In “How Words Could End a War”, Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges address one strategy that may lead to peace in the Middle East: symbolic concessions could open up a channel for a productive dialogue about what a stable equilibrium between Palestine and Israel might look like. The words–of an apology, of recognition–are not enough [...]
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words, words, words
Posted in commentary, tagged apology, forgiveness, Israel, war on January 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Two follow-up articles on Gaza
Posted in course business, tagged apology, forgiveness, Gaza, Israel, war on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the New York Times this Sunday there were two articles of interest with regard to our last writing assignment. Ethan Bronner, author of the article on Israeli views on the Gaza conflict that we read and responded to in our first assignment, wrote the essay “The Bullets in My In-Box.” He described the experience [...]
Assignments for Thursday, Jan. 15th
Posted in reading assignments, writing assignments, tagged Gaza, Israel, lex talionis, Murphy, war on January 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Thursday, we will discuss the rest of the readings assigned for Tuesday that we didn’t get to. In addition, please read chapter two of Jeffrie Murphy’s “Two Cheers for Vindictiveness,” in Getting Even (Oxford, OUP: 2003), 17-26. I have emailed this to you. Your response paper (c. 250 words, no more than 1 page), [...]
Trials for war criminals in the news
Posted in commentary, course business, tagged Nazis, war, war crimes on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I posted a couple weeks ago about a couple articles on the Gaza conflict and suggested they might be interesting topics for a blog posting. I read again a couple articles in the New York Times this week that might make for similarly good blogging topics. In last Thursday’s New York Times there was an [...]
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