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Offers fresh insights on the so-called 'justice versus peace'
dilemma, examining the challenges and prospects for promoting both
peace and accountability, specifically in African countries
affected by conflict or political violence. The chapters in this
volume consider a wide range of approaches to accountability and
peacebuilding. These include not only domestic courts and
tribunals, hybrid tribunals, or the International Criminal Court,
but also truth commissions and informal or non-state justice and
conflict resolution processes. Taken together, they demonstrate the
wealth of experiences and experimentation in transitional justice
processes on the continent. CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM is Professor of
Human Rights at the School of Law, University of East London,
United Kingdom. She is also the Chair of the International Studies
Association Human Rights Section and consults on issues of
governance and conflict prevention for the United Nations
Development Programme. SUREN PILLAY is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Political Studies at the University of the Western
Cape, South Africa, and a Senior Research Specialistin the
Democracy and Governance programme of the Human Sciences Research
Council. Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho,
Swaziland, Botswana & Namibia): University of KwaZulu-Natal
Press
This book examines the role of post-conflict memorial arts in
bringing about gender justice in transitional societies. Art and
post-violence memorialisation are currently widely debated.
Scholars of human rights and of commemorative arts discuss the
aesthetics and politics not only of sites of commemoration, but of
literature, poetry, visual arts and increasingly, film and comics.
Art, memory and activism are also increasingly intertwined. But
within the literature around post-conflict transitional justice and
critical human rights studies, there is little questioning about
what memorial arts do for gender justice, how women and men are
included and represented, and how this intertwines with other
questions of identity and representation, such as race and
ethnicity. The book brings together research from scholars around
the world who are interested in the gendered dimensions of
memory-making in transitional societies. Addressing a global range
of cases, including genocide, authoritarianism, civil war,
electoral violence and apartheid, they consider not only the
gendered commemoration of past violence, but also the possibility
of producing counter-narratives that unsettle and challenge
established stereotypes. Aimed at those interested in the fields of
transitional justice, memory studies, post-conflict peacebuilding,
human rights and gender studies, this book will appeal to
academics, researchers and practitioners.
This book examines the role of post-conflict memorial arts in
bringing about gender justice in transitional societies. Art and
post-violence memorialisation are currently widely debated.
Scholars of human rights and of commemorative arts discuss the
aesthetics and politics not only of sites of commemoration, but of
literature, poetry, visual arts and increasingly, film and comics.
Art, memory and activism are also increasingly intertwined. But
within the literature around post-conflict transitional justice and
critical human rights studies, there is little questioning about
what memorial arts do for gender justice, how women and men are
included and represented, and how this intertwines with other
questions of identity and representation, such as race and
ethnicity. The book brings together research from scholars around
the world who are interested in the gendered dimensions of
memory-making in transitional societies. Addressing a global range
of cases, including genocide, authoritarianism, civil war,
electoral violence and apartheid, they consider not only the
gendered commemoration of past violence, but also the possibility
of producing counter-narratives that unsettle and challenge
established stereotypes. Aimed at those interested in the fields of
transitional justice, memory studies, post-conflict peacebuilding,
human rights and gender studies, this book will appeal to
academics, researchers and practitioners.
As part of the ongoing and necessary effort to create a UN that is
truly representative of all its members, this title attempts to
present the African perspective far more clearly and persuasively
than has previously been the case. The argument in the title can be
summed up in this excerpt: "Africa and the West have engaged in a
"dialogue of the deaf " at the UN and other international forums
since the continent's "lost decade" of the 1980s. The dialogue runs
as follows: Africans call for an annulment of what they see as an
unpayable external debt of $290 billion and note that they have
paid back $550 billion out of an initial debt of $540 billion
between 1970 and 2002; the West continues to roll over the debt and
offers periodic "debt relief" for an ailing African patient.
Africans call for the West to meet aid targets of 0.7 per cent of
Gross National Product (GNP) set as far back as 1970; the West
responds by continuing to maintain average annual aid levels of
about 0.3 per cent and to make persistent unmet promises to reach
the target of 0.7 per cent. Finally, Africans call on the rich
world to live up to its free trade principles by eliminating
agricultural subsidies that prevent the continent from growing out
of poverty; the West continues to maintain subsidies of over $311
billion that by 2001 had surpassed the entire economic strength of
sub-Saharan Africa." This title is a contribution to African
efforts to engage the UN to achieve these noble goals.
My Horse, My Heart: The Morgan Horses of the University of
Connecticut is the story of the UConn-bred Morgan horse. Sturdy,
strong and proud-each foal born in the UConn barns can be traced
back to the magnificent Morgan horses bred for the cavalry at the
United States Government Horse Farm in Vermont. It is also the
story of the many students, owners, trainers and breeders who loved
them. The Morgans of UConn are so much more than the herd stallions
and the broodmares. They are the foals that grow up to be
Champions, teachers, partners and best friends. They are the horses
that can elicit the joy of younger days, trotting in a dusty show
ring under a summer sun, and walking out with a ribbon clipped to
the bridle. There are trunkfuls of those ribbons, somewhere, each
one holding a proud memory of that special horse: the UConn-bred
Morgan. "The blood of the brave steeds that carried men into battle
still courses through the veins of the University of Connecticut
Morgan horse. The UConn Morgan is truly America's horse, and their
bravery, beauty and stamina is legendary. "And, if you look into
the eyes of a UConn Morgan, you will see a faraway flame, the
generations of the lives they touched." Excerpt from My Horse, My
Heart: The Morgan Horses of the University of Connecticut by Helen
Scanlon
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