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A superb review in TLS by Kieran Williams (12/7/18) takes a hard look at transitional justice, restitution, reparations, and lustration (e.g. vetting officials for links to the old secret police), ascertaining how successful such measures have been in healing victims, changing the outlook of people associated with old regimes, and inoculating civil society against totalitarian temptation. Williams says that Roman David's book, "Communists and Their Victims: The Quest for Justice in the Czech Republic," should be required reading for everyone interested in post-conflict and post-repression justice, and notes that Roman's methodology supplies a template the could and should be replicated elsewhere.
Roman's conclusion about these efforts in the Czech Republic are sobering: "Czech society has produced a certain degree of justice and a great deal of truth, but no reconciliation. They now can know their past very well, but they certainly have not come to terms with it."
the-tls.co.uk
Czechoslovakia was founded one hundred years ago, in October 1918. The Czech bar association recently used the centenary to highlight the role of lawyers in the republic’s birth and to launch a project telling the stories of others who showed exceptional courage in the wake of less happy years end...A superb review in TLS by Kieran Williams (12/7/18) takes a hard look at transitional justice, restitution, reparations, and lustration (e.g. vetting officials for links to the old secret police), ascertaining how successful such measures have been in healing victims, changing the outlook of people associated with old regimes, and inoculating civil society against totalitarian temptation. Williams says that Roman David's book, "Communists and Their Victims: The Quest for Justice in the Czech Republic," should be required reading for everyone interested in post-conflict and post-repression justice, and notes that Roman's methodology supplies a template the could and should be replicated elsewhere.
Roman's conclusion about these efforts in the Czech Republic are sobering: "Czech society has produced a certain degree of justice and a great deal of truth, but no reconciliation. They now can know their past very well, but they certainly have not come to terms with it."
the-tls.co.uk
Czechoslovakia was founded one hundred years ago, in October 1918. The Czech bar association recently used the centenary to highlight the role of lawyers in the republic’s birth and to launch a project telling the stories of others who showed exceptional courage in the wake of less happy years end...Science is universal and unifying. And, today, given that society faces many challenges: climate change, energy supply, food security and public health, to name a few, collaborative science is an inescapable part of the solution to all of them. At CERN, where author Fabiola Gianotti is the director-general, 17,000 scientists from all over the world work collaboratively in pursuit of common goals even though they may come from countries in conflict.
Viewpoint: The usefulness of ‘useless’ knowledge – CERN Courier
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Viewpoint Viewpoint: The usefulness of ‘useless’ knowledge adminPosted on 14 October 2016 Viewpoint No Comments CERN’s S’Cool LAB students As far back as 1939, the US educator Abraham Flexner penned a stirring paean to basic research in Harper’s Magazine under the title “The usefulness o...The United States Institute of Peace is affected by the government shut-down so, by all means, check to see what previously announced programs will be held. One
to look for is this:
Building Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies Amid a World on Fire
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 / Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
At a time of global peril, join the Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy in in Washington, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, and the U.S. Institute of Peace for a lively panel discussion on how to mobilize behind a roadmap that will put peace at the heart of the 2030 Agenda.
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The headline emphasizes the threat to these spectacular birds from the Trump Administration as it seeks to please the fossil fuel industry that wants no protections for the grouse that limit their oil and gas development plans. But, from a conflict resolution perspective, there is another, impressive story. It has to do with the collaborative, cooperative locally-led conservation plan that was developed by ranchers, state and federal land managers and others who want to preserve sage grouse habitat--their presence critical to the well-being of many, many species of fish, reptiles and insets, not to mention birds and mammals that are affected by the presence of the sage grouse. It involved sitting down at a table and talking about mutual objectives, talking through differences, as civil society should do. The concept of cooperative conservation based on common goals has been lost in the face of greater profits for the fossil-fuel industry.
Commentary: No country for the old sage grouse
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The mating dance of the sage grouse is like a ballet with percussion and wind. If you were to view it in slow motion, here's what you'd see: