indonesia. 

 

The workshop aims to invite scholars from different academic disciplines such 
as social anthropology, sociology, law, political science, history and others 
from Indonesia and abroad. We invite both empirical case studies based on 
original fieldwork and theoretical reflections to be presented at the workshop. 
The workshop will cover reconciliation issues that deal with conflicts on 
different scales, in different contexts, in different regions and in different 
phases of contemporary Indonesian history. The publication of selected papers 
of the workshop will make a unique and new contribution to understanding 'the 
other' dimension of reconciliation and different cultures of reconciliation. 

 

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

·        Cultural approaches to conflict resolution and reconciliation

·        Actors of reconciliation and different levels of reconciliation 
(government, local and international NGOs, media, religious organisations, 
grassroots organisations etc.)

·        Traditional conflict resolution mechanisms

·        Local narratives of reconciliation

·        Reconciliation, public sphere and civil society

·        Democratization, conflict and reconciliation

·        Spatial or territorial dimensions of reconciliation

·        Gender, ethnic and religious aspects of conflict and reconciliation

·        Regional case studies (including those from East Timor)

·        Comparative studies from beyond Indonesia

 

Call for Papers

Paper proposals including 250-word abstracts and a 5-line biosketch should be 
submitted to Dr Birgit Bräuchler (aribb@xxxxxxxxxx) by 15th December 2006. 
Successful applicants will be advised by 15th February 2007 and will be urged 
to send in a completed paper by June 1st. Some funding will be available for 
those in the Asian Region, post-graduate students, and others unable to fund 
themselves, depending on the number of workshop participants.

 

Contact Details

Further enquiries should be directed to Dr Birgit Bräuchler (aribb@xxxxxxxxxx), 
Dr Maribeth Erb (socmerb@xxxxxxxxxx), Dr Priyambudi Sulistiyanto 
(seasp@xxxxxxxxxx) or Dr Jamie Davidson (poldjs@xxxxxxxxxx).

 

Please visit the ARI events page for future updates:

http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=551

 

Literature cited:

Avruch, Kevin 1998: Culture and Conflict Resolution. Washington D.C.: United 
States Institute of Peace Press.

 


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