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Complex Political Victims (Paperback)
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Complex Political Victims (Paperback)
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This book reframes major events like South Africa's Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, the Holocaust, and the war in Bosnia to
take into account the ""complex victim"". It calls for a more
effective and encompassing support of all types of victims,
especially those not typically recognized as such. Images of the
political victim are powerful, gripping, and integral in helping us
makes sense of conflict, particularly in making moral calculations,
determining who is ""good"" and who is ""evil."" These images, and
the discourse of victimization that surrounds them, inform the
international community when deciding to recognize certain
individuals as victims and play a role in shaping response
policies. These policies in turn create the potential for long
term, stable peace after episodes of political victimization.
Bouris finds weighty problems with this dichotomous conception of
actors in a conflict, which pervades much of contemporary
peacebuilding scholarship. She instead argues that victims, much
like the conflicts themselves, are complex. Rather than use this
complexity as a way to dismiss victims or call for limits on the
response from the international community, the book advocates for
greater and more effective responses to conflict.
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