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Guatemala in the 1980s: A Genocide Turned into Ethnocide?
Oettler, Anika - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006
the early 1980s, fundamental questions remain. Should we indeed speak of the massacres committed between 1981 and 1983 in … Guatemala as “genocide”, or would “ethnocide” be the more appropriate term? In addressing these questions, this paper focuses on … of subversion”? In Guatemala, the discourses of communist threat, racism and Pentecostal millenarism merged into the …
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“Schools Need to Wake Up!” Student Participants’ Calls for Human Rights Education
Gradwell, Jill M.; Rodeheaver, Misty; Dahlgren, Robert L. - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 10 (2015) 1, pp. 1-20
From labor conditions to public health and environmental justice, globalization has created an increasingly complex web of issues surrounding human rights. Research in social studies education points to adolescents’ intrinsic curiosity when engaged in these multiple issues, as well as their...
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The Montreal massacre : a story of membership categorization analysis
Eglin, Peter; Hester, Stephen - 2003
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Asymmetric information in the civil wars, the Colombian case
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to interpret the relationships between information networks and the armed conflict in Colombia. Over a period of paramilitary violence networks of informants were used with a strategic purpose. In fact, the paramilitaries were preparing each slaughter counting...
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Documentation: Reports by Human Rights and Victim Advocacy Organisations in Indonesia: Reconciling the Violence of 1965
Pohlman, Annie - In: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 32 (2013) 3, pp. 143-165
In February 2013, the conference “New Perspectives on the 1965 Violence in Indonesia” brought together community-based researchers and representatives from human rights and advocacy organisations across several regions of Indonesia to discuss new historical understandings about the tragedy...
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The Organisation of the Killings and the Interaction between State and Society in Central Java, 1965
Hammer, Mathias - In: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 32 (2013) 3, pp. 37-62
This article investigates how the Indonesian state organised the killing of approx. 100,000 communists and alleged communists in Central Java in 1965. It presents the argument that even though state institutions unleashed the killings and perpetrated much of the violence, the state’s control...
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Introduction: The Massacres of 1965–1966: New Interpretations and the Current Debate in Indonesia
Pohlman, Annie - In: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 32 (2013) 3, pp. 3-10
” or the “Indonesian massacres” of the mid-1960s, have remained a murky part of Indonesian history. …
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Networks information in the civil wars
Fernando Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The aim of this paper is to interpret the relationships between information networks and the civil wars (Colombia). Over a period of paramilitary violence networks of informants were used with a strategic purpose. In fact, the paramilitaries were preparing each slaughter counting information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529261
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Networks information in the civil wars
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The aim of this paper is to interpret the relationships between information networks and the civil wars (Colombia). Over a period of paramilitary violence networks of informants were used with a strategic purpose. In fact, the paramilitaries were preparing each slaughter counting information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109031
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Accounting for the dynamics of one-sided violence
Schneider, Gerald; Bussmann, Margit - In: Journal of Peace Research 50 (2013) 5, pp. 635-644
This article presents the Konstanz One-Sided Violence Event Dataset (KOSVED) which allows researchers to study the dynamics of civilian abuse in 17 civil wars. The dataset provides, based on a multitude of sources, detailed information on the number of civilians killed or harmed by government or...
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