This paper asserts that constructively remembering past atrocities is central to the formation of a lasting, multi-faceted peace in post-genocide societies. The Rwandan case-study first illustrates the dynamics of a society affected by genocide, as well as critically analyzes the integrity of its peace. Secondly, the role of collective memory in reconciliation is discussed at length, including ...

In post-colonial India the female foeticide, a practice evolved from customary female infanticide of pre-colonial and colonial period, committed though in separate incidents, has made it almost a unified wave of mass murder. It does not fulfil the widely accepted existing definition of genocide but the high rate of abortion of legitimate girl-foetus by Indian parents makes their crime a kind of...

• United Europe vs. fragmented Bosnia and Herzegovina; • Free travel, mobility of people, goods, money vs. ghetto, siege and divided cities; • Human rights, especially minority rights issues vs. genocide and ethnical cleansing; • Information highways vs. total collapse of basic telecommunications infrastructure; • Revival of multicultural vs. the killing of traditionally the only multicultural ...

After Indonesia's independence, various internal conflicts occurred which caused several major upheavals. These include Permesta, PRRI, 1965, and 1998 incidents. Not only upheavals, but also crimes, such as rape, looting, torture, even genocide. This is what makes literary works present by recounting incidents of violence or disappearances that during the upheaval, one novel Laut Bercerita Leil...

Intuition suggests that major powers should be more likely to pursue joint military intervention when their preferences are most similar, but empirically, joint interventions are least likely in these cases. The solution to this puzzle lies in the strategic interaction between interveners. When states agree over policy, they face a free rider problem. A state is more willing to join an interven...

BACKGROUND The relationship between organized violence and family violence, and their cumulative effect on mental health in post-conflict regions remains poorly understood. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to establish prevalence rates and predictors of family violence in post-conflict Rwanda. And to examine whether higher levels of war-related violence and its socio-economic conseq...