Workshop "Transitional Justice"
Chaired by
Gunnar Folke Schuppert (Professor of Law, WZB / Hertie School of Governance) and
Ari Kohen (Professor of Social Justice, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
- Naomi Angel (Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, USA)
“Reframing the Tolerant Nation: Truth and Reconciliation in Canada”
Download Paper (PDF) - Ulrike Capdepón (Global and Area Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, Hamburg, Germany)
“Historical Memory and Democratization in Chile and Spain: Between Local Discourses and International Norms”
Download Paper (PDF) - Jennifer Dixon (Political Science, University of Berkeley, California, USA)
“Changing the State’s Story: Understanding the Sources of Change in Official Narratives of Traumatic Historical Events”
Download Paper (PDF) - Andrea Hajek (Italian Culture, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)
“Teaching Terrorism in Italy: Towards a Politics of Nonreconciliation”
Download Paper (PDF) - Steven Kaindaneh (Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, UK)
“Indigenous War Commemoration: Healing, Reconciliation and Identity Formation in Rural Communities in Post-Civil War Sierra Leone”
Download Paper (PDF) - J. Olaf Kleist (Political Science, Free University of Berlin, Germany)
“Australia Day and the Problem of Historical Justice: Creating an Inclusive Political Culture from Diverse Memories”
Download Paper (PDF) - Dilek Latif (International Relations, Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus)
“Dilemmas of Moving from the Divided Past to Envisaged United Future: Rewriting the History Books in the North Cyprus”
Download Paper (PDF) - Benjamin Madley (History, Yale University, New Haven, USA)
“Reexamining the American Genocide Debate: Meaning, Historiography, and New Methods”
Download Paper (PDF) - Peter Manning (Sociology, London School of Economics, UK)
“Mediating Memory: ‘Justice’ and ‘Reconciliation’ at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia”
Download Paper (PDF) - Thomas Misco (Social Studies Education, Miami University, USA)
“Attending to Gaps in Historical Memory: Promises and Challenges for Curriculum Implementation in Post-Communist Settings”
Download Paper (PDF) - Franklin Oduro (Political Science, Carleton University, Canada)
“Interrogating Policy Formulation Processes of Recent Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) in Africa”
Download Paper (PDF) - Godwin Onuoha (History and Political Science, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
“The Powerful Presence of the Past: Memory Politics, Self-Determination and the Reinvention of Igbo Nationalism in Contemporary Nigeria”
Download Paper (PDF) - Tomoe Otsuki (Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada)
“Beyond Legal Justice: Addressing Asia's Forgotten WWII Victims”
Download Paper (PDF) - Julia Paulson (Education, University of Oxford, UK)
“History and Hysteria’: Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Recent Conflict in the National Curriculum”
Download Paper (PDF) - Sara Pollack (Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Education, Israel)
“Lessons from Israeli Jewish-Arab Collaborative Learning of Their Shared History”
Download Paper (PDF) - Gideon Rossouw (Law, North West University, South Africa)
“Truth or Memory: After the South African TRC, or when the Politics of Forgiveness Gives Way to Politics of Power/Dominance”
Download Paper (PDF) - Jamie Rowen (Law, Berkeley School of Law, USA)
“Civil Society and the United States’ Transition”
Download Paper (PDF) - Elizabeth Young (Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
“Unifying History: An Examination of official national Narratives in the Republic of Yemen”
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