Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 8/2020

Traumatised nations

Global Governance

Self-perpetuating cycles of violence

Joint UN and World Bank study on international cooperation in conflict prevention

Conflict transformation

Collective trauma

Violent conflicts can lead to the traumatisation of entire communities

Collective memories

Legacy of wounds

Peace-work contributes to a healing process of collective trauma in Lebanon

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Land ownership

How the first redistribution attempt failed

The policy proposed by Namibia’s first National Land Reform Conference in the early 1990s never took off

Land restitution

Righting a wrong

To make amends for colonial-era crimes, Germany should fund Namibian land restitution

Idi Amin photo exhibition

Facets of a despot

A photo exhibition marks a first tentative attempt by Ugandans to come to terms with the past under Idi Amin

Recurring trauma

Feelings of aggravation

The history of anti-Muslim violence in India

International Criminal Court

Revisiting the peace versus justice debate

Demands for criminal accountability can be an obstacle to peace

Our view

Belonging together

Nations are nothing natural, but human-made “imagined communities”

Social psychology

Collective trauma

Every crisis leaves deep scars in the memory of the affected society

Sexual violence

Justice for the victims

Nepal must urgently reform its sexual violence laws