Reconciliation After Atrocities

Semester
Spring 2024
Instructor(s)
Units
4
Section
1
Number
124D
CCN
21949
Times
TuTh 3:30-5pm
Location
EVAN10
Course Description

It is increasingly recognized that for societies to move on after widespread human rights and humanitarian abuses some kind of reconciliation process is necessary. What does reconciliation mean at the national vs. the personal level? What institutions and processes work best to encourage reconciliation? What role do truth commissions and trials play in this process? Are these processes best dealt with nationally or should they be led by an international body? This course will start by examining the concept of reconciliation and then look at case studies including Germany and Japan after WWII, Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge, Argentina and the Dirty War, Chile after Pinochet, South Africa and Apartheid, the Rwandan genocide, and the war in Yugoslavia. Students will complete a research project on a case study of their choice.

 

Subfield: International Relations

 

Discussion sections 103 and 104 will be delivered remotely.