Revista de Estudios sobre Genocidio

Editorial

Los Editores — 2024-12-01

Editorial volumen 19

Los estudios sobre perpetradores. Más problemas que promesas

Christian Gudehus — 2024-12-01

Perpetrator research is booming in and beyond genocide studies. Journals, network(s), and conferences deal with and sell the topic as a new, urgently needed development. In fact, the systematic study of those who perpetrate violence in the context of collective violence has a long tradition. Furthermore, there are three conceptual problems with the approach. First, the problem of definition: Perpetrators can only be identified because of their actions. Second, the problem of limitations: Areas of knowledge would have to be excluded because they do not immediately concern perpetrators, yet they are of fundamental importance to understanding the scrutinized processes of collective violence. Taken together, one confronts a third problem, which is one of explanation: Focusing on agents called perpetrators does not suffice to understand the process of collective violence.

Prácticas de violencia

Christian Gudehus — 2024-12-01

This paper explores the potential of a praxeological approach to the study of collective violence. Consequently, violence is neither to be understood as a function of specific historical constellations or as a result of individual deformation nor as a consequence of social dynamics. Instead, it is of interest to compare cultures along the dimensions of time and space concerned with the generation, existence, appropriation, and perhaps the opting out from—or of—practices.

Cuando el personal sanitario causa daño

Verena Muckermann — 2024-12-01

This article bases its findings on an extensive praxeological reconstruction of medical involvement in torture in Syria since 2011. The research was conducted from 2021–2023 by examining reports of human rights organizations and activists, the accounts of survivors as well as trial reports and academic literature. After outlining an inexhaustive list of prevalent patterns of medical involvement in torture compiled for the overall reconstruction of this practice, three prevalent patterns will be portrayed more closely.

These patterns suggest benefits and research-stimulating open questions resulting from exploratively employing harm as an analytical concept in violence research: (1.) Medical negligence and arbitrary treatment, (2.) anamnesis and the exploitation of medical history, and (3.) the broader pattern of transporting people to and detaining them in military hospitals.

This article supposes that employing harm as an analytical concept in violence research can free us from too narrow (legal) categories, allows us to look beyond over-simplified dichotomies of perpetrators and victims, enables us to discuss epistemic impacts of the practice, and further allows us to revisit definitions like the one of medical involvement in torture.

GenArm Genocidio Armenio

Jorge Sebastián Sepúlveda — 2024-12-01

The present aims to constitute a review of the prior’s conditions to the Genocide of 1915, starting with the theocratic character that governed the Ottoman Empire, the period of Tanzimat Reforms, the arrival of the Young Turks to power and the emergence of Turkish nationalism, and the lack of effective action by the powers of the time to protect the Christian nationalities living under the Turkish-Ottoman yoke, much less the population of Western Armenia. The analysis of these conditions, which led to the Genocide of 1915, gives us an account of the existing problems and allows us to reconstruct its constituent elements and the motivations that led to the decision of the Final Solution for the Armenian Question.

Truth trials in Argentina:

Diogo Justino — 2024-12-01

Truth trials are criminal prosecutions opened in Argentina that aim to reveal the facts of a specific case, without culminating in the imposition of a punishment. The first cases referred to crimes committed by agents of the Military Dictatorship (1976-1983). Subsequently, trials were opened in the case known as the Armenian Genocide and as well in the case of the Napalpí massacre, a slaughter of indigenous people in Argentina (Chaco region). Another interesting and paradigmatic case is the "Funes" precedent, in which police officers concealed a crime, causing the statute of limitations to expire, but the Judiciary authorized the opening of an investigation and trial to learn the truth of the facts. Similarly, in recent years, this type of proceedings have been authorized for cases of gender-based violence that have prescribed. It is, therefore, an instrument currently used as a means of seeking the truth and can become an instrument for the preservation of memory. The purpose of this paper is to explain and contextualize the truth trials that have taken place in Argentina; to present their cases and the differences between them; to point out the advantageous aspects and possible criticisms and limits to this type of process.

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Catalina Seinhart — 2024-12-01

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