The Future of Historical Reconciliation Research

Irreconcilability seems to define both global politics and societal dynamics today, leading to a growing focus on reconciliation processes. While political science has long established reconciliation as a key area of research, especially since the 1990s, historians have engaged with it far less. Despite its obvious relevance to their discipline, as calls for reconciliation are always rooted in the past. In this episode of the GHIL podcast, host Kim Koenig and research fellow Pascale Siegrist talk to Christine Krüger, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Bonn, about her GHIL Lecture ‘Analyzing Reconciliation and Irreconcilability from a Historical Perspective: the example of Germany and Britain’. Together they discuss the potential of historical reconciliation research.