Johanna Herman – författare

In recent decades there has been increasing attention to mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other gross human rights violations. At the same time, there has been a vast increase in the number of academics and researchers seeking to analyze the causes of, and offer practical responses to, these atrocities. Yet there remains insufficient discussion of the practical and ethical challenges surrounding research into serious abuses and dealing with vulnerable populations. The aim of this edited volume is to guide researchers in identifying and addressing challenges in conducting qualitative research in difficult circumstances, such as conducting research in autocratic or uncooperative regimes, with governmental or non-governmental officials, and perhaps most importantly, with reluctant respondents such as victims of genocide or (on the other side of the coin) war criminals. The volume proceeds in five substantive sections, each addressing a different challenge of conducting field research in conflict-affected or repressive situations: Ethics Access Veracity Security Identity, objectivity, behaviour. This important text will be vital reading for students, scholars and researchers in the areas of research methods, international relations, anthropology and human rights. It will also be of keen interest to policy practioners and NGOs, and especially relevant for those working in the regions of Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

In recent decades there has been increasing attention to mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other gross human rights violations. At the same time, there has been a vast increase in the number of academics and researchers seeking to analyze the causes of, and offer practical responses to, these atrocities. Yet there remains insufficient discussion of the practical and ethical challenges surrounding research into serious abuses and dealing with vulnerable populations. The aim of this edited volume is to guide researchers in identifying and addressing challenges in conducting qualitative research in difficult circumstances, such as conducting research in autocratic or uncooperative regimes, with governmental or non-governmental officials, and perhaps most importantly, with reluctant respondents such as victims of genocide or (on the other side of the coin) war criminals. The volume proceeds in five substantive sections, each addressing a different challenge of conducting field research in conflict-affected or repressive situations: Ethics Access Veracity Security Identity, objectivity, behaviour. This important text will be vital reading for students, scholars and researchers in the areas of research methods, international relations, anthropology and human rights. It will also be of keen interest to policy practioners and NGOs, and especially relevant for those working in the regions of Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

The promotion of the rule of law has become an increasingly important element of peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, particularly in Africa, where there have been numerous internal armed conflicts and missions over the last decade. This book explores the expanding international efforts to promote rule of law in countries emerging from violent conflict. With a focus on Africa, the authors critically examines the impact of these activities in relation to liberal peacebuilding, rule of law institutions, and the range of non-state providers of justice and security. They also assess the virtues and limitations of rule of law reform efforts, and policy alternatives. It brings together expert scholars and practioners from politics, law, anthropology and conflict studies, and features detailed case studies on Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.Making an important contribution to debates about peacebuilding, and assisting specific efforts in reforming the rule of law after conflict, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, law, African politics, post-conflict reconstruction, peace and conflict studies, as well as practitioners in the UN, development agencies and NGOs.

This book seeks to refine our understanding of transitional justice and peacebuilding, and long-term security and reintegration challenges after violent conflicts. As recent events following political change during the so-called 'Arab Spring' demonstrate, demands for accountability often follow or attend conflict and political transition. While traditionally much literature and many practitioners highlighted tensions between peacebuilding and justice, recent research and practice demonstrates a turn away from the supposed 'peace vs justice' dilemma. This volume examines the complex relationship between peacebuilding and transitional justice through the lenses of the increased emphasis on victim-centred approaches to justice and the widespread practices of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of excombatants. While recent volumes have sought to address either DDR or victim-centred approaches to justice, none has sought to make connections between the two, much less to place them in the larger context of the increasing linkages between transitional justice and peacebuilding.This book will be of great interest to students of transitional justice, peacebuilding, human rights, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR.

This book seeks to refine our understanding of transitional justice and peacebuilding, and long-term security and reintegration challenges after violent conflicts. As recent events following political change during the so-called 'Arab Spring' demonstrate, demands for accountability often follow or attend conflict and political transition. While, traditionally, much literature and many practitioners highlighted tensions between peacebuilding and justice, recent research and practice demonstrates a turn away from the supposed 'peace vs justice' dilemma. This volume examines the complex, often contradictory but sometimes complementary relationship between peacebuilding and transitional justice through the lenses of the increased emphasis on victim-centred approaches to justice and the widespread practices of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of excombatants. While recent volumes have sought to address either DDR or victim-centred approaches to justice, none has sought to make connections between the two, much less to place them in the larger context of the increasing linkages between transitional justice and peacebuilding .This book will be of much interest to students of transitional justice, peacebuilding, human rights, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR.

