Official state recognition of colonial memories multiplied rather than appeased conflicts

Evidence

Ever since, lawsuits, court action, and appeals to the Constitutional Council have developed into a recurrent element of French ‘colonial memories’. Instead of appeasing or even ending the conflicts around the colonial past, the politics of official recognition have contributed to increasing and multiplying them. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1226

Categorization

• XREF: Strong parallel with the reader’s core research: state attempts to rationally/officially settle a hard-fought grievance can backfire and intensify, not resolve, the conflict.