ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the myriad influences that culture contributes to an individual's or group's relationship to the past. This exploration of the past includes distinguishing between history and memory, understanding individual and collective remembrance, describing temporal orientation, and immediate and long-term relationships to time across cultures. It provides an overview of how these factors and their linked cultural values may impact conflict between parties. Specifically, it assesses how to incorporate these considerations into a lens from which mediators can view conflict and assist parties in reaching resolution by offering suggested approaches and methods from which to work when addressing the past.