Being a seventies kidLet’s be honest, being a seventies kid was the best.Riding around all day on your bike, eating and drinking tens of thousands of calories before anyone knew what a calorie was. Health and safety just a glint in a really boring person’s eye. Crashpads?! Helmets?! Seatbelts?! Rub some dirt on it.Prawn cocktail, Angel Delight, Arctic Roll. All washed down with gallons of delicious fruity creamy Cresta. You want something fizzy instead? We make our own drinks fizzy now. Deal with it.Glam rock, Punk and Disco?! Enough said. The air heady with the commingling scent of Brut and Anais Anais. Though admittedly long term it wasn’t a wholly positive thing, smoking was cool. Colour TV, video recorders and answering machines. Welcome to the future.Here, in quiz book form, is a celebration of those glorious years. Taking in more than 500 questions across Film, TV, Music, Arts & Culture, Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Games and toys, Celebrities, Sport, Fashion and design, Technology, Crazes & Fads, Idioms and Sayings, Books and Magazines and with one Super Duper Impossibly Hard question per round, there’s something for everyone.And the best thing is, you don’t have to have that haircut this time around.

Let’s be honest, being an eighties kid was the best. You could play outside because paedophiles hadn’t been formally invented yet. Computers couldn’t talk to each other: they had to live, silent but next to each other, in places called arcades.Findus Crispy Pancakes, Viennetta, or perhaps signor would prefer some of Gino Ginelli’s Toffee Fooogee?Playing games on Ceefax. Bagpuss, Fingermouse, Button Moon. Beat that. Looking at the world though your View-Master. Being stressed about acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer (which are both okay now?). Five hours of cartoons on a Saturday morning, most of which were reverse-engineered adverts for plastic toys. 0181 811 8181!New Wave, post-punk. Madonna! Taping the radio. The air heady with the co-mingling scent of Cool Water and Obsession. Though admittedly it wasn’t a wholly positive thing long-term, smoking was still cool.Here, in quiz book form, is a celebration of those glorious years. There are more than 500 questions across Film, TV, Music, Arts & Culture, Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Games and Toys, Celebrities, Sport, Fashion and Design, Technology, Crazes & Fads, Idioms and Sayings, and Books and Magazines. And with one Super Duper Impossibly Hard question per round, there’s something for everyone.And the best thing is, you don’t have to have that haircut this time around.

Let’s be honest, being a nineties kid was the best. The internet was dial-up, and you had to decide whether you wanted to have a phone or the internet because you couldn’t have both. Blue Peter had to explain what an email address was for what felt like an entire decade. Physical media was still a thing. Terrestrial TV. Recording films off the TV and keeping them, which meant you got to watch old Argos adverts too. The closest thing to social media was doing impressions of Chandler Bing in the playground. Could we be any more excited?Pop-Tarts, Capri-Sun, cheese-finally-available-as-string. Electronic pets. Pagers and stackable pencils. Is sir more of a French crop or a curtains man? Hardly anyone had a mobile phone yet, but some people’s dads had a car phone. You’d say a time to meet people and they had to be there. You’d talk to people on an actual landline, winding the cord around your fingers. The air was heavy with the scent of Lynx Africa and Fuzzy Peach body spray.Here, in quiz book form, is a celebration of those glorious years. And the best thing is, you don’t have to have that haircut this time around.

War, Conflict and Human Rights is an innovative inter-disciplinary textbook, combining aspects of law, politics and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict. This third edition has been fully revised and updated, and contains a completely new chapter on business, conflict and human rights. Making use of both theoretical and practical approaches, the authors: examine the tensions and complementarities between protection of human rights and resolution of conflict – the competing political demands and the challenges posed by internal armed conflict and the increasing role of nonstate actors, including corporations, in armed conflicts; explore the scope and effects of human rights violations in contemporary armed conflicts, such as in Sierra Leone, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the former Yugoslavia; assess the legal and institutional accountability mechanisms developed in the wake of armed conflict to punish violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law such as the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, hybrid or internationalized tribunals and the International Criminal Court; discuss continuing and emergent global trends and challenges in the fields of human rights and conflict analysis. This volume will be essential reading for students of war and conflict studies, human rights and international humanitarian law, and highly recommended for students of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, international security, transitional justice and international relations generally.

War, Conflict and Human Rights is an innovative inter-disciplinary textbook, combining aspects of law, politics and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict. This third edition has been fully revised and updated, and contains a completely new chapter on business, conflict and human rights. Making use of both theoretical and practical approaches, the authors: examine the tensions and complementarities between protection of human rights and resolution of conflict – the competing political demands and the challenges posed by internal armed conflict and the increasing role of nonstate actors, including corporations, in armed conflicts; explore the scope and effects of human rights violations in contemporary armed conflicts, such as in Sierra Leone, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the former Yugoslavia; assess the legal and institutional accountability mechanisms developed in the wake of armed conflict to punish violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law such as the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, hybrid or internationalized tribunals and the International Criminal Court; discuss continuing and emergent global trends and challenges in the fields of human rights and conflict analysis. This volume will be essential reading for students of war and conflict studies, human rights and international humanitarian law, and highly recommended for students of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, international security, transitional justice and international relations generally.