Resonant Violence

Resonant Violence
Author: Kerry Whigham
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2022-02-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1978825579

From the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.

Handicapping America

Handicapping America
Author: Frank Bowe
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1978
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Describes America's shameful neglect of one out of every six of her citizens who has a physical, mental, or emotional disability and discusses the right of the disabled to jobs, transportation, and full participation in the democracy.

Confronting Evil

Confronting Evil
Author: James Waller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2016
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199300704

This groundbreaking book from one of the foremost leaders in the field presents a fascinating continuum of research-informed strategies to prevent genocide from ever taking place; to avert further atrocities once mass murder occurs; and to prevent further turmoil once a society learns how to rebuild itself.

Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Author: Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000414248

This multidisciplinary volume considers the role of both public health and mental health policies and practices in the prevention of mass atrocity, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The authors address atrocity prevention through the framework of primary (pre-conflict), secondary (mid-conflict), and tertiary (post-conflict) settings. They examine the ways in which public health and mental health scholars and practitioners currently orient their research and interventions and the ways in which we can adapt frameworks, methods, tools, and practice toward a more sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary understanding and application of atrocity prevention. The book brings together diverse fields of study by global north and global south authors in diverse contexts. It culminates in a narrative that demonstrates the state of the current fields on intersecting themes within public health, mental health, and mass atrocity prevention and the future potential directions in which these intersections could go. Such discussions will serve to influence both policy makers and practitioners in these fields toward developing, adapting, and testing frames and tools for atrocity prevention. Multidisciplinary perspectives are represented among editors and authors, including law, political science, international studies, public health, mental health, philosophy, clinical psychology, social psychology, history, and peace studies.

Becoming Evil

Becoming Evil
Author: James Waller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2002-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190287527

Political or social groups wanting to commit mass murder on the basis of racial, ethnic or religious differences are never hindered by a lack of willing executioners. In Becoming Evil, social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller debunks the common explanations for genocide- group think, psychopathology, unique cultures- and offers a more sophisticated and comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes against humanity. He outlines the evolutionary forces that shape human nature, the individual dispositions that are more likely to engage in acts of evil, and the context of cruelty in which these extraordinary acts can emerge. Illustrative eyewitness accounts are presented at the end of each chapter. An important new look at how evil develops, Becoming Evil will help us understand such tragedies as the Holocaust and recent terrorist events. Waller argues that by becoming more aware of the things that lead to extraordinary evil, we will be less likely to be surprised by it and less likely to be unwitting accomplices through our passivity.

Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention

Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention
Author: Sheri P. Rosenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107094968

This proposes a new framework for atrocity prevention, featuring scholars from around the globe including three former UN special advisers.

Ethnicities and Global Multiculture

Ethnicities and Global Multiculture
Author: Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780742540644

Arguing that ethnicity and multiculturalism are essential for understanding globalization, this book offers sustained treatments of their reach beyond a limited national context. It proposes ethnicities and global multiculture as alternative, wide-angle perspectives on cultural diversity.

Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities

Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities
Author: Elazar Barkan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781032336756

This book brings together a diverse range of international voices from academia, policymaking and civil society to address the failure 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. Established on a variety of international case studies combining theoretical and practical points of view, the book envisions an integrated understanding of how historical dialogue can inform policy, education, and the practice of atrocity prevention. In doing so, it provides a vital basis for the development of preventive policies sensitive to the importance of conflict histories and for further academic study on the topic. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of history, psychology, peace studies, international relations and political science.

A Troubled Sleep

A Troubled Sleep
Author: James Waller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2021
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190095571

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, comparative research, and over 110 hours of face-to-face interviews with a diverse range of political, academic, civil society, and community actors across Northern Ireland, Waller revisits one of the world's most deeply divided societies to analyze Northern Ireland's current vulnerabilities, and points of resilience, as an allegedly “post-conflict” society

Comparing Regionalisms

Comparing Regionalisms
Author: Björn Hettne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001
Genre: International economic relations
ISBN: 9780333717080