The Future of the Past: Reflections on the Present State and Prospects of Transitional Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-259
Author(s):  
Pablo de Greiff
Author(s):  
Louisa Yee-Sum Lee ◽  
Philip L. Pearce

Abstract This chapter considers tourism development in Bangkok from the past to the present, and then ventures on to examine the city's future. The analysis introduces how the evolution of the city, its urbanization and the overall growth of Thai tourism more generally have shaped the present state of Bangkok. The chapter draws on existing literature augmented by in-depth interviews; specifically, six significant and influential interviewees from both the private and public sectors of Bangkok help reveal how the past and present are shaping the future of tourism in the city.


Author(s):  
Станислав Борзых ◽  
Stanislav Borzyh

This book offers a special view on the culture from the position of evolution theory. It begins with definition of culture and concludes that it is a way, by which those species who possess it survive like that do those who have, say, claws, teeth or wings or any other such device and contraption. In this light culture is the same as these features and nothing more. Therefore, it can be recognized and detected in many species and not only in humans. Culture also consists of special units, which can be comparable to instruments or technologies we have. They too are the subjects to evolutionary processes and so they develop and become more complicated during the time. Thus, it is supposed that culture has developed as it is characteristic for all living organisms and all their organs and treats. In fact and in essence culture is a specifically human or otherwise way of survival, our own answer on those natural conditions, in which we found ourselves in the past and which surrounded us in those times we became separate species. Besides there are scrutinized the past, the present and the future of culture through the lens of its new understanding. All what happened in our history though wasn’t in any sense anticipated nevertheless was logical and consistent with stimuli on which we reacted. And this includes civilization as well as the present state of things and affairs without some exceptions. We are only primates who try to survive with those instruments and means we possess, and nothing more than this.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 243-251
Author(s):  
George Mihalas ◽  
Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar

Objectives: The paper presents a review of the history of medical informatics in Romania, starting from the pioneering works, relating the present, and foreseeing the future. Methods: Major milestones of the development of this field have not been simply enumerated, but described within the specific socio-political frame, grasping the entire context over the last four decades in Romania. Two main perspectives have been traced: education and training in medical informatics and implementations in healthcare. Results: Four distinctive historical periods are identified and the major events of each period are described in a critical manner. The history of the Romanian Society of Medical Informatics is presented in a separate chapter. The last section is dedicated to the present state of the field in Romania. Conclusion: The history of Romanian Medical Informatics spans many years and is rich in content. The Romanian Society of Medical Informatics is mainly the result of the efforts undertaken by an enthusiastic and sound professional community, trying to continue the tradition, to achieve new goals, and to work as an active member of the international biomedical/health informatics community.


Author(s):  
Raed Ali Alsaoud Alqasass

This study examines Ghasan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun as a representative novella of the Palestinian identity crisis among the Palestinian refugees in the aftermath of the Nakba in 1948. Kanafani’s emplotment of this identity crisis is couched in a diasporic narrative that lays bare a double plot, one before 1948 and another following it. The narrative split reveals a sharp contrast between the present state of the characters on their journey to Kuwait, the promised land, and the past as revealed in their reminiscences of homeland. The paradisaic images of homeland are woven with images of Hellish existence under the scorching sun of the desert. This double narrative is indicative of the split psyche of the characters which is symptomatic of an identity crisis. Their pursuit of a way out of this conflicting state ends with a collective, tragic disillusionment; they end up dead and thrown on a garbage heap without even a proper burial place. Kanafani weaves the different mini narrative threads into one tragic denouement since his novella is not about the fate of individual characters but that of a nation. The silence of the characters prior to their death is a Kanafanian prophecy of the future of the Palestinian Cause after it has lost its power of speech and ended, like the characters, dead on the garbage heap of history.


2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 137-161
Author(s):  
Jasna Vlajic-Popovic

After an introductory overview of previous achievements in the field, abroad and at home, during the 19th and 20th centuries, this paper deals with the present state of Serbian etymology (i.e. etymology of the Serbian language) among the Serbs which, for several decades now, has been closely related to the Etymological Department of the Serbian Language Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Following an explanation of elements of the etymological analysis, we offer a comparison of the methodologies applied in compiling the two dictionaries presently under development at the Department, a thesaurus-type Etimoloski recnik srpskoga jezika (ERSJ - Etymological Dictionary of the Serbian Language) and the concise Prirucni etimoloski recnik srpskoga jezika (PERSJ - Concise Etymological Dictionary of the Serbian Language). Finally, we present a preliminary projection of the future development of Serbian etymology with a suggested agenda.


The introductory chapter opens up the question of how to approach the aftermath of the Terror. Most of revolutionary historiography is focused on the origins of the event, not on its aftermath. This chapter argues that there is much to learn about the French Revolution and its relevance to our own times by studying the aftermath of the Terror. In articulating the book’s approach to the subject, the chapter draws on the recent literature on transitional justice and trauma, as well as on the much earlier ideas of Edgar Quinet. Approaching the aftermath of the Terror invites us to consider how those who had experienced revolutionary violence faced the past in the context of a movement oriented toward the future.


2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
José-Miguel Bello y Villarino

Ramona Vijeyarasa recently published in this journal an article advocating for the law in general, and legislation in particular, to be gender responsive. She argued that to redress gender inequality, the law must address the different needs and position of women. Here I propose a bigger scope for the intervention needed to redress legally-originated gender inequality. I contend that a system of transitional justice for women is necessary. This intervention, based on the equity principle of fairness and a need to repair a damage caused by the law, is proposed as a temporary measure until adequate redress is provided.


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