ABSTRACT
This book brings together a diverse range of international voices from academia, policymaking and civil society to address the failure to connect historical dialogue with atrocity prevention discourse and provide insight into how conflict histories and historical memory act as dynamic forces, actively facilitating or deterring current and future conflict.
Established on a variety of international case studies combining theoretical and practical points of view, the book envisions an integrated understanding of how historical dialogue can inform policy, education, and the practice of atrocity prevention. In doing so, it provides a vital basis for the development of preventive policies sensitive to the importance of conflict histories and for further academic study on the topic.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students of history, psychology, peace studies, international relations and political science.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|9 pages
Preventing mass atrocities
part I|77 pages
Historical commissions
chapter 3|19 pages
Historical commissions in Germany since the 1990s
chapter 4|23 pages
Attempted transitional justice and historical dialogue
part II|42 pages
Education
chapter 8|18 pages
Dialogue in the trenches
part III|83 pages
Museums
chapter 10|28 pages
Museums and memorials as sites of dialogue
part IV|71 pages
Art and visual interventions