Digital Commons Network^™

Rehumanization Among Veterans Of The Yugoslav Wars: Rethinking Reconciliation And Post-Conflict Justice, Jordan N. Kiper

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Rehumanization is a central element in powerful social movements after war. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in the Balkans, I consider the convergence and divergence between notions of rehumanization found in human rights literature and the role of rehumanization among veterans in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. Rehumanization plays a prominent role among these veterans because of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which has had varied social effects on Balkan communities. By supporting the ICTY, veteran associations have vetted themselves of potential war criminals, and thereby developed overlapping justice discourses that converge on the notion of reconciliation. There are …

The Democratization Of Suffering Through Art Practices, Laura Kanost, Lucía Garavito

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Colombia has experienced nearly six decades of violent confrontations between agents of the State, the paramilitary, guerrilla groups, and narcotraffickers. Between 1958 and 2018 there were 4,210 massacres, 214,584 civilians and 46,675 combatants killed, 79,245 civilians “disappeared,” and over seven million internally displaced individuals.

Almost 70% of this violence has occurred in rural areas, far from urban centers where the population is concentrated. This cartography correlates to polarization between sectors that experienced armed conflict, and sectors that witnessed these events mainly through the media. These contrasting experiences shape views on peace and reconciliation.

Art can bridge these “two Colombias” through …

Stumbling Through: Building And Creating Space For Non-Indigenous Decolonization From A Non-Indigenous Perspective, Cortney Baldwin

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper utilizes theory and research to explore, create and reflect on building space for non-Indigenous people to begin to stumble through dialogue around decolonization and Reconciliation from a non-Indigenous perspective.