History of Conflicts and Political Violence

Call for papers by Lebanon Support History of Conflicts in Lebanon. A Critical Perspective - دعوة للمساهمات من قبل مركز دعم لبنان تاريخ النزاعات في لبنان. منظورٌ نقدي

History of Conflicts in Lebanon. A Critical Perspective

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History of Conflicts
Lebanon

Reconciling with the Past, Countering Amnesia-التصالح مع الماضي، ومواجهة فقدان الذاكرة

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Ghassan Halwani and the reclaiming of Lebanon's imaginaries

With Lebanon’s Revolution closing in on its second month, the Lebanese scholar Jamil Mouawad listed “discursive hegemony and control over the imaginaries” as one of the three pillars of the sectarian regime1 being challenged by protesters. 
 

“Like an ant that digs into the rock:” Wadad Halwani and the struggle of the families of the missing and the forcefully disappeared

“This not about my personal story. This is a story that affected many people, and I am just one example of it. Of course we all had some kind of background, a life before. For example, I was always rebellious and active in fighting for my rights, at home, in school, in university, it was as if life was somehow preparing me for what happened afterwards. And in 1982 I got dragged into this cause that was bigger than me and bigger than anything I have ever lived. From that moment on, it occupied me completely.

Tatimma Issue 3

Conflicts, abuses, repression, and human rights violations always leave a bitter taste when proper mourning to achieve personal or communal healing is cutoff by indifference, and politics of amnesia.

International law clearly recognises the right of victims and survivors to know about the circumstances of serious violations of their human rights and about who was responsible for their suffering.

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