1st Edition
The Role of Memory in War Politics and Post-Conflict Reconciliation Historical Memory in Crisis
Introduction. The construction of a mnemonic order using history
Lily Hamourtziadou and Przemyslaw Lukasik
Chapter 1. War memorialised: How the UK remembers its wars and its dead.
Lily Hamourtziadou
Chapter 2. Annus Horribilis: 1989 in the Balkans
Stefan Troebst
Chapter 3. Vergangenheitsbewältigung as a Global Challenge for Historians. How Russia and others have dealt with their past
Erkki Tuomioja
Chapter 4. Weeping Dubček, shocked society. Use and misuse of historical memory during the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968
Oldřich Tůma
Chapter 5. Commemorating KL Gusen and its victims as a subject of international controversy
Jan Rydel
Chapter 6. Romanian perspectives on the Russian-Ukrainian War (2022-2023)
Marcela Sălăgean
Chapter 7. The Russia-Ukraine War as a Crisis Situation: Poland and Georgia
Khatuna Chapichadze and Przemyslaw Lukasik
Chapter 8. Young Czechs, Poles, Austrians, and Ukrainians: Their Attitudes to the War in Ukraine
Luděk Jirka, Mateusz Kamionka, and Eva Tamara Asboth
Biography
Lily Hamourtziadou is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, the UK. She served as principal researcher and analyst of the NGO Iraq Body Count (2006–2025) and was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is a member of the West Midlands Military Education Committee and a member of the Counter Terrorism Evidence-Based Review Group. She has worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a Middle East reports writer, and she is the author of three books: Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq (2020), The Ethics of Remote Warfare (2024), and Human Costs of War (2024).
Przemysław Łukasik is Assistant Professor at Institute of Journalism and International Relations, National Education Commission University, Kraków, Poland. He has been a visiting fellow in the ‘Scholar in Residence’ programme of the Goethe-Institute and the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities in Essen, Germany. He had been also editorial secretary (2011–2015) of the English-language historical scientific journal Remembrance and Solidarity: Studies in 20th Century European History, published by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.
