After Mass Crime

by Pouligny, Beatrice; Chesterman, Simon; Schnabel, Albrecht

• ISBN13: 9789280811384
• ISBN10: 928081138X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

International interventions in the aftermath of mass violence tend to focus on justice and reconciliation processes, elections, and institution-building. The frame of reference is at the state level, although the experience of crime by a population is also at the level of the community and individuals. Insufficient attention has been paid to the radical transformations in community and individual belief systems and codes of conduct after the experience of mass crime. This book seeks to bridge the divide by offering a transdisciplinary analysis of the impact of mass crime on the rebuilding of social and political relations.Drawing on historical and more recent cases --including examples from Bosnia- Herzegovina, Burundi, Cambodia, Indonesia, Peru, and Rwanda --the authors examine the impact of mass crimes on individuals, society at large, and the organizations involved in providing assistance in the post-conflict phase. While outside actors have a role to play in this difficult process, the hardest work must be done by those picking up the pieces of a community that has turned on itself.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction: Picking up the pieces	p. 1
Methodology and ethics
Methodological and ethical problems: A trans-disciplinary approach	p. 19
Contested memories: Peace-building and community rehabilitation after violence and mass crimes - A medico-anthropological approach	p. 41
Individuals and communities
The uses and abuses of culture: Cultural competence in post-mass-crime peace-building in Cambodia	p. 71
Intimate enemies: Reconciling the present in post-war communities in Ayacucho, Peru	p. 97
Origins and aftermaths: The dynamics of genocide in Rwanda and their post-genocide implications	p. 122
"You can't run away": Former combat soldiers and the role of social perception in coping with war experience in the Balkans	p. 142
Memories and representations
Mass murder, the politics of memory and post-genocide reconstruction: The cases of Rwanda and Burundi	p. 165
Speaking from the shadows: Memory and mass violence in Bali	p. 190
Shaping political identity through historical discourse: The memory of Soviet mass crimes	p. 215
Insiders and outsiders
External contributions to post-mass-crime rehabilitation	p. 243
Re-imagining peace after mass crime: A dialogical exchange between insider and outsider knowledge	p. 271
Selected Bibliography	p. 288
Index	p. 307
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