| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Contents |
Title Page; Table of Contents; 1 -- Political Victim Discourse; 2 -- Peacebuilding and Victim Discourse; 3 -- Fleshing Out the Ideal Victim; 4 -- The Ideal Victim in the Political; 5 -- Theorizing a Complex Political Victim; 6 -- The Delicate Task of Considering Complex Political Victims; 7 -- Political Practices of the Complex Political Victim; 8 -- The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Epilogue; Bibliography |
| Summary |
* Reframes major events like South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Holocaust, and the war in Bosnia to take into account the "complex victim" * Calls for a more effective and encompassing support of all types of victims, especially those not typically recognized as such Images of the political victim are powerful, gripping, and integral in helping us makes sense of conflict, particularly in making moral calculations, determining who is "good" and who is "evil". These images, and the discourse of victimization that surrounds them, inform the international community when deciding to recognize certain individuals as victims and play a role in shaping response policies. These policies in turn create the potential for long term, stable peace after episodes of political victimization. Bouris finds weighty problems with this dichotomous conception of actors in a conflict, which pervades much of contemporary peacebuilding scholarship. She instead argues that victims, much like the conflicts themselves, are complex. Rather than use this complexity as a way to dismiss victims or call for limits on the response from the international community, the book advocates for greater and more effective responses to conflict. Erica Bouris is an assistant professor at Rollins College in the department of Political Science. Her teaching and research interests center on political victimization, post-conflict societies and the ethical dimension of international engagement with these issues |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Political persecution.
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Political violence.
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Political atrocities.
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Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
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Human rights.
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Civil rights.
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terrorism.
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Civil rights
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Human rights
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Political atrocities
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Political persecution
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Political violence
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Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781565492783 |
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1565492781 |
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