Contested war remembrance and ethnopolitical identities in Kosovo

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bekim Baliqi
Keyword(s):  
Shared Memory ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
Divided Society ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the relationship between political power and war remembrance by considering the way war remembrance occurs in a divided society. The purpose of this paper is to explore memory of the violent past and its uses as an ongoing arena of disputes between former adversaries and within ethnopolitical groups pushing their distinct versions of memory. Moreover, this paper examines three key aspects of the politics of remembrance: prevalent narratives, arenas of commemoration, and agencies of war remembrance, based on the case study of Kosovo. The postwar narrative and commemoration in Kosovo have evolved along ethnic lines, perpetuating antagonism and conflicting identities. Memorialization in Kosovo raises serious challenges for comprehensive transitional justice and reconciliation between these ethnic groups. The paper concludes that through appropriate civic education, critical inquiry of commemoration practices, and especially through evidence-based adaptation of the history curriculum, there is a chance to promote a culture of shared memory and to establish inclusive politics of remembrance in Kosovo, as crucial components of reconciliation and peace-building.

Higher education, post-conflict democratization and the legacies of authoritarian rule: The Tripoli University Programme for Rebuilding Libya

2021 ◽  
pp. 174619792098136
Author(s):  
Sansom Milton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Transitional Processes ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper, the role of higher education in post-uprising Libya is analysed in terms of its relationship with transitional processes of democratization and civic development. It begins by contextualising the Libyan uprising within the optimism of the ‘Arab Spring’ transitions in the Middle East. Following this, the relationship between higher education and politics under the Qadhafi regime and in the immediate aftermath of its overthrow is discussed. A case-study of a programme designed to support Tripoli University in contributing towards democratisation will then be presented. The findings of the case-study will be reflected upon to offer a set of recommendations for international actors engaging in political and civic education in conflict-affected settings, in particular in the Middle East.

scholarly journals To See Invisible Rights: Quantifying Araman informal tenure and its immediate relationship with Social Forestry in Central Java, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Cummins ◽  
Eiji Yamaji
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Forestry ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Simple Task ◽  
Informal System ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Relationship

The process of formalizing traditional, unwritten tenure systems is no simple task. Inaccurate or incomplete representation of the informal system may create more problems for the local communities. As such, a full understanding of the local informal tenure systems is necessary before implementing any type of land reform. This paper discusses a case study conducted in the Tawanmangu area of Central Java, Indonesia, in which the informal system known as Araman is quantified on paper with the help of the Tenure Map tool, survey, and interview. The challenges of quantifying and understanding an informal system are discussed with the following viewpoints: key aspects of the Araman structure, the relationship between the informal Araman system and the formal Social Forestry system also present in the area, and finally comments on the strengths and weaknesses of the Tenure Map tool after using it in the field.

BUYER-SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY AMONG DUTCH PURCHASING PROFESSIONALS

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 107-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARJOLEIN C. J. CANIËLS ◽  
CEES J. GELDERMAN ◽  
JAN M. ULIJN
Keyword(s):  
Development Stage ◽  
Relationship Development ◽  
Depth Information ◽  
Supplier Relationships ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Relationship

Case study based literature on relationship development presents in-depth information on contextual factors in relationship development. However, little quantitative evidence is available about key aspects of buyer-supplier relationships in each stage of its development, such as the level of trust/commitment, buyer's and supplier's dependence. The study will try to fill this gap by identifying and quantifying these aspects from the buyer's perspective in each development stage. A comprehensive survey among 238 Dutch purchasing professionals provides evidence on how these characteristics of relationships change when relationships develop over time. The results largely confirm the hypotheses, which stem from the extant literature about organizational dependence and trust/commitment. A notable finding is that the buyer perceives to be dependent on the supplier, even in a desirable relationship. Managerial implications are that: (1) industrial marketers should be aware that professional purchasers feel dominated by them, even in relationships that are positively evaluated and therefore desirable in the view of the buyer; and (2) that purchasers should be aware that dependence implies vulnerability, even when the relationship is still developing in an otherwise desirable way.

scholarly journals Fan activism, cybervigilantism, and Othering mechanisms in K-pop fandom

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun Jung
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Fan Practices ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Relationship

