Open AccessJournal Article
Reparation - political and psychological considerations
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, the author explains why it was so difficult to be courageous in solitary confinement: why did I want to co-operate so much with the guards? Why was it so hard to resist?Abstract:
What justifies my being here tonight is not my political biography, but an episode in my life that began after a long spell in solitary confinement. It was 1963-64, and I came out of detention with puzzles that I had not taken in with me.
Why was it so difficult to be courageous? Why did I want to co-operate so much with the guards? Why was it so hard to resist? It was a great problem for me because I had always thought that if you were clear about what you stood for and if you knew what you wanted, then you just behaved accordingly and that was that. But as it happened, that was just not that. There was another thing baffling me. It was behaving in a contradictory way and was fighting with the familiar self-directed part of me.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Forgiveness and Transitional Justice in the Czech Republic
Roman David,Susanne Y. P. Choi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined major theoretical assumptions about forgiveness by victims of human rights abuses in the context of transitional justice in the Czech Republic and concluded that individual, social and political empowerment of victims, decreasing the superior position of perpetrators, especially through their punishment, and a repentant gesture of perpetrators towards victims, especially by apologizing directly promote forgiveness.
Journal ArticleDOI
Where in the World do Children Learn 'Bloody Revenge'?: Cults of terror and counter-terror and their implications for child socialisation
TL;DR: In this paper, the emergence and maintenance of conflict-based solidarities worldwide and their implications for child and youth socialisation for violence and aggression are discussed. But the authors focus on the role that culture and psychology play in learning bloody revenge and the ways in which the socialisation context created by terror makes making up so hard.
Book ChapterDOI
Globalization, education and the trouble with peace
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the existing social science and education literature regarding globalization and peace from approximately 1960 to the present is presented, based upon a grounded analysis (Glaser & Strauss, 1967).