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... the burden of war memories across a community. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 theater ancient Greece tragedy Sophocles trauma drama ANTIKE BAUKUNST ANTIKE BAUKUNST Picture thousands of citizen soldiers seated in an amphitheater on the south slope of the Acropolis...

...Viet Thanh Nguyen World Policy Journal speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, who criticizes an “industry of memory” that creates and bolsters a single version of history. Hollywood, the Vietnamese-American author says, is a “very powerful propaganda ministry” that seduces...

... politicians have been manipulating the country's collective memory of this era for their own gain. For the survivors of the regime's torture apparatus, the new nostalgia for repression can be traumatizing. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Brazil military dictatorship torture Brazilian...

... of its 94 recommendations. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Canada truth and reconciliation memory cultural genocide This project was supported by multiple grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. ...

... for the Communist Party as the country’s economy slows. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 China Tiananmen Square freedom of speech history nationalism memory LAW OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA LAW OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Miao Deshun is a living ghost, a revenant...

... it. The belief in historical inevitability is a brance where individual memories as well dangerous mistake, and it leads to passivity. as publicly celebrated collective memories In earlier times, the study of history was are given an increasingly important place. considered a cornerstone of a liberal...

.... Expanding Our Moral Universe D onald H. Shriver, Jr . A patriot must always be ready to defend capital: the Vietnam Memorial. There, in his country against its government. antithesis to the Medals of Honor granted — Edward Abbey1 members of the Seventh...

... that a nation’s identity is founded largely on its collective memory, then it would not be unreasonable to refer to El Salvador’s identity as a tragic one. But reality is stubborn. Nations refuse to disappear and the human conglomerates that are from them or live in them insist on clinging to these bonds...

... The silence has also been broken in a poem, “Memory II,” by George Seferis, winner of of winner Seferis, George by II,” “Memory poem, a in broken been also has silence The Why the absence? For years, American...

... of force may have had for Washington in forcing the pace of events was offset by America finding itself more isolated on a major global initiative than at any time in memory. 7. Never Allow a Weak Ally to Make Decisions for You. Strong nations are especially sus­ ceptible to this blunder...

.... Most older Egyptians have strong memories of 1967, when Israel launched a surprise attack on Egyptian airfields, catching Nasser’s pilots off guard. Within six days, Israel had destroyed most of the Egyptian air force, occupied the Sinai Peninsula, and seized east Jerusalem and the West Bank from...

..., we speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, who criticizes the “industry of memory” that creates and bolsters a single version of history. Hollywood, the Vietnamese-American author says, is a “very powerful propaganda ministry” that seduces audiences to identify with the American...

... in Politics. Bosnia in Fear and Hope D onald W . Shriver, Jr. In the depth of their hearts, in that true and in his history of the Bosnian war. “You ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, could find, on virtually the same block, a there remained the memory of what...

... that the power really was theirs,” he says. “They have social inclusion, and tacitly, that reduces inequality.” Public memory activities would also be carried out. In many municipalities of Eastern Antioquia, residents built memorials to those who were killed. In some cases, the memorial may be no more than...

... be known to George W. Bush, since at Yale he studied Ger­ many’s past in a course taught by an astute historian, Henry Ashby Turner. Bismarck’s memory is preserved in a museum I sought out at his residence in Fried- richsruh, in the environs of Hamburg. Here one is reminded that a century ago all...

..., Burundians have become “doublers,” unconsciously reproducing destructive splits. After the Arusha Accords in 1993, we believed that we had resolved the issue of violence between Hutus and Tutsis. But just saying “calm down” in one’s daily life isn’t enough; the transmission of memories within families...

... they will receive half the pension benefits that Italy’s 60-somethings are getting or are poised to get. For those who lived through Italy’s troubled 1970s there remain vivid memories of the shape of extra-parliamentary movements, and the potential threats they pose to institutions. Indeed, any veteran...

... of obliteration and for the taboo’s persistence— on occasion ar­ dismemberment by European powers. This ticulated by Turkish political leaders— is fear of annihilation runs deep, evoking the fear that acknowledgment of the geno­ memories that Turks prefer to forget. Speak­ cide would prompt Armenian...

... government has never apologized for its conduct in Asia and the Pacific. It is more the sincerity of the official expressions of remorse that is routinely questioned by people in South Korea and China, whose governments tend to politicize war memory in the mirror image of Japan’s efforts...

... for a memorial mass in honor of his mother-in-law. The mass was held in his family's native village in northern Cyprus. They had driven there from their homes in the south, showing their identity cards at one of the crossing-points on the cease-fire line in order to get a rubber-stamped “visa” on a sheet...