scholarly journals Association joint action for truth and reconciliation: Coordination of civil society initiatives and increasing of social visibility of third way toward facing the past

Temida ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic ◽  
Natasa Hanak
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Joint Action ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Visibility

In this paper the activities and results of the work within Victimology Society of Serbia project "From remembering the past toward positive future" during 2005 are presented. In addition, plans for the future are presented as well. Special attention is given to the establishment of Association Joint action for truth and reconciliation as well as to the promotion of Third way toward facing the past.

scholarly journals Association joint action for truth and reconciliation: Activities in 2006 and plans for the future

Temida ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic ◽  
Danijela Bjelic
Keyword(s):  
Joint Action ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Public ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Visibility

In this paper the detailed overview of 2006 activities of Association Joint action FOR truth and reconciliation, as well as main directions of its expected actions in 2007, is given. During 2006 the activities of the Association were primarily oriented toward its own development, including defining aims and basic values, as well as empowerment and mutual support of its members. The second part of activities was oriented to the public promotion of the idea of "third way" and the Association itself. Activities in 2006 included: activities oriented toward development of Association, development of resource center and research, activities in direction of increasing social visibility of Association, as well as activities oriented toward development of cooperation and promotion of "third way" in other parts of the former Yugoslavia. .

An Incomplete Journey Away from the Past: The Life and Ideas of Antonius Ameuney (1821–1881)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 318-338
Author(s):  
Anthony Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
English Speaking

Abstract This article recovers a dissonant voice from the nineteenth-century nahḍa. Antonius Ameuney (1821–1881) was a fervent Protestant and staunch Anglophile. Unlike his Ottoman Syrian contemporaries, who argued for religious diversity and the formation of a civil society based on a shared Arab past, he believed that the only geopolitical Syria viable in the future was one grounded in Protestant virtues and English values. This article examines Ameuney’s complicated journey to become a Protestant Englishman and his inescapable characterization as a son of Syria. It charts his personal life and intellectual career and explores how he interpreted the religious, cultural, political, and linguistic landscape of his birthplace to British audiences. As an English-speaking Ottoman Syrian intellectual residing permanently in London, the case of Antonius Ameuney illustrates England to have been a constitutive site of the nahḍa and underscores the role played by the British public in shaping nahḍa discourses.

scholarly journals The Art and Science of Planning a Garden's Future

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Ed Ikin
Keyword(s):  
Art And Science ◽  
Third Way ◽  
External Consultants ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Successful long-term plans for gardens require creativity and objectivity and need to include the insight of the horticultural teams caring for them. Garden plans take different forms and there are rival schools of thought about the merits of using external consultants or authoring exclusively in house. This essay makes the case for a ‘third way’, blending the skills of internal and external teams, and shows how the past can inspire the future.

Who makes the world? Academics and (un)cancelling the future

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-427
Author(s):  
Leonie Holthaus ◽  
Nils Stockmann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Policy Advice ◽  
Homogenous Group ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Line ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

In this essay, we consider the role of academics as change-makers. There is a long line of reflection about academics’ sociopolitical role(s) in international relations (IR). Yet, our attempt differs from available considerations in two regards. First, we emphasize that academics are not a homogenous group. While some keep their distance from policymakers, others frequently provide policy advice. Hence, positions and possibilities of influence differ. Second, our argument is not oriented towards the past but the future. That is, we develop our reflections on academics as change-makers by outlining the vision of a ‘FutureLab’, an innovative, future forum that brings together different world-makers who are united in their attempt to improve ‘the world'. Our vision accounts for current, perhaps alarming trends in academia, such as debates about the (in)ability to confront post-truth politics. Still, it is a (critically) optimistic one and can be read as an invitation for experimentation. Finally, we sympathize with voices demanding the democratization of academia and find that further cross-disciplinary dialogues within academia and dialogues between different academics, civil society activists and policymakers may help in finding creditable solutions to problems such as climate change and populism.

Is the societal dialogue at the local level the future of social dialogue?

