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Memory and Justice: Confronting Past Atrocity and Human Rights Abuse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This report examines the development of the movement to deal with the past from approximately 1983 to 2008 with an emphasis on the impact of Ford Foundation support, particularly from the Andean Region and Southern Cone office since the early 1990s.
Debra L. Schultz
core  

Vicious Pictures? How National Socialist Propaganda Glorifying Adolf Hitler Affects Contemporary Viewers' Emotions

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorifying Adolf Hitler influence these feelings. Prior scholars have raised concerns that such materials might communicate distorted images of the past
Lara Ditrich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Calling Genocide by Its Rightful Name: Lemkin\u27s Word, Darfur, and the UN Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
When the United Nations commission investigating Darfur issued its report in January 2005, it concluded that the Darfur atrocities represented war crimes and crimes against humanity, but not genocide. This had the harmful effect of deflating efforts
Luban, David
core   +1 more source

Rethinking Public Administration Reform: Institutional Layering of Bureaucratic, Managerial and Community Logics Over Time in Nigeria's Tax Administration

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The reform of public institutions has attracted sustained attention in both scholarship and policymaking. Increasingly, however, there is growing recognition that reforms are rarely implemented in an institutional vacuum. Instead, new reforms are layered onto existing arrangements, producing hybrid institutional landscapes shaped by prior ...
Edidiong Bassey
wiley   +1 more source

Genocide in the Lachin corridor? An investigation into the frameworks and conditions of atrocity crimes

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies
The Azerbaijani blockade of the Lachin corridor isolated 120,000 ethnic Armenians, including 30,000 children, living in Nagorno-Karabakh. For nine months, the region experienced shortages of water, electricity, medicine, and food.
Sophia King
doaj   +1 more source

Nineteen Minutes of Horror: Insights from the Scorpions Execution Video

open access: yesGenocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018
After the fall of Srebrenica in summer of 1995, the Scorpions unit, dispatched to support the Bosnian Serb Army as it took over the enclave, shot six men in Trnovo. The men, three of whom were underage, were some of thousands of Bosnian Muslims that fell
Iva Vukušić
doaj   +1 more source

Hitchcock, the holocaust, and the long take : 'memory of the camps' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In 1945, Alfred Hitchcock got involved in the production of a documentary film, which later would be called Memory of the Camps. Although Hitchcock's involvement in the project was rather minimal, his contribution interfered in an interesting way with ...
Jacobs, Steven
core   +2 more sources

Place attachment and attitudes to landscape change for tree planting and net zero

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract To reach net zero by 2050 the Paris Agreement on Climate Change recommended tree cover expansion and tree planting to support Nationally Determined Contributions. We use place attachment in the context of historical events to explore landscape change and attitudes towards tree planting.
Sheena Carlisle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Picturing the perpetrator [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There is considerable potential in examining images associated with atrocity that do not depict the actual act of violence or the victim itself, but rather depict the circumstances around which such acts occurred.
Lowe, Paul
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Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

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