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Reconciling Indonesia: grassroots agency for peace

by Bräuchler, Birgit

fromRoutledge studies in Asia's transformations

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"Indonesia has been torn by massive internal conflicts over the last decade. The absence of functioning national tools of reconciliation and the often limited success of an internationally established 'reconciliation toolkit' of truth commissions and law enforcement, justice and…

Inventing the English massacre: Amboyna in history and memory

by Games, Alison

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Acknowledgments; A Note on Dates and Spelling; Cast of Characters; Introduction; Chapter 1 From Competition to Conspiracy; Chapter 2 The Amboyna Business; Chapter 3 Inventing the Amboyna Massacre; Chapter 4 The Reckoning; Chapter 5 Domesticating Amboyna; Chapter 6 Legacies: Rein…

This study analyzes how civic engagement and collaborative governance can be used to build peace in post-conflict societies. A case study approach is used to examine the presence of civic engagement as a precursor to collaborative governance in the reconstruction of segregated a…

In this dissertation I examine policies in Indonesia, under Suharto's New Order regime, which aimed at modernizing the nation. Many scholars have analyzed such policies at the macro-level of national politics. I seek to complement this work with a micro-level study. I present th…

This work addresses the subject area of global urbanization and its linked environmental and social consequences, a relatively recent focus within the larger geographic tradition of investigating interrelationships between people and their environments. The research site is a ra…