Suchergebnisse

Ethnic cleansing : theoretical issues and concerns and new interpretation -- Historical background : evolution of Serb politics--from the state of Serbia to the single Serb state -- The frame for the picture of ethnic cleansing : common agenda, state and policy -- Ethnic cleansing : practice and its constitutive elements -- Murder as part of ethnic cleansing--attack on co-existence, past and future -- Detention camps and practices in the camps : moral attack on the victims -- Concealment and destruction of evidence : destroying the past -- Bringing ethnic cleansing home : crisis staff--key agent of destruction -- Ordinary Serbs' complicity in ethnic cleansing : no ordinary crime -- Ethnic cleansing in retrospect and some conclusions

Two recent cases of ethnic cleansing, in North & South Ossetia in the Caucasus, are examined to ascertain their impact on the communities involved & the degree to which such actions have produced solutions to long-standing problems instead of mere management of them at a tolerable level of violence. With similar clashes likely to occur elsewhere in the former USSR, it is hoped that some lessons be learned. Adapted from the source document.

TWO CASES OF RECENT ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE TERRITORIES OF NORTH AND SOUTH OSSETIA IN THE CAUCASUS ARE EXAMINED HERE, NOT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINS BUT RATHER TO LOOK AT THEIR IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITIES INVOLVED AND THE DEGREE TO WHICH SUCH ACTIONS HAVE PRODUCE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS OF LONG STANDING INSTEAD OF MERE MANAGEMENT OF THEM AT A TOLERABLE LEVEL OF VIOLENCE. WITH SIMILAR CLASHES LIKELY TO OCCUR ELSEWHERE IN THE TERRITORIES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION CAN ANY LESSONS BE LEARNED?

The Barents Encyclopedia will present comprehensive information about the progress of the Barents Region Project, the project to establish international collaboration across national borders through innovative organizational conceptualizations, an active promotion of a transborder regional identity, and the introduction of new forms of regional governance in the most densely populated and industrialized part of the Arctic. Articles in the encyclopedia will discuss the historical roots of current developments and review the cultural, socio-economic, and political prerequisites for a continued and intensified transborder interaction among citizens inhabiting the Barents Region, a territory so designated through the signing of the 1993 Kirkenes Declaration.

In a speech made on 3 July 2009 to the 'Marxism 2009' conference in London, the author examines the roots and development of ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka from British colonial rule to the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in 2009. Sri Lanka today is at the cross-roads between parliamentary dictatorship and fascism.