Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities

ISBN-13: 9781032336756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 324 str.

Elazar Barkan; Constantin Goschler; James E. Waller

Opis

This book brings together a diverse range of international voices from academia, policymaking and civil society to connect historical dialogue with atrocity prevention discourse and provide insight into how conflict histories and historical memory act as dynamic forces, actively facilitating or deterring current and future conflict.

Spis treści

Introduction  Chapter 1 – Historical Dialogue and Mass Atrocities  Chapter 2 – Preventing Mass Atrocities: The Role of Conflict History in Risk, Response, and Resilience  Part I - Historical Commissions  Chapter 3 – Historical commissions in Germany since the 1990s: Potential for social and political conflict solving  Chapter 4 – Attempted Transitional Justice and Historical Dialogue: The Case of Israel's Or Commission  Chapter 5 – Historical Dialogue in Post-Conflict Kosovo  Chapter 6 – The Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" and the Ambivalence of Reconciliation and Conflict Prevention  Part II - Education  Chapter 7 – Common history textbooks as a tool of preventing mass atrocities  Chapter 8 – Dialogue in the Trenches: Confronting Political Narratives in Ugandan Secondary Schools  Part III - Museums  Chapter 9 – Is the Memory of War in Contemporary Europe Enhancing Historical Dialogue  Chapter 10 – Museums and Memorials as Sites of Dialogue: Historical Narratives, Mass Violence, and Atrocity Prevention  Chapter 11 – Exhibiting War to Understand Peace - how do military museums adjust to the need to foster international understanding and peaceful conflict resolution?  Part IV - Art and Visual Interventions  Chapter 12 – Witnessing the Past and the Present: Photography and Guatemala’s Fight for Historical Dialogue  Chapter 13 – "Daisy in the Dirt": Visualizing Women's Historical Injustices of War and Violence  Chapter 14 – Memory Encroachments and Re-Plotting the Past: Cartographies of Violence and Memory in Post-Atrocity Argentina, Germany, and the United States

O autorze

Elazar Barkan is Professor of International and Public Affairs, the Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration and of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, USA.

Constantin Goschler is Professor of Modern History at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

James E. Waller is Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Chair of that same department, at Keene State College, New Hampshire, USA.