Korean popular music (K-pop) fandom may serve as a case study to identify both cynical and utopian views of fans' participatory Net activism by addressing three key aspects: fan activism, cybervigilantism, and Othering mechanisms. Fancom (fan company) in the K-pop scene refers to the way fans systematically manage their own stars. These notions of assertive fancom practices address how fans actively participate in sociocultural events such as fund raising, donating to charity, and volunteering in emergency situations. This management may take another turn, however: antifandom surrounds K-pop star Tablo, signifying cybervigilantism of sinsang teolgi (personal information theft), a term referring to the online activities of a group of netizens who seek to expose the personal details of perceived wrongdoers by publishing them online as a form of punishment. The Tablo case revitalized public concern over privacy and the security of personal information in the digital era. Finally, Othering mechanisms in participatory online K-pop fandom display a strong sense of nationalism and even racism, as demonstrated by responses to anti-Korean rhetoric posted on the MySpace page of K-pop idol Jae-Beom. This highlights the relationship between participatory Net activism and nationalistic sentiment active within K-pop fandom. Some K-pop fan practices may have negative connotations, but by engaging with specific civic issues and social events, participatory fan practices encourage people to interact, discuss, and challenge conventional discourses, which may lead to new forms of social action.

scholarly journals Environmental Design Features for Large-Scale Nature-Based Solutions: Development of a Framework That Incorporates Landscape Dynamics into the Design of Nature-Based Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6123
Author(s):  
Bo-Syuan Wu ◽  
Laddaporn Ruangpan ◽  
Arlex Sanchez ◽  
Marzenna Rasmussen ◽  
Eldon R. Rene ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Landscape Dynamics ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Case Study Site ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu

Large-scale nature-based solutions (NBS) contribute to the change in large-scale landscapes and ecosystems for which continuous monitoring activities would be necessary to reflect the constantly changing environment. To fill the gap in the design-making process of implementing NBS, a framework that incorporates the landscape dynamics into the design of NBS is expedient and beneficial. This research addresses the above gap and presents a practically applicable framework for large-scale NBS that incorporates landscape dynamics into the design of NBS. To amplify the power of stakeholders’ involvement and evidence-based knowledge (i.e., field experiences and literature reports), the framework developed in this study was evaluated on a case-study site in Odense area, Denmark, within the EU-funded RECONECT project. Furthermore, this study also addresses the relationship between landscape dynamics and biodiversity by performing a detailed literature review. The results obtained from this work demonstrate that the framework developed can be applied to existing large-scale NBS and it has the potential to recommend guidelines during the planning and design step of large-scale NBS.

Decision Making in Children’s and Young People’s Nursing Practice

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aatefa Lunat ◽  
Denise Major
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Staff Nurse ◽  
Key Aspects

The purpose of this chapter is to address decision making in the field of children’s and young people’s nursing practice in relation to the field-specific competencies outlined by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in the Standards for Pre-Registration Nursing Education (NMC 2010). In order to explore these competencies further, we will consider examples from practice, and links will be made between the various examples from practice and the competencies in order to demonstrate their importance. To allow an in-depth exploration of the examples from practice, we will use Johns’ (1994) model of reflection. ‘Reflection’ is described as a means by which nurses can closely examine their theoretical knowledge along with their nursing practice (Johns 2000). The process of reflection has been found to have great benefits for nurses, because it allows them the opportunity to change and develop practice in order to carry out improved care practices (O’Regan and Fawcett 2006). In this chapter, the evidence of decision making has been interlinked with critical evidence-based reflective practice, and demonstrates its integration and development in the role of the newly qualified nurse. The chapter will begin by discussing examples derived from practice, and key aspects from these examples will be taken and related to the NMC Standards (NMC 2010). The chapter will then go on to discuss key elements required to make decisions in clinical practice. The evidence base for many of the decisions taken in the case study is interwoven throughout the narrative, thus enabling you see how they link together in nursing practice. Centred on a newly qualified staff nurse on the neonatal unit, the single case study around which this chapter is structured considers the care of a sick neonate whose parents were adolescents. This example was chosen because it illustrates many aspects of caring decisions that have to be made for patients from birth through adolescence, because the parents themselves were still in the later stages of childhood. The case study itself appears as dialogue, and the Standards and competencies referred to are those generic and field-specific competencies that a student pursuing a children’s nursing field-of-practice pathway is required to achieve, found under the heading ‘Competencies for entry to the register: Children’s nursing’ in the NMC Standards (NMC 2010).

scholarly journals Israeli Pre-Transitional Justice and the Nakba Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Yoav Kapshuk ◽  
Lisa Strömbom
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Past Injustices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unintended Outcome

