Author: Albena TanevaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789540721224
Category : Bulgaria
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Power of Civil Society in a Time of Genocide
Author: Albena TanevaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789540721224
Category : Bulgaria
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Europe in the Era of Two World Wars
Author: Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400832616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
How and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the twentieth century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east, create successful civilian societies? In this book, Volker Berghahn explains the rise and fall of the men of violence whose wars and civil wars twice devastated large areas of the European continent and Russia--until, after World War II, Europe adopted a liberal capitalist model of society that had first emerged in the United States, and the beginnings of which the Europeans had experienced in the mid-1920s. Berghahn begins by looking at how the violence perpetrated in Europe's colonial empires boomeranged into Europe, contributing to the millions of casualties on the battlefields of World War I. Next he considers the civil wars of the 1920s and the renewed rise of militarism and violence in the wake of the Great Crash of 1929. The second wave of even more massive violence crested in total war from 1939 to 1945 that killed more civilians than soldiers, and this time included the industrialized murder of millions of innocent men, women, and children in the Holocaust. However, as Berghahn concludes, the alternative vision of organizing a modern industrial society on a civilian basis--in which people peacefully consume mass-produced goods rather than being 'consumed' by mass-produced weapons--had never disappeared. With the United States emerging as the hegemonic power of the West, it was this model that finally prevailed in Western Europe after 1945 and after the end of the Cold War in Eastern Europe as well.
Civil Society and the Holocaust
Author: Cecilie Felicia Stokholm BankePublisher:
ISBN: 9788799649716
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Path to Genocide in Rwanda
Author: Omar Shahabudin McDoomPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108491464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Uses unique field data to offer a rigorous explanation of how Rwanda's genocide occurred and why Rwandans participated in it.
Humanitarianism: Keywords
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004431144
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its current and future articulations. The dictionary serves a broad readership of practitioners, students, and researchers by providing informed access to the extensive humanitarian vocabulary.
Responding to Genocide
Author: Adam LupelPublisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN: 9781588269065
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
What are the causes of genocide and mass atrocities? How can we prevent these atrocities or, when that is no longer possible, intervene to stop them? What are the impediments to timely and robust action? In what ways do political factors shape the nature, and results, of international responses? The authors of Responding to Genocide explore these questions, examining the many challenges involved in forging effective international policies to combat genocidal violence.
Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory
Author: Birgit SchwellingPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 383941931X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations - have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion.
Legacy of Hope
Author: Avi MizrachiPublisher: WestBow Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A multitude of books have been written about both the horrors and the heroes of World War II. Legacy of Hope: Hidden Heroes from Generation to Generation, though similar in general topic as some of those other World War II books, is also uniquely different. Legacy of Hope tells the story—both from a historical viewpoint and a personal one—of two seldom honored heroes of that era, an orthodox priest and a humble but highly revered rabbi, both of whom courageously and repeatedly put their lives on the line to save the Jewish population of Bulgaria.
Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Author: Filip ReyntjensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107043557
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Analyses political governance in post-genocide Rwanda, focusing on the rise of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the RPF has employed various means - rigged elections, elimination of opposition parties and civil society, legislation outlawing dissenting opinions, and terrorism - to consolidate its position as the nation's ruling party. Although Rwanda is considered successful for its technocratic governance, societal reforms, and economic development, shows the regime's darker side of human rights abuses, social engineering projects, information management schemes, and retributive justice system.
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