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- Convenor:
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Bhanu Pratap
(University of Lucknow)
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- Track:
- Survival and Extinction
- Location:
- Alan Turing Building G114
- Sessions:
- Friday 9 August, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
Proposed panel will discuss spectrum of violence in negative and positive sense and its effect on humanity, solidarity and peace of the society which brings affinity ultimately.
Long Abstract:
Term Violence is discussed in different ways. It is generally perceived in negative sense, which needs reconsideration in modern world. Violence has travelled a long path since the advent of man on this blue planet and has assumed aggravated proportions with civilization. Violence can be of two types one which we understand in common sense as violence by people of nation or violence by the foreign agents which destroys the harmony of a nation or of the world. In radical sense it is remedial or corrective, which may be termed as repulsive violence - more positive in nature. Repulsive violence can generate an idea about humanity and assurance for human rights protection globally.
Violence in common sense exists in EGYPT, SERIYA, YAMAN, INDO-PAK etc. Problem of all these countries may be solved with repulsive violence by state to protect common people and their rights. Philosophy of violence in the form of punishment helps the process of socialization, humanization in a child's life, in an individual, group, society etc. It was genocide and homicide which generated an idea of protection of human rights in 1948. Fear of infliction of violence forces peace between two persons, two groups, communities, states and Nations. We can't imagine an emerging world without a resonance of violence which makes people more aware, credible and sensitive for a group, culture, society and state. Anthropological jurisprudence can decipher how violence plays its role in maintaining peace, humanity, solidarity and affinity between a group, state or nation?
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Friday 9 August, 2013, -Paper short abstract:
This paper examines various ‘healing relationships’ fostered by petty offenders, criminalised factions, long-term convicts, and former Maoist guerrillas incarcerated in an urban prison in Calcutta, India. It shows how inmates across class, caste, community and ideological divides built co-dependent, caring and comforting relationships in order to maintain peace and solidarity within the volatile environments of marginalised penitentiaries. This paper contributes towards ethnographic depictions of prison cultures, and draws out the role of agency and affect in building social order, especially in restricted spaces marked by violence and conflict.
Paper long abstract:
This paper examines various 'healing relationships' fostered by petty offenders, criminalised factions, long-term convicts, and former Maoist guerrillas incarcerated in an urban prison in politically fraught 1970s Calcutta. It was a time when the city was under siege, as the government machinery used extreme force to suppress an anti-state Naxalite movement emerging in eastern India. The local police captured city-based leaders of the insurgency and subjected them to extra-legal interrogation techniques to extract information about Maoist activities. Through the oral narratives of former political prisoners, I explore the ways in which imprisoned men, women and children across class and caste divides built co-dependent relations to survive a system of excessive custodial violence designed by prison guards. In the women's correctional facility, for example, young activists regularly beaten by male police officers were washed and comforted by older women serving life sentences. This display of humanity and maternal concern from strangers and social outcasts enabled the bruised women to cope with their pain and sexual humiliation. The political prisoners in turn offered delinquents literacy classes and helped in drafting court appeals, thereby transforming quotidian relationships into temporary channels of community-building, everyday empowerment and critical intervention. These exchanges allowed inmates to envisage themselves as precursors of peace and reform, despite being constrained within a deprived culture of confinement. This paper not only contributes towards an anthropology of penal institutions, but also raises questions about the role of agency and affect in building social order, especially in restricted spaces marked by violent conflict.
Paper short abstract:
Basque and Spanish societies are currently starting to elaborate their peace process through a dynamic variety of activities that are renaming and relocating some of the events that have taken place around the so-called Basque conflict, within the framework of a reconciliation. This process constitutes a true critical event (Das, 1995) triggered towards the end of 2011 following an end to the armed activity of the ETA organization, the culmination of several decades of failed attempts to reach agreements, truces and negotiations in relation to the so-called Basque conflict. Through the efforts of diverse movements that have been shaping the construction of reconciliation, the juridical and institutional structure concerning the generation of recognised victims is being drawn up, producing laws, categorisations, invitations and events for those who bear no grudges or want no revenge (Le Franc 2010). Differential statutes of “those affected” and perhaps “citizens” will be progressively established, together with appropriate terms, controlled themselves by the transitional justices (Madlingozi 2010, Castillejo 2009, Elías 1994). Within this framework, I offer an ethnography of the processes of elaborating and institutionalising reconciliation in Basque and Spanish societies, of the concepts that sustain their peace processes at present. I analyse what the conditions are for producing the diverse spaces of elaborating the so-called peace process, examining both the social meanings and practices which set up its debate and realisation, and the ways in which it is produced and diffused from a field of knowledge and experts (institutions and agents), as well as activities aimed at civil society (courses, conferences, educational activities, mediations, products). How does a society reconcile? How were meanings for the diverse forms of violence generated? How do passive and active actors redefine themselves? How does a society re-educate itself?
Paper long abstract:
Basque and Spanish societies are currently starting to elaborate their peace process through a dynamic variety of activities that are renaming and relocating some of the events that have taken place around the so-called Basque conflict, within the framework of a reconciliation. This process constitutes a true critical event (Das, 1995) triggered towards the end of 2011 following an end to the armed activity of the ETA organization, the culmination of several decades of failed attempts to reach agreements, truces and negotiations in relation to the so-called Basque conflict.
I offer an ethnography of the processes of elaborating and institutionalising reconciliation in Basque and Spanish societies, of the concepts that sustain their peace processes at present. I analyse what the conditions are for producing the diverse spaces of elaborating the so-called peace process, examining both the social meanings and practices which set up its debate and realisation, and the ways in which it is produced and diffused from a field of knowledge and experts (institutions and agents), as well as activities aimed at civil society (courses, conferences, educational activities, mediations, products).
How does a society reconcile? How were meanings for the diverse forms of violence generated? How do passive and active actors redefine themselves? How does a society re-educate itself?
Paper short abstract:
The paper will explore the philosophical , legal and strategic justification of humanitarian intervention. The idea of violence saving human rights via intervention will also be considered. New concept of Responsibility to Protect will be discussed
Paper long abstract:
The idea of humanitarian intervention has been a controversial topic. The idea of repulsive violence can best be understood if we understand the emerging concepts of use of force in international law. The purpose of this paper is to justify the idea of humanitarian intervention from legal, philosophical , strategic angles. In this pursuit, the paper will focus on the , ideas of Kant, Rawls, Habermas , and other philosophers. The legal aspect will focus on the interpretation of the UN Charter , the concept of universal jurisdiction . The strategic utility will focus on the possibility of de escalation in a war situation and state building.
The new dimension of Responsibility to protect is seen as a practical approach to the problem and how, it has changed the concept of sovereignty .