The sociology of compromise after conflict

This volume introduces a new and original sociological conceptualisation of compromise after conflict and is based on six years of study amongst victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka, with case studies from Sierra Leone and Colombia.

A sociological approach to compromise is contrasted with approaches in Moral and Political Philosophy and is evaluated for its theoretical utility and empirical robustness with in-depth interview data from victims of conflicts around the globe.

The individual chapters are written to illustrate, evaluate and test the conceptualisation using the victim data, and an afterword reflects on the new empirical agenda in victim research opened up by a sociological approach to compromise.