Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda

Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda
Author: Susanne Buckley-Zistel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2008-09-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230584039

Drawing on the concept of hermeneutics the book argues that the successes and setbacks of conflict transformation in Teso can be understood through analyzing the impact of memory, identity, closure and power on social change and calls for a comprehensive effort of dealing with the past in war-torn societies.

Israeli Identity, Thick Recognition and Conflict Transformation

Israeli Identity, Thick Recognition and Conflict Transformation
Author: L. Strombom
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137301511

The divisive and malleable nature of history is at its most palpable in situations of intractable conflict between nations or peoples. This book explores the significance of history in informing the relationship between warring parties through the concept of thick recognition and by exploring its relevance specifically in relation to Israel.

Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts

Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts
Author: Des O'Rawe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137439556

Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern cities such as Berlin, Belfast, Bilbao, Beirut, Derry, Skopje, Sarajevo, Tunis, Johannesburg and Harare. Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory investigates how the memory of conflict can be inscribed in historical monuments, human bodies and hermeneutic acts of mapping, traversing, representing, and performing the city. Several essays explore the relations between memory, history and urban space; where memory is located and how it is narrated, as well as various aspects of embodied memory; testimonial memory; traumatic memory; counter-memory; false memory; post-memory. Other essays examine the representations of post-war cities and how cultural imaginations relate to the politics of reconstruction in places devastated by protracted urban warfare. Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory offers a comparative survey of the complex and often controversial encounters between public art, political memory and commemoration in divided societies, as well as offering insights into the political and ethical difficulties of balancing the dynamics of forgetting and remembering.

The New Politics of Conflict Resolution

The New Politics of Conflict Resolution
Author: Morgan Brigg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2008-11-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230583377

This book shows that the conflict resolution field often denies difference even as it attempts to implement a progressive and responsive politics. Innovative theoretical analysis suggests ways of responding anew across difference and beyond dominant ways of thinking about political community and conflict.

The Era of Private Peacemakers

The Era of Private Peacemakers
Author: Marko Lehti
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-07-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319912011

The field of peacemaking is in turbulent change. There are more peacemaking actors than before but fewer success stories, and an increasing number of violent conflicts tend to resist negotiated agreements. Tools and practices created for traditional inter- and intra-state conflicts have become ineffective and revision of old mediation practices is called for. This book examines how the private peacemaking organisations have faced this challenge. In the 21st century, private peacemakers have become a central part of peace diplomacy and have appeared as flexible actors whose innovative thinking paves the way for reconsidering and reinventing old practices of mediation. Instead of emphasizing the act of resolution, a new emphasis is given to the transformation of violence into a peace system, the complexity of conflict and the inadequateness of rational management. Furthermore, this shift has brought civic society actors from the field of reconciliation to the field of peace mediation. This new pragmatic approach under development can be called dialogic mediation.

Memory and Political Change

Memory and Political Change
Author: A. Assmann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230354246

Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions.

Politics in a Religious World

Politics in a Religious World
Author: Eric Patterson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1441191089

Politics in a Religious World examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international conflicts. After the Cold War, it became evident that religion was a key factor in many conflicts, including Bosnia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. However, the US failed to correctly appreciate this role, for example predicting the failure of the Iranian theocrats in 1979. Today, most of the security and foreign relations challenges faced by the US are infused with religious factors, from its relations with Iran to the Iraq war and jihadist terrorists. Religion, however, can also play a transnational role when it comes to human rights, conflict resolution, and political mobilization. Written by an expert in the field, the book analyzes why the US deliberately avoids the religious dimension of international affairs and proposes a comprehensive approach to a religiously literate US foreign policy. Politics in a Religious World addresses a needed area and will appeal to anyone studying US foreign policy as well as the interaction of religion and international affairs.

Antimilitarism

Antimilitarism
Author: C. Cockburn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2012-04-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230378390

A lively, first hand account of the ideas and activities of women and men in anti-war, anti-militarist and peace movements. The author looks at the tensions and divergences in and between organizations, and their potential for cohering into a powerful worldwide counter-hegemonic movement for violence reduction.

Child Soldiers in Context

Child Soldiers in Context
Author: Artur Bogner
Publisher: Göttingen University Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2020
Genre: Child soldiers
ISBN: 3863954556

Long before “IS” and “Boko Haram”, the messianic “Lord’s Resistance Army” (LRA) in Uganda was considered as one of the most brutal rebel groups in Africa, or in the world, and as one which clearly specialized in the abduction, “recruitment” and deployment of children and adolescents as ombatants. This book presents the results of a research project on former child soldiers and rebels in northern Uganda and their “reintegration” into society after their return to civilian life. The authors investigate their biographies and the social figurations or relationships between them and members of the civilian population that emerged following their return, not least in their families of origin, and show which conditions facilitate or hinder their “(re)integration” into civilian life. The discussion also shows what distinguishes them from former members of rebel groups in the neighboring region of West Nile, in respect of their history and how they were recruited, as well as in their present situation and social position.

Local Leadership in Democratic Transition

Local Leadership in Democratic Transition
Author: Chavanne L. Peercy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137282509

This book provides an in-depth analysis into the ways in which local leaders impact internationally-led democratic transition. Using three key case studies, Burundi, Cambodia and Liberia, it re-evaluates current transition paradigms delivering a new framework for understanding the roles of local leaders in democratic transition and peacebuilding.