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| | AMNESTY AFTER ATROCITY?: |
| (Embedded | Healing Nations after Genocide and War Crimes |
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| pic16060.jpg | In Amnesty after Atrocity? Veteran journalist |
| ) | Helena Cobban examines the effectiveness of |
| | different ways of dealing with the aftermath of |
| | genocide and violence committed during deep |
| | intergroup conflicts. She traveled to Rwanda, |
| | Mozambique, and South Africa to assess the |
| | various ways those nations tried to come to grips |
| | with their violent past: from war crimes trials |
| | to truth commissions to outright amnesties for |
| | perpetrators. She discovered that in terms of |
| | both moving these societies forward and |
| | satisfying the needs of survivors, war crimes |
| | trials are not the most effective path. This |
| | work provides strategic historical context and |
| | includes interviews with a cross-section of the |
| | panoply of humanity that makes up any |
| | post-atrocity society: community leaders, |
| | victims, policymakers, teachers, rights |
| | activists, and even some former abusers. These |
| | first-person accounts create a rich, readable |
| | text, and Cobban?s overall conclusions will |
| | surprise many readers in the West. |
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Wednesday, September 26
12:00 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Coffee and cookies will be served
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CHAIR
Katherine Marshall
Senior Advisor, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Marshall has worked for over three decades on international
development, with a focus on issues facing the world?s poorest
countries. She is a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at
Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
From 2000-2006 her mandate covered ethics, values, and faith in
development work, as counselor to the World Bank?s President. Ms.
Marshall served earlier as Country Director in the World Bank?s
Africa region, first for the Sahel region, then Southern Africa.
She led the Bank's work on social policy and governance during the
East Asia crisis years. She also worked extensively on Eastern
Africa and Latin America.
PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Helena Cobban
Ms. Cobban is a veteran writer, researcher, and program organizer on
global affairs. She is a Contributing Editor of Boston Review,
where her recent articles have included lengthy essays on Lebanese
and Palestinian affairs, and on post-genocide justice issues in
Rwanda. She has an affiliation as 'Friend in Washington' with the
Washington, DC-based Friends Committee on National Legislation.
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