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History and the Politics of Reconciliation Program
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Elazar Barkan,
Roy Gutman,
Donald. S. Hays,
Haris Hromic,
Charles Ingrao,
Mirza Kusljugic,
David Marwell,
H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein
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07/13/05
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Transcript of a panel and commemorative event of the 10th anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica, held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in collaboration with the Academy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and with the Council in an advisory role.
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Haris Hromic,
Elizabeth A. Cole
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06/27/05
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On June 27, 2005, almost exactly ten years after the Srebrenica massacres, CarnegieCouncil.org spoke to Haris Hromic about his pioneering work for the Academy of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Alexander Stille,
Kenneth Frampton,
Elizabeth A. Cole
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04/29/04
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Alexander Stille discusses our complex relations to the past in today's age of rapid technological advances.
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H.E. Stuart Eizenstat,
Jeffrey K. Olick,
Elizabeth A. Cole
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05/06/03
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H. E. Stuart Eizenstat argues that WWII restitution cases faciliate reconciliation and advance the cause of human rights.
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Takashi Yoshida,
Elizabeth A. Cole
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03/20/03
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"Teaching history can be a tool for encouraging students to be critical, and think about how they can tolerate a plurality of views about what is right and what is wrong," says Takashi Yoshida.
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Yossi Klein Halevi
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10/31/02
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Muslim countries have historically made space for Jewish minority groups, but Islam must evolve to accept a more modern notion of pluralism if there is to be peace in the Middle East, says Yossi Klein Halevi.
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Joel H. Rosenthal,
David A. Crocker,
David Little,
Margaret Popkin,
Paul van Zyl
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05/20/99
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Drawing from their observations of truth and reconciliation efforts in Bosnia, South Africa, Chile, Guatemala, and Cambodia, the panelists explore the challenges of confronting a violent past.
Articles, Papers, and Reports
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Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
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12/10/04
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"Education Week" article about how countries struggle to come to terms with their pasts.
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Elizabeth Oglesby
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09/01/04
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Carnegie Council Fellow Elizabeth Oglesby investigates to what degree the findings of the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission [CEH], have been integrated into secondary school history programs, how this happened and what are the politics of post-war and post-Commission education in Guatemala today.
Much attention is paid to prosecutions implemented by countries transitioning to democracy--but little to their efforts toward reparations. Yet from the standpoint of the victims, reparations programs are the most visible efforts of a state to remedy the harms they have suffered.
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Kai Erikson,
Elizabeth A. Cole
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04/05/04
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Distinguished sociologist Kai Erikson described his many journeys to the town of Pakrac, in the former Yugoslavia, beginning during the war in 1992, and the interviews he conducted with current and former residents of the town.
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Eric Davis,
Elizabeth A. Cole
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02/17/04
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Report of an 2/17/04 "Beyond History and Memory" seminar, a series cosponsored by the Council's History and the Politics of Reconciliation Program and Columbia University.
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Ira Katznelson,
Gayatri Spivak,
Elizabeth A. Cole
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02/02/04
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The "desolation" of the 20th century--the total war of the two World Wars, the totalitarian regimes of both the right and left, and the Holocaust--has raised questions that scholars are still struggling to answer. For example, how did major political philosophers in the post-war period
account for the failure of the European Enlightenment?
What role does history play in political reconciliation, and what role can historians play in public debates about the past? What can they contribute to the search for state and institutional accountability for historical injustices? Could the work of historians brought together from across the national or ethnic lines of old conflicts be a complement to the work of other institutions such as truth commissions and tribunals? Summary Report on a Meeting for a Historical Commission Project, April 3-5, 2003.
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Carolyn Boyd,
David A. Crocker,
Elizabeth A. Cole
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06/25/03
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Boyd and Crocker discuss Spain as a case study of the problems raised by the process of development and democratization in a country that must also contend with a difficult past.
What form does the Spanish collective memory about the civil war take today, and how can we assess the Spanish attempt to reckon with the past in light of the nation's successful transition to a modern European democracy? At this workshop, presentations by Carolyn Boyd and David Crocker explore these issues against the backdrop of Spanish history.
Debates over political expressions of regret, apology, reparations, and historical injustice have become increasingly important around the world. Do we share a common framework and vocabulary for this search across cultures and national boundaries? Levy considers how the Holocaust plays such an important role.
At the October 25-26 Carnegie Council conference "The Search for a Usable Past," a group of scholars discusses the question "What ought we elect to remember?"
Report on an International Faculty Development Seminar held From June 3-5, 2001, in Lublin, Poland, sponsored by the Carnegie Council, Jagiellonian University, and Brama Grodzka.
Resource Picks
In recent times, the issue of reparations for slavery, long on the fringe of political thought, has come increasingly to dominate mainstream discussions about racism, colonialism, and poverty.
Inprint Newsletter (2001-04)
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Elizabeth A. Cole
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02/20/03
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In the first-ever Japan-North Korea summit last September, North Korean leader
Kim Jong Il apologized for the forced abductions of thirteen Japanese nationals
who were taken to North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. North Korea had
previously denied responsibility for these--and many other--disappearances; and
for years the issue has soured relations between the two countries.
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