SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nationstates, Ethics & International Affairs, Moloko
30 Oct 2018
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Civil war, dictatorship, ethnic cleansing dealing with legacies of violence through reconciliation and/or justice. Living together/compromise in order to re/establish new nation-states approaches to managing atrocity rights v. needs violence stories - cobb 1997 wound, weapon and community. Cobb, sara 1997 the domestication of violence in mediation", law and society review, 31(3), 397-440. (the violence story) is a moral context which functions to create the norms and standards that make up community. In this way the telling of a violence story repairs the moral code by establishing persons in relation to each other within the context of a shared code for distinguishing right from wrong, within the normative order. Violence stories remake the world, not through their accuracy but through the connections they create between wounds, weapons and community" (cobb 407) Politics of victims victims of politically inflicted suffering what to do with suffering? political choice harness suffering as politics of grievance suppress suffering as politics of resentment.
