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 international case studies combining theoretical and practical points of view, the book envisions an integrated understanding of how historical dialogue can inform policy, education, and the practice of atrocity prevention. In doing so, it provides a vital basis for the development of preventive policies sensitive to the importance of conflict histories and for further academic study on the topic.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students of history, psychology, peace studies, international relations and political science.
This book brings together a diverse range of international voices from academia, policymaking and civil society 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.
Introduction
Chapter 1 Historical Dialogue and Mass Atrocities
Chapter
2 Preventing Mass Atrocities: The Role of Conflict History in Risk,
Response, and Resilience Part I - Historical Commissions
Chapter 3
Historical commissions in Germany since the 1990s: Potential for social and
political conflict solving
Chapter 4 Attempted Transitional Justice and
Historical Dialogue: The Case of Israel's Or Commission
Chapter 5
Historical Dialogue in Post-Conflict Kosovo
Chapter 6 The Foundation
"Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" and the Ambivalence of
Reconciliation and Conflict Prevention Part II - Education
Chapter 7 Common
history textbooks as a tool of preventing mass atrocities
Chapter 8
Dialogue in the Trenches: Confronting Political Narratives in Ugandan
Secondary Schools Part III - Museums
Chapter 9 Is the Memory of War in
Contemporary Europe Enhancing Historical Dialogue
Chapter 10 Museums and
Memorials as Sites of Dialogue: Historical Narratives, Mass Violence, and
Atrocity Prevention
Chapter 11 Exhibiting War to Understand Peace - how do
military museums adjust to the need to foster international understanding and
peaceful conflict resolution? Part IV - Art and Visual Interventions
Chapter
12 Witnessing the Past and the Present: Photography and Guatemalas Fight
for Historical Dialogue
Chapter 13 "Daisy in the Dirt": Visualizing Women's
Historical Injustices of War and Violence
Chapter 14 Memory Encroachments
and Re-Plotting the Past: Cartographies of Violence and Memory in
Post-Atrocity Argentina, Germany, and the United States
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.
