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The war’s over; now the real trouble starts

by Eranda Jayawickreme
There are good reasons to celebrate the Sri Lankan government’s final victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels last week. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were one of the most brutal and repressive terrorist organizations in the world, with a crypto-fascist ideology focused on the personality cult of their now-slain leader [...]


Conflict and Visual Culture online galleries

Asch’s newest project is up and running!  Under the direction of Associate Director for Conflict and Visual Culture Initiatives Jonathan Hyman, the Asch network is expanding to include photographers, fine artists and filmmakers exploring the interaction between conflict and visual expression.   We look forward to new kinds of collaboration and cross-pollination as a result [...]

The Program in Film Studies
at Bryn Mawr College
welcomes
Etelle Higonnet

executive producer
WEAPON
a film about sexual violence and War Crimes in Cote d’Ivoire
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Carpenter B21
4-6pm

Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies: Contestation and Symbolic Landscapes

From cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper to displays of the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina statehouse, acts of cultural significance have set off political conflicts and sometimes violence. These and other expressions and enactments of culture–whether in music, graffiti, sculpture, flag displays, parades, religious rituals, or film–regularly produce divisive and sometimes [...]

Children and War Conference: April 3-5, 2009

The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University–Camden is sponsoring an international conference on the topic of “Children and War” to be held April 3-5, 2009. Rutgers–Camden is a leader in the national and international discourse on the state of children and childhood both at home and internationally.
The impact of war and armed conflict on [...]

Apologies and International Reconciliation - Asch seminar Monday 3/23/09

Jennifer Lind
Dartmouth College
Governments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to promote reconciliation between former adversaries. Lind challenges the conventional wisdom by showing that many countries have been able to reconcile without much in the way of apologies or [...]

Marc Ross wins award for latest book

At the 2009 International Studies Association in New York, Marc Ross’s recent book, Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict (Cambridge University Press)  received the Best Book Award in Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration from the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Studies Section.
Here is a link to the book on the publisher’s web site: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521690324

Kaufmann on partition

Chaim Kaufmann, from Lehigh University’s International Relations department, spoke at Asch on February 24th.  Here is a brief summary:
Academia, human rights organizations, and governments agree: partition is no solution to communal conflict. Indeed partition is just another name for ethnic cleansing   Chaim Kaufmann has a radically different view, based on years of study of dozens [...]

Political Radicalization: Are We Winning the War of Ideas Against Jihadi Terrorism?

President Jane Dammen McAuliffe
cordially invites you to a lecture by
The Rachel Hale Professor in
Science and Mathematics
Clark R. McCauley
“Political Radicalization:
Are We Winning the War of Ideas
Against Jihadi Terrorism?”
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
4 p.m.
Thomas 110 - Bryn Mawr College

Reception to follow in The London Room, Thomas Hall
Clark McCauley uses a pyramid model of radicalization to argue that sympathy [...]

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