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Drawing on a number of towns and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the center East, the gathering explores the post-conflict because it is lived and expressed in sleek towns reminiscent of Berlin, Belfast, Bilbao, Beirut, Derry, Skopje, Sarajevo, Tunis, Johannesburg and Harare. Post-Conflict functionality, movie and visible Arts: towns of reminiscence investigates how the reminiscence of clash could be inscribed in old monuments, human our bodies and hermeneutic acts of mapping, traversing, representing, and acting town. numerous essays discover the family among reminiscence, heritage and concrete house; the place reminiscence is found and the way it truly is narrated, in addition to numerous points of embodied reminiscence; testimonial reminiscence; worrying reminiscence; counter-memory; fake reminiscence; post-memory. different essays learn the representations of post-war towns and the way cultural imaginations relate to the politics of reconstruction in areas devastated through protracted city struggle. Post-Conflict functionality, movie and visible Arts: towns of reminiscence deals a comparative survey of the advanced and sometimes debatable encounters among public artwork, political reminiscence and commemoration in divided societies, in addition to providing insights into the political and moral problems of balancing the dynamics of forgetting and remembering.
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The trauma for the Dutch is not that their troops committed crimes or even that they were guilty by omission. Rather, the traumatic core seems to be the uncertain accountability that has arisen from a complex national/international chain of command, where military considerations and political priorities continually tripped each other up, with fatal con- PARADOXES AND PARAPRAXES 23 sequences for thousands of Bosnians. Alongside this formally structured military-bureaucratic accountability there emerged an unstructured, spontaneous and self-defined responsibility, on behalf of the Dutch people via its government, to offer humanitarian assistance, which failed to prevent the death of so many people, thereby bringing sharply to light the incommensurability of the two objectives: peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance.
Thus, one of locals explains that he is taking up arms to defend the village, not because he speaks Hungarian and this is a Hungarian village inside Croatia, but simply because the village has been there some 800 years, and it is those 800 years he wants to defend. This is why he also tells the international mercenaries that he will not be fighting outside or beyond the village boundaries, whether for Croats, or against Serbs. Chico is poor cinema at its most inventive, telling its story through flashbacks PARADOXES AND PARAPRAXES 33 and looped narrative strands that we have to pick up as best we can.
This surprising number has obliged many European countries to address the PARADOXES AND PARAPRAXES 19 long-term consequences of genocide (as in the case of Germans, coming to terms with the Holocaust committed in their name), the legacy of colonialism (as in France), civil war and military coups (as in Spain and Portugal), as well as secession and ethnic cleansing (the Balkans), terrorist action, civil unrest and sectarian violence (as in Britain and Northern Ireland). In other parts of the world, and even before September 2001, conflicts and post-conflict situations have also been increasingly frequent (or never ceased), becoming ever more destabilising and difficult to manage: think of South Africa, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Nigeria; think Syria, Egypt, Libya, not to mention Israel and Palestine, North and South Korea; think Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Bolivia in Latin America.