... threat of violence, schools in Lebanon did not become targets for popular aggression as they did in Syria. Struggles over education were confined to the political sphere where the debates were sometimes intense. The actual practice of politics was dominated by intra-sectarian conflict in which Christians...

... of violence, or killing people, is also examined. The second part of the lecture has a brief word about the creation of the Inquisition. It reviews two important elements that resulted from the Inquisition and what happened to the Inquisition once it had been invented. The lecture ends by examining certain...

.... The chapter also highlights that despite the violence used by these powerful groups, they do not always succeed in their efforts to reverse human rights. Agua Zarca Cáceres Berta Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras COPINH Lenca people right against rights braided action framework...

..., and uniforms, insignia, posters and songs ensured that groups were ‘seen’ in enemy territory. These invasions frequently led to violence as activists fought off the intruder. A variety of weapons were used, from knuckledusters and knives to clubs and revolvers. Fighting in the street was interpreted according...

... read as an instance of medievalism, perpetuating as well as re-evaluating the widespread association of the Middle Ages with violence. An awareness of this intertext allows a nuanced interpretation of Inglourious Basterds’ stance on the power as well as manipulability of visual signs...

...This lecture discusses the close connection among war and culture, education and destruction, politics and poetry, and spirit and violence. It studies one aspect of this connection, which is the traditional overestimation of culture at the expense of politics that has long shaped German history...

...Chapter 10 discusses the part played in the martyrdom narrative of torture, redirecting attention from its sexual component and the interplay between violence and desire to examination of the variety of the torture employed in the legend and the way it changes through time and between languages...

... the central claim of the book that feminist domestic violence activism has been one of the most successful campaigns of the women's movement in Germany, but one that has come at a price. It further asserts the importance of including East Germany in the history and historiography of feminism in Germany...

... This chapter examines how the courts, the criminal justice system, and the media addressed domestic violence in East Berlin. It further asks what these official responses meant for women living with an abusive husband in the German Democratic Republic. Focused on the era of late socialism under...

... This chapter examines feminist activism across Berlin from 1989 to 2002. It specifically compares the experiences of abortion rights activists with those working to address domestic violence. Abortion was an important flashpoint for women's rights during reunification as East German women fought...

... Virgili F Voisin V compromises confessions Eichmann A Kastner trials collaboration informers transitional justice violence human rights Judas Iscariot is the iconic collaborator. The Gospels tell a simple story about his motivations for betraying Jesus. In the Gospel of Matthew...

... and their handlers from the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch saved lives and ‘defeated’ Republican groups, leaving them no alternative but peace negotiations, ultimately contributing to the abatement of violence. The authors argue that the narrative of ‘heroification’ of informers overlooks the negative...

... disposable and certain bodies profoundly injurable in war. checkpoints coalition checkpoints collateral damage dependency destruction given over harms hostile intent perception of individualism injurability morality ontology social life social relations violence vulnerability vulnerable...

... The present text was elaborated from the results of the research project ‘State Violence in Brazil: A Study of Crimes of May 2006 in the Perspective of Transitional Justice and Forensic Anthropology’. The research was conducted as part of an institutional collaboration project...

... and statement about Santiago Maldonado letters public and statement about Santiago Maldonado repression democracies Disappearance Justice Maldonado Memory State violence Truth Proceedings of the British Academy, 237 , 163–167, © The British Academy 2021. santiago maldonado...

...Feminist Transformations is a history of women's activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002. Situating domestic violence activism within a broader history of feminism in post-war Germany, this book shows how feminists in West and then East Berlin...

...This chapter examines the emergence of sectarianism in Iraq. Sectarian identities have long persisted in Iraq. And although they tend to cause violence, sectarian violence did not persist as a social constant; rather, outbreaks of sectarian violence only happened on specific occasions. For some...

...This chapter presents the (re-)analysis of Neolithic cranial remains from southern Scandinavia and Britain and Ireland, offering a large, population-based inter-regional study of violence and challenging the perception that this was a ‘peaceful’ period. The authors discuss the state and location...

... of the orator. Good speakers were said to display the masculine qualities of calmness and self-control, able to dominate the enemy and the audience. Poor speakers lacked such qualities; they were condemned for giving in to their feminine passions and inciting the mob to violence. CGT Confédération Générale du...