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11 - Hope(s) after Genocide
- from Part III - Repair and Commemoration
- Edited by Thomas Brudholm, University of Copenhagen, Johannes Lang
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Philosopher Margaret Urban Walker addresses the nature—and affirms the value—of hope for survivors in the aftermath of mass atrocity. Hope, in Walker’s view, is a central good in human life and an indispensable feature of moral reconstruction after mass violence. Its signature configuration is “a desire that some perceived good come to realization; a belief that it is at least (even if barely) possible; and an alert openness to, absorption in, or an active pursuit of, the desired possibility.” Walker’s affirmation of hope (for understanding, for truth, for justice, and so on) as a resource after mass atrocities is utterly unsentimental. Sometimes, affirmations of hope (along with forgiveness, trust, and healing) can be insensitive to the depth of genocidal destruction and its impact on the victims or survivors. Walker steers clear of such a falsely redemptive discourse and does not deny that some survivor may live in a space beyond all hope. Yet she also avoids the opposite danger, that of denying hope—an intellectual move that she claims de-individualizes and potentially dehumanizes the survivor.
Chapter 1 - Troubles with Truth Commissions: Putting the Moral Aims of Truth Commissions to the Fore
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- The Performance of Memory as Transitional Justice
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‘There would be such a thing as “the truth about the past” only if there were one most basic question about the past that was the concern of those inquiring into it, and there is no such question’.
Bernard Williams, Truth and TruthfulnessThe rapid proliferation of truth commissions has attracted intense and sustained attention. Depending on how one defines and counts them, there have been more than thirty and possibly more than forty such commissions in the past several decades. Attention by researchers, scholars, and participants tracking the rationales, operations, and outcomes of truth commissions escalated sharply in response to South Africa's innovative, controversial, and globally visible Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the mid-1990s. The scholarly attention to truth commissions has ranged from endorsement to scepticism. As early as 2001, in the introduction to the first edition of her landmark study of truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner says, ‘Unfortunately, many comfortable assumptions have been restated over and over again in untested assertions by otherwise astute and careful writers, thinkers, and political leaders.’ High expectations and incautious generalisations, however, are increasingly being submitted to more careful scrutiny and methodologically rigorous attempts at empirical confirmation.
Analysis of the roles, values, or effects of truth commissions is dauntingly complex. Claims about the aims of truth commissions encompass moral, civic, political, social, psychological, epistemological, and historical objectives. The varied aims of truth commissions can also focus on different levels and actors: the victims of political repression and violence, individual perpetrators, and the institutions and institutional cultures of a society that are implicated in abuses, as well as prevalent behaviours and self-understandings of social groups or society as a whole. Truth commissions have been said to do or aim at many things: to establish a clear and authoritative record of a period of abuses, including their causes, patterns, and circumstances; to restore the dignity and address the suffering of victims and their families; to prevent like abuses from recurring in the future; to create public accountability of individual perpetrators and societal institutions, and to examine complicity in a society at large; to make recommendations for reform, reparations, and prosecutions; to educate the public and to prevent denial and revisionism about eras of abuse; to create a new national narrative or a unifying collective memory; to promote democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights; to contribute to national reconciliation.
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9 - Nunca Más:
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1 - Post-conflict Truth Telling:
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Yee, Viktor Yelensky, Yeo Khiok-Khng, Gustav K. K. Yeung, Angela Yiu, Amos Yong, Yong Ting Jin, You Bin, Youhanna Nessim Youssef, Eliana Yunes, Robert Michael Zaller, Valarie H. Ziegler, Barbara Brown Zikmund, Joyce Ann Zimmerman, Aurora Zlotnik, Zhuo Xinping
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1 - Gender and Violence in Focus: A Background for Gender Justice in Reparations
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The ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the International Criminal Court (ICC) have put sexual violence against women in contexts of conflict squarely on the map of international criminal law in the past decade. Acts of sexual violence can now be charged as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and grave breaches of humanitarian standards. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda produced significant coverage of mass rapes that accompanied mass killings. The 1998 Akayesu judgment of the ICTR made the historically unprecedented connection between rape and genocide, and the statute and indictments of the ICTR incorporate rape as a crime against humanity. Yet a 2004 Human Rights Watch report reveals that neither the ICTR, local courts, nor the recently launched traditional gacaca hearings are dealing adequately with sexual violence. The indictment and conviction of Bosnian Serb soldiers for sexual assaults and enslavement of women in Foca at the ICTY in 2001 was seen as a historic moment for the recognition of specifically sexual violence against women in the context of armed conflict. Even so, tribunal judges lamented the difficulty of getting sexual violence against women on the agenda, and into the indictments, of the tribunal. In other recent conflicts on the African continent, widespread abduction, rape, sexual enslavement, and captivity of young women has been publicized, but it is unclear how, whether, and where this violence will be addressed.
