Jessie Barton Hronešová
Original and thought-provoking, Reconciliation by Stealth provides a unique approach to studying post-conflict justice and reconciliation, focusing on the inner workings of transitional justice discussions and how they can be managed to assist participants and victims.
Susan L. Woodward
Denisa Kostovicova expertly shows how much more local peace initiatives can achieve than internationally driven criminal tribunals, truth commissions, and even EU conditionality. In place of competitive victimhood and avoidance of identity politics, she shows how a local process based on fact-finding, ethnic identities, and open deliberation on war crimes can result in reconciliation, empathy, and even solidarity.
Roger Mac Ginty
This is an important book that focuses on the very real dilemmas of how to pursue justice and reconciliation after violent conflict. Based on extensive research and a deep knowledge of the context, Denisa Kostovicova puts forward an innovative and convincing argument on how difficult conversations can lead to reconciliation.
Eric Gordy
In this methodologically innovative study Denisa Kostovicova shows us why getting people from opposing sides to talk to one another constructively matters so much. This book illuminates how reconciliation involves the capacity to have an empathetic understanding for the experiences of others and, in this way, RECOM was a stealth success.
Susan L. Woodward
Denisa Kostovicova expertly shows how much more local peace initiatives can achieve than internationally driven criminal tribunals, truth commissions, and even EU conditionality. In place of competitive victimhood and avoidance of identity politics, she shows how a local process based on fact-finding, ethnic identities, and open deliberation on war crimes can result in reconciliation, empathy, and even solidarity.
Richard Caplan
Employing a range of impressive research methods, Kostovicova demonstrates how reconciliation in the aftermath of violent conflict can be achieved through public consultations about justice for war crimes. An original, rigorous and compelling study that challenges prevailing notions of transitional justice.
André Bächtiger
A splendid book that demonstrates that deliberative interethnic contact has the potential of overcoming divisions in post-conflict societies. Reconciliation by Stealth is essential for practitioners of transitional justice interested in how people talk to each other about war crimes matters for reconciliation.
