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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"peace and reconciliation"”.
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Heritage Interpretation of the Dead as a Tool for Peace and Reconciliation: the Case of Visitor Development at Rwanda's Post-Conflict Memorialscape
Since the end of the 1994 Genocide, Rwanda has been carrying out an experiment of reconciliation; an enduring process both enabled and complicated by the arrival and increase of local and international tourism to the national genocide memorials. Focusing on a less Western-centric approach towards …
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The law's authority to implicitly inscribe the rhetoric of forgiveness through creatures of statute tasked with truth recovery, justice, peace and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts of South Africa and Rwanda
… a socio-legal approach of the rhetoric of law and the rhetoric of forgiveness in bodies legally mandated with reconciliation in post-conflict contexts of South Africa and Rwanda. Through a qualitative engagement with literature, the aim is to ascertain whether the law has the authority to grant …
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“We Don’t Hear All The Stories”: East Timorese Youth And Education About The Indonesian Occupation
The role of formal and informal education in shaping youths’ historical memories of violence is not well understood (Cole & Barsalou, 2006; Worden, 2014). Few research studies (Bellino, 2017; Russell, 2020; Worden, 2014) have explored how youth engage and negotiate with contested history via formal …
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Inference in tough places : essays on modeling and matching with applications to civil conflict
… civilians in Darfur, Sudan on attitudes towards peace and reconciliation. The second and third essays both address a common but overlooked challenge to making inferences from observational data: even when unobserved confounding can be ruled out, correctly "conditioning on" or "adjusting for" …
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Strengthening the Christian presence in the Holy Land through the implementation of a strategic planning programme
… the Christian presence in the Holy Land that has been in existence for more than 2,000 years. The Christian presence there is not only about maintaining and preserving the holy shrines related to Christianity. It is also about maintaining and preserving the local Christian …
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Maurice Ravel and Paul Wittgenstein: Le Concerto pour la Main Gauche in Response to World War I
… to commission one of the most celebrated left-hand piano pieces from Maurice Ravel (1875–1937): the 1930 Concerto pour la Main Gauche. Ravel’s war experience was not as dramatic as Wittgenstein’s, but it still affected him personally, professionally and artistically; his involvement definitely …
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Fight at the Museum: An Ethnographic Study Investigating Staff and Volunteers at WWII Museums and Memorials
… of the past can be explained, appreciated, and understood. While efforts are often taken to provide a neutral position in the presentation of complicated and emotional historical events, there may exist external pressure to present a more overtly nationalist narrative to please a particular …
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The language of community psychology : South African Terminology
… cen-trality of language in psychology in general and particularly in community psychology. The study seeks to demonstrate that language is not only a tool for social construction of reality and social communication, but also a powerful influence on human behaviour in a social context. It is argued …
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Is international law a building or stumbling block to States' response to a legacy of massive atrocities? Reassessing the obligations to investigate and prosecute
Post-conflict situations, regime changes, and peace processes within situations of active hostility pose tremendous challenges for the governments and societies involved. The inherent dilemma between justice and the international obligations to investigate and prosecute a legacy of large-scale …
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Caught in the crossfire: Catholic religious sisters and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-2008
… conflict through an analysis of the experiences and roles played by Catholic religious sisters in Northern Ireland during the period commonly known as the Troubles (1968-2008). As the contribution of these women has been largely overlooked in the historiography of the conflict, this thesis places …
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Invisibility, appropriation, subversion: British Army observation posts at the Shankill Falls divide, 1972
Visible watchtowers, high walls, checkpoints and barriers form the accepted understanding of conflict era architecture in Northern Ireland. Invisible surveillance structures also played a role, but little is known about them or their whereabouts. To examine and evoke the invisible, the measures I …