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In the context of conflict resolution, remembrance is a crucial element of the healing process. It recognises that, as individuals and communities, we are and indeed live out our histories. What we remember is what we are. Equally important is the need to recognise that addressing our conflicted past is a long-term, complex and difficult task. We need to be aware of what remembering can and cannot deliver. The challenge for us, therefore, as individuals and as a society is not about the need to remember, but rather how to find creative ways of remembering that enable us to go forward as a society.
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McDowell, S., Braniff, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Commemoration as Conflict. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314857_1
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