Weaponising unresolved pasts: The impact of victimhood narratives on societal reconciliation in Spain and the Basque Country in the aftermath of ETA MA Thesis Kateřina Žejdlová E-mail:
[email protected] MA International Relations, Global Conflict in the Modern Era Leiden University / Universiteit Leiden Faculty of Humanities January 2019 Thesis supervisor: Dr. Eric Storm Word count: 14,985 Contents: Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Literature review ...................................................................................................................... 4 Reconciliation in Spain and the Basque Country .......................................................... 5 Victimhood in conflict and reconciliation ..................................................................... 7 I. The Basque Case in Context: Nationalism, narratives of violence and peace? ......... 9 I.I. Euskadi ta Askatasuna: Violent manifestation of nationalism ......................................... 9 I.II. When the violence causes silence: Violent legacies and reconciliation ......................... 11 The clash of narratives ................................................................................................ 11 After ETA: Rest in peace? ............................................................................................ 13 II. Conceptualisation of victimhood in the Basque Country and Northern Ireland ... 17