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Yves Boulin ◽  
Ulrich Mückenberger
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Local Time ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Supranational Level

The modern ‘network society’ restructures the system of ‘voice’ as it has come down from the past. Decision-making is drifting away from particular plants, organisations and institutions, and is becoming fluid — whereas voice remains fixed to plants, organisations and institutions. The tentative thesis put forward in this article is that only both regional/local and global ‘voice networking’ may be capable of coping with the decision-making character of the network society. This leads to efforts to integrate, into the bargaining processes, also representatives of civil society — NGOs on a European and supranational level, various ‘stakeholders' on a local and regional level. This gives two new roles to social dialogue: it has to take place not only on a sectoral, but also on a territorial level (‘la négociation sociale territorialisée’); and it has to ‘open up’ towards the territorial stakeholders (‘le dialogue sociétal’). Local time policies are taken as an example for such a new function of territorial social dialogue.

scholarly journals Picturing truth and reconciliation

Temida ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
Marian Liebmann
Keyword(s):  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

This is an account of the workshop run at the conference Truth and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia: Where are we now and where to go? Even in such a short workshop, it seemed that it was possible to share difficult areas of the past, and move on to looking at hopes for the future. The use of art materials seemed to facilitate the expression of aspects difficult to put into words. There seems to be potential for extending this method. Yet it is not without its dangers, if used with a vulnerable group of people, or in an insecure situation, or in an insensitive way. It could open doors which are difficult to shut again. The ability of art to bring up memories and emotions is both its strength and its risk.

Towards a Narrative Pachacutic

Andean Truths ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 107-133
Author(s):  
Anne Lambright
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Reconciliation Process ◽  
Andean Culture

This chapter studies Rosa Cuchillo (1997), by indigenous-mestizo writer, Oscar Colchado Lucio. Narrated by three indigenous characters, the novel portrays both the Shining Path’s and the state’s inability to understand indigenous Andean culture, while modeling an Andean-driven truth and reconciliation process. The novel relies almost exclusively on Andean characters who call upon autochthonous discourse, knowledge, and spirituality to create an Andean historical, political and affective archive that contrasts with that created and disseminated through other, official processes. In recounting the past and imagining the future, Rosa Cuchillo becomes a model of “intercultural communication” and “epistemological decolonization” (Quijano), and by channeling the therapeutic processing of the conflict through Andean modes of interpretation, it suggests one outcome could be a cultural, if not political, Pachacutec—an Andean revolution.

Listening to thunder in the silence on Tiananmen: Politics and ethics of the memory of the June Fourth Movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 0920203X2095656
Author(s):  
Bin Xu
Keyword(s):  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fourth Movement ◽  
The Future ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
Repressive Regime ◽  
Reconciliation Process

‘Forgetting’ has been widely used in academic and public discourses of the memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Incident. The term, however, is conceptually unclear, empirically ineffective, and ethically problematic. Conceptually, it relies on a problematic assumption that silence means forgetting. Empirically, it lumps together different states of memory: ‘don’t remember, don’t talk about, don’t know, and don’t care.’ Ethically, it allows a broad, unjust moral accusation of those who remember but remain silent for various reasons. I argue that ‘silence’ provides greater conceptual precision, more analytical subtlety, and less ethical liability. Silence does not mean forgetting. Nor does it always mean the complete absence of sound. Rather, it refers to the absence of certain discourses about the past. I propose a perspective based on different forms of silence – ‘silencing, silenced, and silent’ – and illustrate it in an analysis of the memory of Tiananmen. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the analysis shows that the Chinese state initially intended to create a ‘covert silence’ – forcing people to remember rather than forget the official stories and silencing other narratives – and then an ‘overt silence’ in which all mention of the event was absent. Even underneath overt silence, however, are various experiences with ambiguities and nuances. The term silence also recognizes individuals’ ethical-political dilemmas under a repressive regime and aims to provide a language for an equal and inclusive truth-and-reconciliation process in the future.

scholarly journals Tantangan kontemporer organisasi masyarakat sipil dalam gerakan hak asasi manusia

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Halili Halili
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Future Challenge ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges

Civil Society Organizations play a significant role in movement of human rights. CSO's face shifting contemporary challenges, namelY, betrayal against values of human rights and weaknesses of state sovereignty. These new challenges strive for CSO's to conduct some action in two ways: retrospective paradigm and prospective one. In one hand, they should do war against forget in the past viola­tions of human rights. In the other hand, tbey have to respond progressivelY the future challenge of human rights.

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