Please note that there are no lecture notes for the final portion of the course as class sessions focused on discussion and debate.
Table having Student Notes
| Part 1: Theories of Violence and the Problem of Rationality |
| 1 |
Section 1: Introduction to the Debate (PDF) |
| 2-3 |
Section 2: Theoretical Foundations: Crowds, Ritual or Demonic Males? (PDF) |
| 4-5 |
Section 3: Political Violence, the State, and Theoretical Controversies (PDF) |
| Part 2: Conceptions of Rights, Rationality and Relativism |
| 6-7 |
Section 4: Rights Talk in Western Culture: Whose Rights, Whose Rationality? (PDF) |
| 8-9 |
Section 5: Debating Universalism versus Cultural Relativism: How Is the Notion of Culture Discussed? |
| 10-11 |
Section 6: The Spectacle of Torture: Violence, State Security, and the Perpetrator (PDF 1) (PDF 2) |
Part 3: Dilemmas of Postmodern Violence: State-Sponsored, Collective, or Interpersonal?
|
| 12-13 |
Section 7: Genocide-The Inconceivable? (PDF) |
| 14-15 |
Section 8: The Problem of Sex and Gender Violence in Political Crises: "Ethnic Cleansing" or Interpersonal Crime? (PDF 1) (PDF 2) |
| Part 4: From Violence and Trauma to Justice |
| 16-17 |
Section 9: Argentina's Dirty War (PDF 1) (PDF 2) |
| 18-20 |
Section 10: Rwanda: Genocide Revisited (PDF) |
Part 5: The Politics of Memory, Victimization, and Reparations in "Transitional" Societies
|
| 21-24 |
Section 11: South Africa: Truth Commissions, Trials, Trauma, and Transitions to Democracy |
| 25 |
Section 12: Haiti: Human Rights, Justice, and Humanitarian Assistance |
| Conclusions and Concerns |
