This article discusses the impact of ethnic conflict in Myanmar on the country’s language and education policies through data gathered over nine months of fieldwork in 2011. The article begins by contextualising the…
This article offers a reformulation of the concept of resilience. Marie E. Berry brings into question the neo-liberal and individualised idea(l)s of resilience, especially considering conflictual areas where survivors…
In this article, Reinisch examines the motivations and ideology of teenagers and young adults involved in dissident republican activity with a focus on Na Fianna Éireann, a dissident republican youth organization in…
In this short piece, Buthpitiya is introducing an extremely interesting nuance in Conflict Resolution. There is a tendency for people to think that peace automatically has positive meanings and implications. In the…
This article focuses on the court systems in the wake of the Rwandan genocide which targeted the people responsible for the organisation of mass killings, as well as individual criminals in isolated villages. Saul…
The justice processes which took place in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide have received much press, mostly positive. But Longman, like some other authors examining the processes in retrospect, adds nuance to this…
Garrett Stewart argues animation and documentary-style filmmaking/writing enhance the constructed nature of memory and trauma in Ari Folman’s 2008 documentary Waltz With Bashir. This makes the film’s ending (especially…
Kraemer argues the animation in Waltz With Bashir (2008) softens the real violence and atrocities committed by the characters in the film, allowing blame to be pushed off of Israeli soldiers and government officials.…
Mohammed discusses the history of the Iraqi novel from the 1920s onward, including the large output in the 1960s, the character of highly censored novels produced between 1980 and 2003, many of which were war novels,…