Coming to Terms with a Dark Past: How Post-Conflict Societies Deal with History

Sirkka Ahonen

Coming to Terms with a Dark Past: How Post-Conflict Societies Deal with History

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Abstract

Finland, South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina are each burdened by memories of a civil war. History wars have been fought on the arenas of public memory and history education. This book studies how the parties to these conflicts have attributed guilr to "the others" nad victimhood to "us" in each country, and compares theri respective memory politics and education strategies. The author draws on the potential of "history from below" activities and multiperspectival history lessons.

Translated title of the contribution	Hankalan menneisyyden hallinta: Miten konfliktin jälkeiset yhteiskunnat käsittelevät historiaa
Original language	English

Place of Publication	Frankfurt am Main
Publisher	Peter Lang
Number of pages	181
ISBN (Print)	978-3-631-63902-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-653-02359-6
Publication status	Published - 2012
MoE publication type	C1 Scientific book

Fields of Science

516 Educational sciences
615 History and Archaeology

1 Active

Historian käyttö ja vastaanotto - The use and reception of history
Rantala, J., Ahonen, S., Löfström, J. & van den Berg, M.
01/01/2006 → …
Project: Research project

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Coming to Terms with a Dark Past: How Post-Conflict Societies Deal with History

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Historian käyttö ja vastaanotto - The use and reception of history

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