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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"dealing with the past"”.
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The IRA and the shadow of the informer : punishment, governance, and dealing with the past
This thesis examines how an armed group understands and manages the operation of informers against it, using the case-study of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The research argues that the IRA’s policies and discourses in relation to the practical and political threat of informing are located …
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Deepening Dialogue in Silent Spaces: Ireland’s pedagogy of peace.
… who lived through this era to speak openly with each other about what went wrong. This thesis acknowledges the presence of deep-rooted societal silence that accompanies violent conflict and explores the role of silence in post conflict communities. It describes the significance of education …
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Localising Peacebuilding in South Sudan? A Case of Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
Despite the signing of the 2005 Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the two decades of South-North Sudan war; and the 2015 Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan, to end the current civil war, armed conflicts persist in South Sudan. Two key inadequacies of the liberal …
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Debating the lessons of history : the politics of the Nazi past in Germany and Austria
… debates in advanced industrial societies, and then use it to illuminate the political stakes of "coming to terms with the past" in societies with recent histories of mass violations of human rights. My dissertation recasts dealing with the past as a punctuated series of elite debates over the …
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Architecture, ‘coming to terms with the past’ and the ‘world in common’: Post-war urban reconstruction in Belgrade and Sarajevo
This dissertation discusses the rebuilding of cities after war in the context of the changing character of warfare and the increased expectations for societies to deal with difficult pasts. Departing from studies that approach post-war reconstruction focusing on the functional dimension of …
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The future of the past : on conserving the Mellah of Rabat, Morocco
This thesis examines the approach to urban conservation in the Jewish Quarter or Mellah in Rabat, Morocco. It addresses the complexities of conservation in a diverse society in a developing country. It explores how a view of the past affects the conservation rationale and argues for re-evaluating …
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The making of a new past for a "new" South Africa :the commemoration of Robben Island
This study examines the interplay between the constitution of a new vision for society and new identity in post-apartheid South Africa and the corollary reshaping of the public representation of the past. In the first part, I construct a theoretical framework by combining theoretical literature on …
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Remembering Omagh : aesthetics, ethics and ownership in the performance of memory in post-conflict Northern Ireland
This thesis is a practice as research study which seeks to explore aesthetic and ethical issues surrounding the performance of memory in a post-conflict society. Located within the Northern Ireland context, my study is focused on the town of Omagh- the site of the single worst terrorist attack in …
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Die Rolle der Vergangenheitsbewältigung im Systemwechsel : Fallbeispiel Chile
In a number of countries in the world since the nineteenth century transitions have taken place from authoritarian to liberal democratic systems. The transformation of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes has become a central topic of political science investigations. These studies aimed at …