Large-Scale Victimisation as a Potential Source of Terrorist Activities : Importance of Regaining Security in Post-Conflict Societies.
Title:
Large-Scale Victimisation as a Potential Source of Terrorist Activities : Importance of Regaining Security in Post-Conflict Societies.
Author:
Ewald, U.
ISBN:
9781607502142
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (308 pages)
Series:
NATO Security through Science Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics
Contents:
Title page -- Preface -- Contents -- Large-Scale War Victimization and Terrorism -- Magnitudes and Focus of Terrorist Victimization -- International Terrorism: Large-Scale Victimization -- Regaining Trust and Confidence in Post-Conflict Societies as a Way to Prevent Terrorism -- What Victimology Has to Offer in the Fight Against Terrorism -- General Understanding and Victimological Research of Large-Scale Victimization -- Between Sacrification and Victimization: On Political Semantics and Its Strategic Functions -- Victimization in Wars - A Framework for Further Inquiry -- Protracted War, Terrorism and Mass Victimization: Exploring Victimological/Criminological Concepts and Theories to Address Victimization in Israel -- The Self-Traumatized Perpetrator: From Vietnam to Abu Ghraib -- Researching War Victimization Through the Deconstruction of Organized Crime -- Hate Crimes and Their Practical Use in Risk Assessment and Terrorism Prevention -- Role of the International Criminal Justice from the Perspective of Victims -- The Fight Against Impunity and the Establishment of the International Criminal Court -- Large-Scale Victimization and Small-Scale Trials: Selection Criteria and the Use of Sampling Techniques in the Investigation of International Crimes -- Large-Scale Victimisation and the Jurisprudence of the ICTY - Victimological Research Issues - -- Experiences of the Victims and Witnesses Section at the I.C.T.Y. -- Genocide's Orphan: The 1979 Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary -- Victim Assistance and Restorative Justice in Post-Conflict Societies -- How to Deal with Mass Victimization and Gross Human Rights Violations. A Restorative Justice Approach -- Mental Health in the Wake of War and Terrorism: Lessons from Humanitarian Experience in Victim Rehabilitation -- Necessity to Reconstruct War-Affected Communities in Order to Counter-Terrorism.
Rebuilding War-Affected Societies: Implementing the 'Responsibility to Protect' Agenda -- Post-Conflict Peace-Building as Terrorism Prevention -- Barriers to Social Reconstruction of Communities in the Aftermath of Organized Violence -- The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Post-Conflict Reconstruction -- Author Index.
Abstract:
This publication presents a subject that is, unfortunately, as significant today as it was two years ago. Sadly, this continuing relevance seems to confirm the views of the German radical pacifist Kurt Tucholsky, who stated in response to the atrocities and sufferings of WWI: "But men never ever learnt from history, and they will not do so in the future. Hic Rhodus!" Recent events in Iraq, the Middle East, East Timor or the Democratic Republic of Congo, and possible links regarding issues of terrorism, raise the question what criminological and victimological research offers in assisting to break vicious spirals of ignorance of gross human rights violations and the immense human sufferings in the context of armed conflicts and terrorism. The answer to this question still remains open. Yet, this publication confirms the substantial willingness to 'learn' from the past by critically reviewing large-scale victimisation arising out of protracted conflicts in order to better understanding the necessary prerequisites for enduring peace-making in post-conflict societies and to anticipate and suggest approaches to healing victimising effects.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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