Sociology of Compromise after Conflict

John D. Brewer is Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.Bernadette C. Hayes is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Conflict, Transition, and Peace Research in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, UK.Francis Teeney is Honorary Research Fellow in the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

• Chapter 1. Towards a Sociology of Compromise; John D. Brewer.- Chapter 2. Victims and Compromise in Northern Ireland; Katrin Dudgeon and John D. Brewer.- Chapter 3. On Compromise Mediators in Victim Support Groups; Laura Graham.- Chapter 4. Barriers to Trust in a ‘Peace Process Generation’; Aimee Smith.- Chapter 5. Forgiveness and the Practice of Compromise in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Natascha Mueller-Hirth.- Chapter 6. Peace-Religiosity and Forgiveness Amongst War Victims in Sri Lanka; Shirley Lal Wijesinghe and John D Brewer.- Chapter 7. The Road to Compromise in Sri Lanka; Bernadette Hayes and John D Brewer.- Chapter 8. Compromise without Virtue; Rachel Anderson.- Chapter 9.  Religious Emotions and Forgiveness in the Context of the Peace Process in Colombia; Sandra M. Rios Oyola.- Conclusion: An afterword on the Sociology of Compromise; John D Brewer.