1st Edition

Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities

Edited By Elazar Barkan, Constantin Goschler, James Waller Copyright 2020
324 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Historical Dialogue and Mass Atrocities

Elazar Barkan

Chapter 2 – Preventing Mass Atrocities: The Role of Conflict History in Risk, Response, and Resilience

James E. Waller

Part I - Historical Commissions

Chapter 3 – Historical commissions in Germany since the 1990s: Potential for social and political conflict solving

Christoph Cornelißen

Chapter 4 – Attempted Transitional Justice and Historical Dialogue: The Case of Israel's Or Commission

Sigall Horovitz

Chapter 5 – Historical Dialogue in Post-Conflict Kosovo

Anna De Lellio

Chapter 6 – The Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" and the Ambivalence of Reconciliation and Conflict Prevention

Constantin Goschler

Part II - Education

Chapter 7 – Common history textbooks as a tool of preventing mass atrocities

Karina Korostelina

Chapter 8 – Dialogue in the Trenches: Confronting Political Narratives in Ugandan Secondary Schools

Ashley L. Greene

Part III - Museums

Chapter 9 – Is the Memory of War in Contemporary Europe Enhancing Historical Dialogue

Stefan Berger

Chapter 10 – Museums and Memorials as Sites of Dialogue: Historical Narratives, Mass Violence, and Atrocity Prevention

Alexander Karn

Chapter 11 – Exhibiting War to Understand Peace - how do military museums adjust to the need to foster international understanding and peaceful conflict resolution?

Falk Pingel

Part IV - Art and Visual Interventions

Chapter 12 – Witnessing the Past and the Present: Photography and Guatemala’s Fight for Historical Dialogue

Kaitlin Murphy

Chapter 13 – "Daisy in the Dirt": Visualizing Women's Historical Injustices of War and Violence

Olivera Simic

Chapter 14 – Memory Encroachments and Re-Plotting the Past: Cartographies of Violence and Memory in Post-Atrocity Argentina, Germany, and the United States

Kerry Whigham

Biography

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.