After mass crime : rebuilding states and communities / edited by Béatrice Pouligny, Simon Chesterman and Albrecht Schnabel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pouligny, Béatrice.

Chesterman, Simon.

Schnabel, Albrecht.

Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. Centre d'études et de recherches internationales.

International Peace Academy.

swisspeace (Organization)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation-building.

Peace-building.

Political atrocities.

Postwar reconstruction.

Physical Description:

xv, 314 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, [2007]

Summary:

International interventions in the aftermath of mass violence tend to focus on justice and reconciliation processes, elections and institution-building. The frame of reference is at the level of the state, although the experience of mass crime by a population is also at the level of the community and individuals. Insufficient attention has been paid to the radical transformations in their belief systems and codes of conduct after the experience of mass crime. This book seeks to bridge this divide by offering a trans-disciplinary analysis of the impact of mass crime on the rebuilding of social and political relations. Drawing on historical and more recent cases-including examples from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burundi, Cambodia, Indonesia, Peru and Rwanda-the authors examine the impact of mass crime on individuals, society at large and the organizations involved in providing assistance in the post-conflict phase. While outside actors have a role to play in this difficult process, the hardest work must be done by those picking up the pieces of a community that has turned on itself. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Picking up the pieces / Béatrice Pouligny, Simon Chesterman and Albrecht Schnabel

Methodological and ethical problems : a trans-disciplinary approach / Béatrice Pouligny, Bernard Doray and Jean-Clément Martin

Contested memories : peace-building and community rehabilitation after violence and mass crimes : a medico-anthropological approach / Roberto Beneduce

The uses and abuses of culture : cultural competence in post-mass-crime peace-building in Cambodia / Maurice Eisenbruch

Intimate enemies : reconciling the present in post-war communities in Ayacucho, Peru / Kimberly Theidon

Origins and aftermaths : the dynamics of genocide in Rwanda and their post-genocide implications / Scott Straus

"You can't run away" : former combat soldiers and the role of social perception in coping with war experience in the Balkans / Natalija Basic

Mass murder, the politics of memory and post-genocide reconstruction : the cases of Rwanda and Burundi / René Lemarchand and Maurice Niwese

Speaking from the shadows : memory and mass violence in Bali / Leslie Dwyer and Degung Santikarma

Shaping political identity through historical discourse : the memory of Soviet mass crimes / Thomas Sherlock

External contributions to post-mass-crime rehabilitation / Louis Kriesberg

Re-imagining peace after mass crime : a dialogical exchange between insider and outsider knowledge / Roberta Culbertson and Béatrice Pouligny.

Notes:

"A project of the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS), the International Peace Academy, swisspeace and the United Nations University"--P. [ii].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-306) and index.

ISBN:

9789280811384

928081138X

OCLC:

77270318