Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 963386092X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, creating collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that have emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts, such as Germany, Romania, Russia and others.
Remembrance, History, and Justice
Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 963386092X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, creating collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that have emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts, such as Germany, Romania, Russia and others.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 963386092X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, creating collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that have emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts, such as Germany, Romania, Russia and others.
Race and Remembrance
Author: Arthur L. Johnson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814333709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814333709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson.
Compensation in Practice
Author: Constantin Goschler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178533638X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Founded in 2000, the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” is one of the largest transitional justice initiatives in history: in cooperation with its international partner organizations, it has to date paid over 4 billion euros to nearly 1.7 million survivors of forced labour during the Nazi Era. This volume provides an unparalleled look at the Foundation’s creation, operations, and prospects after nearly two decades of existence, with valuable insights not just for historians but for a range of scholars, professionals, and others involved in human rights and reconciliation efforts.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178533638X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Founded in 2000, the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” is one of the largest transitional justice initiatives in history: in cooperation with its international partner organizations, it has to date paid over 4 billion euros to nearly 1.7 million survivors of forced labour during the Nazi Era. This volume provides an unparalleled look at the Foundation’s creation, operations, and prospects after nearly two decades of existence, with valuable insights not just for historians but for a range of scholars, professionals, and others involved in human rights and reconciliation efforts.
The Past Can't Heal Us
Author: Lea David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108495184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Lea David exposes the dangers and pitfalls of mandating memory in the name of human rights in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108495184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Lea David exposes the dangers and pitfalls of mandating memory in the name of human rights in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Law, History, and Justice
Author: Annette Weinke
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789201063
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789201063
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.
Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
Author: Martina Fischer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317529561
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Scholars and practitioners alike agree that somehow the past needs to be addressed in order to enable individuals and collectives to rebuild trust and relationships. However, they also continue to struggle with critical questions. When is the right moment to address the legacies of the past after violent conflict? How can societies address the past without deepening the pain that arises from memories related to the violence and crimes committed in war? How can cultures of remembrance be established that would include and acknowledges the victims of all sides involved in violent conflict? How can various actors deal constructively with different interpretations of facts and history? Two decades after the wars, societies in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia – albeit to different degrees – are still facing the legacies of the wars of the 1990s on a daily basis. Reconciliation between and within these societies remains a formidable challenge, given that all three countries are still facing unresolved disputes either at a cross-border level or amongst parallel societies that persist at a local community level. This book engages scholars and practitioners from the regions of former Yugoslavia, as well as international experts, to reflect on the achievements and obstacles that characterise efforts to deal with the past. Drawing variously on empirical studies, theoretical discussions, and practical experience, their contributions offer invaluable insights into the complex relationship between transitional justice and conflict transformation.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317529561
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Scholars and practitioners alike agree that somehow the past needs to be addressed in order to enable individuals and collectives to rebuild trust and relationships. However, they also continue to struggle with critical questions. When is the right moment to address the legacies of the past after violent conflict? How can societies address the past without deepening the pain that arises from memories related to the violence and crimes committed in war? How can cultures of remembrance be established that would include and acknowledges the victims of all sides involved in violent conflict? How can various actors deal constructively with different interpretations of facts and history? Two decades after the wars, societies in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia – albeit to different degrees – are still facing the legacies of the wars of the 1990s on a daily basis. Reconciliation between and within these societies remains a formidable challenge, given that all three countries are still facing unresolved disputes either at a cross-border level or amongst parallel societies that persist at a local community level. This book engages scholars and practitioners from the regions of former Yugoslavia, as well as international experts, to reflect on the achievements and obstacles that characterise efforts to deal with the past. Drawing variously on empirical studies, theoretical discussions, and practical experience, their contributions offer invaluable insights into the complex relationship between transitional justice and conflict transformation.
The Performance of Memory as Transitional Justice
Author: S. Elizabeth Bird
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780682624
Category : Collective memory
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on case studies spanning time and geography from the Spanish to the Nigerian civil wars, to government repression in Argentina and genocidal policies in Guatemala and Rwanda and, finally, to forced population removal in Australia and Israel, this collection represents a focused attempt to come to grips with some of the strategies used to publicly engage with traumatic memory work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780682624
Category : Collective memory
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on case studies spanning time and geography from the Spanish to the Nigerian civil wars, to government repression in Argentina and genocidal policies in Guatemala and Rwanda and, finally, to forced population removal in Australia and Israel, this collection represents a focused attempt to come to grips with some of the strategies used to publicly engage with traumatic memory work.
Post-Communist Transitional Justice
Author: Lavinia Stan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107065569
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Explores how the former communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107065569
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Explores how the former communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes.
Transitional and Retrospective Justice in the Baltic States
Author: Eva-Clarita Pettai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107049490
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
An empirically rich and conceptually informed study of the politics of transitional justice in post-communist Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107049490
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
An empirically rich and conceptually informed study of the politics of transitional justice in post-communist Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Yellow Star, Red Star
Author: Jelena Subotić
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501742418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, Jelena Subotić shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in, and contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union's own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes of communism. Yellow Star, Red Star presents in-depth accounts of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania, and extends the discussion to other East European states. The book demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their contemporary "ontological insecurities"—insecurities about their identities, about their international status, and about their relationships with other international actors. As Subotić concludes, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities in a precarious and uncertain world.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501742418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession to the European Union, Jelena Subotić shows, East European states were required to adopt, participate in, and contribute to the established Western narrative of the Holocaust. This requirement created anxiety and resentment in post-communist states: Holocaust memory replaced communist terror as the dominant narrative in Eastern Europe, focusing instead on predominantly Jewish suffering in World War II. Influencing the European Union's own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to reconcile these two memories by pursuing new strategies of Holocaust remembrance. The memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust have been appropriated to represent crimes of communism. Yellow Star, Red Star presents in-depth accounts of Holocaust remembrance practices in Serbia, Croatia, and Lithuania, and extends the discussion to other East European states. The book demonstrates how countries of the region used Holocaust remembrance as a political strategy to resolve their contemporary "ontological insecurities"—insecurities about their identities, about their international status, and about their relationships with other international actors. As Subotić concludes, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe has never been about the Holocaust or about the desire to remember the past, whether during communism or in its aftermath. Rather, it has been about managing national identities in a precarious and uncertain world.