Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Collier, Paul, and Anke Hoeffler. Oxford Economic Papers 56, no. 4 (2004): 563–95. This article investigates the causes of civil war by analysing 79 civil wars which took place between 1966 and 1999. The authors…
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Demanding Sacrifice: War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka
Philipson, L., & Lanka, S. S. A. o. S. (1998). Conciliation Resources. “Demanding Sacrifice: War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka is a book written by Jeremy Armon and Liz Philipson, discussing war and peace in Sri Lanka.…
Local Ownership of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Restorative and Retributive Effects
Saul, Matthew. International Criminal Law Review 12, no. 3 (2012): 427-456. This article focuses on the court systems in the wake of the Rwandan genocide which targeted the people responsible for the organisation of…
An assessment of Rwanda’s gacaca courts
Longman, Timothy. Peace Review 21, no. 3 (2009): 304-312. The justice processes which took place in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide have received much press, mostly positive. But Longman, like some other authors…
Screen memory in Waltz with Bashir
Stewart, Garrett. 2012. Film Quarterly 63, no. 3: 58-62. 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 (2008): trauma and representation in the animated documentary
Kraemer, Joseph A. 2015. Journal of Film and Video 67, no. 3-4: 57-68. Kraemer argues the animation in Waltz With Bashir (2008) softens the real violence and atrocities committed by the characters in the film, allowing…
The Return of Scheherazade, or the Rise of the Iraqi Novel after 2003
Mohammed, Sadek R. 2018. World Literature Today 92, no. 2: 32-36. Mohammed discusses the history of the Iraqi novel from the 1920s onward, including the large output in the 1960s, the character of highly censored…
Apartheid ended 29 years ago. How has South Africa changed?
Rachel Jones- Photos- Ilvy Njiokiktjien. 2019. National Geographic. This article, composed of written narratives as well as professional photographs, attempts to capture post-Apartheid South Africa. It examines the…