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I - RESPONSIBLE KNOWING
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II - RESPONSIBLE PRACTICE
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Naturalized bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how health care ethics is practised. It calls for bioethicists to give up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially inquisitive, politically critical, and inclusive ethics. Wary of idealisations that bypass social realities, the naturalism in ethics that is developed in this volume is empirically nourished and acutely aware that ethical theory is the practice of particular people in particular times, places, cultures, and professional environments. These essays situate the bioethicist within the clinical or research context, take seriously the web of relationships in which all human beings are nested, and explore a number of the different kinds of power relations that inform health care encounters. Naturalized Bioethics aims to help bioethicists, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, disability studies scholars, medical researchers, and other health professionals address the ethical issues surrounding health care.
Introduction: Groningen Naturalism in Bioethics
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Talk of “naturalizing” ethics carries different messages to different ears. If naturalism is a trend or a theme in many areas of philosophy at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is not one trend or theme but several that may cohere or compete. Minimally, naturalism in ethics is committed to understanding moral judgment and moral agency in terms of natural facts about ourselves and our world. To some moral naturalists, this commitment means that moral judgments capture (or fail to capture) facts about the world that obtain independently of human opinion or feelings. Here naturalism means a metaphysical commitment to a kind of moral realism that can take forms as diverse as Aristotelian teleology and consequentialist appeals to facts about human welfare or happiness. For other naturalists, though, our capacities for moral judgment do not track truths in the world independent of us but are part of the naturally given expressive and adaptive equipment of human beings: we are a norm-hungry social species whose members need to coordinate actions and attitudes and that evolutionary pressure has “designed for social life.” These naturalists seek the explanation of our moral capacities in facts about the human beings, who, as a naturally occurring species, without recourse to supernatural or transcendent realities, bring morality into the world with them. Despite intense debate among realist and antirealist naturalists in ethics, there is widespread agreement that a scientific view of ourselves and the world is ultimately (and perhaps exclusively) authoritative, a touchstone and resource for naturalism in ethics.
1 - What Is Moral Repair?
- Margaret Urban Walker, Marquette University, Wisconsin
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- Moral Repair
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- 05 June 2012
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- 18 September 2006, pp 1-39
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A woman is at home in an isolated house by the sea. It is night, and she sits on the terrace. When a car turns in toward the house, the woman gets a gun. When she hears her husband's voice, she puts the gun away – until later. This is the opening of Ariel Dorfman's play about Paulina Salas, an imagined survivor of political violence by the former military government of her Latin American country. Under that regime she was kidnapped, secretly detained, repeatedly raped, and otherwise tortured. Paulina's husband Gerardo Escobar is a distinguished lawyer; Paulina surmises correctly that her husband has agreed to head a truth commission that will investigate those – and only those – human rights violations that ended in death; those that are, as the play describes them, “beyond repair.” Because Paulina survived her torture, her story will not be heard and her case will not be investigated.
Gerardo, who, returning home in a rainstorm, had a flat tire on the highway, invites the stranger who drove him home to stay the night. Paulina believes this “good Samaritan” is the physician who raped her and presided over her torture when she was kidnapped and held in detention by the state. Paulina believes she recognizes his voice and phrases, and, when she gets closer, his scent. While Gerardo sleeps, Paulina takes Dr. Roberto Miranda captive; she knocks him unconscious, binds him to a chair, mocks and humiliates him with sexual taunts, and proceeds to interrogate him and terrorize him with threats of death if he does not confess.