Pre-transitional justice activities that expose past injustices during entrenched conflicts can incite strong reactions among actors who feel threatened by or dislike such activities, and who thus attempt to silence controversial truths. This article illuminates how attempts to silence controversial truths, in parallel with shutting down debate, can also have the unintended outcome of enlarging public discourse on previously marginalised issues. Thus, paradoxically, efforts to curb freedom of expression sometimes result instead in an expanded public capacity to debate previously silenced truths about the conflict. We conduct a case study of reactions to pre-transitional justice in Israeli society focusing on the so-called Nakba Law, enacted in 2011. Through interviews with members of the non-governmental organisation Zochrot, politicians, teachers and media persons, we first show the relationship between pre-transitional justice and enacting the Nakba Law. We then demonstrate that while the Nakba Law indeed aimed to hamper freedom of expression, it also enabled increased public knowledge about the meaning of Nakba. Our theoretical proposition regarding this paradox, in this case activated by instigating new memory laws, is highly relevant to other conflicts-in-resolution that experience pre-transitional justice processes.

scholarly journals THE URBAN PROFILES OF PEACE TOURISM IN ARAB CITIES: OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY. CASE STUDY: AS-SALT (JORDAN) AND CONSTANTINE (ALGERIA) CITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1175-1188
Author(s):  
Foued BENGHADBANE ◽  
◽  
Sawsan KHREIS ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Field Investigations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Culture Of Peace ◽  
Tourist Demand ◽  
The Relationship

Tourism is not only considered as a stimulator for the social and economic development for countries, but also it contributes in spreading peace and enhancing negotiation, comprehension, and exchanging cultures among people in the light of the increased tourist demand. Arab countries confronted fluctuation and instability in the number of tourist arrivals due to security disturbances, conflicts and the vanishing of peace opportunities. In this regard, this research reveals the urban features for some Arab countries in achieving peace tourism because it is considered as touristic destinations that enhance heritage tourism due to the existence of the whole touristic features. The study sheds the lights on both As-Salt (Jordan) and Constantine (Algeria) cities. For the purpose of highlighting the opportunities of peace tourism by its urban features for changing towards sustainability by adopting that combine tourism development, peace building, and heritage conservation in both Arab cities. The researchers also required the development of certain tactical techniques to attain clear results in the research, the study relied on qualitative research in reviewing many documents and research related to both tourism and peace. In addition, field investigations contributed to providing data and information during the period from (2015-2018), like that the observation and interviews conducted with the local community in both cities. Results of the research, represented mainly in the presence of opportunities for peace tourism, which are reinforced by the specificity of the urban characteristics of the two cities, and its clear role in establishing a culture of peace, understanding, dialogue and exchange of cultures, which requires defining a model for the relationship between the development of tourism, peace and heritage in the cities of Salt and Constantine and which is based on tourism planning with the effective participation of different stakeholders.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Beiner
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
The Political ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

An understanding of the historical dynamics of social forgetting can be learned from the detailed case study of the vernacular historiography of the 1798 Rebellion in Ulster. It has far-reaching implications for a more meaningful appreciation of the relationship between history and memory. The political impasse in post-conflict Northern Ireland, which has stumbled over disagreements on ‘dealing with the past’ in the context of finding acceptable arrangements for transitional justice, could benefit from showing more sensitivity, not only to the role of oral history storytelling, but also to ingrained traditions of ‘vernacular silence’ that perpetuate social forgetting. A brief inspection of some prominent twentieth-century examples demonstrates the wider relevance of studying social forgetting. In today’s digital age, explorations of social forgetting suggest new possibilities for reconciling conflicts between an inner duty to remember and the right to be outwardly forgotten.

scholarly journals El archivo y el testigo. Un análisis de la relación entre memoria y justicia a partir del caso colombiano

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-152
Author(s):  
Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Truth Commissions ◽  
Absolute Value ◽  
The Relationship

In memory studies and in the field of transitional justice, the story of the victims is usually seen as relevant. It is usually assumed that what is said by the victims has an absolute value of truth and cannot be controverted, otherwise we would be attacking their dignity. And, next to this, it is maintained that everything held by the perpetrators is false, and therefore we cannot believe absolutely in what they tell. But we have to take into account that neither perpetrator nor victims are witnesses, but, from a legal point of view, they are active parties in that social relationship we call crime. In this text, I want to discuss the relationship between the witness and the archive and for that I use the Colombian case as a case study. Initially I analyze the question of memory and later I analyze the relationships between truth and memory. With this text, I intend to contribute to the studies of transitional justice that take for granted, without further analysis, the validity of the documentary contributions or the stories of the victims and the witnesses. It is not a mere theoretical pretension, since it depends on the elaboration of truth criteria for both the criminal justice system and the Truth Commissions.

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