Monday 12th August - Friday 16th August 2002
Prague, Czech Republic

Cultures of Violence  

Abdullah Ghassan Terror is our Enemy
Julia Antonova Domestic Violence Against Women in the Post-communist Russia:
Correlation between the Cultural Norms and Legal Provisions
Yulia Antonyan The “Victim” as a Cultural Phenomenon
Martha Apostolidou The Role of Health Education in the Prevention of Violence in the Family
Victor Arrocha The Deconstruction of Machismo Through Education
Gwyneth Bodger The Holocaust and Hiroshima: Representations of the Technologies of Murder
Alan Bougere Physical Aggression in the Context of Dating Relationships
Miri Cohen Identification of Elderly People at High Risk for Abuse or Neglect by their Caregivers: Preliminary Results
Eep Fatah The Military, Violence, and Democratic Transition: Post-Soeharto Indonesia
Peter Day Ploughshares into Swords.
Ruth Firer Preventive Remedy: Tolerance Education
Rob Fisher Loving the Human: The Paradox of Violence
Mike Fosdal Violence into Politics
Eran Fraenkel Media, Children, and the Culture of Violence: Intended-Outcome Television as a Conflict Transformation Tool in Macedonia
Jerome Gellman Educating Away from Violence: Referential Directness vs. Obliqueness
Randall Hall Justifying Violence: Ninety Years of Explanations for a 1912 Court-room Massacre in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains
Asher Idan Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalization: Three Modes of Technologies of Violence
Olawale Ismail Contracting Violence: Child Soldiers and the African Crises
Richard Jackson The Social Construction of Internal War: Towards a Framework of Understanding
Urszula Jarecka Violence and the life styles in contemporary culture
Sushma Joshi The Violent Maobadi: War and Peace in the Himalayas
Catherine Leung An Analysis of Gang Violence - a Subcultural Perspective
Ksenia Limanskaia Child Prostitution in St Petersburg
Christopher Macallister The (re)legitimisation of State Violence in Britain and the USA:
The Illusion of Rorty’s Utopia and Why Foucault was Right.
Mike McFarland The Role of Religion in Violent Conflict
John Moukas High politics vs. violence: The Kosovo compromise – Russian foreign policy and the 1999 NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia
Bill Munro The Concept of 'Dangerousness' and Sex Offenders
Katia Nielsen The Legacy of Violence - Testimonies of Torture Survivors as Indicators of the Struggle to come to Terms with Oppression in Chile
Ebenezer Obadare White-Collar Fundamentalism: Youth, Religious Violence and Uncivil Society in Nigeria
Przemyslaw Piotrowski Soccer Hooliganism in Poland. Extent, Dynamism and Psychosocial Conditions
Nomi Rotbard Sexual Assault
Alison Rowley Danger From the Sky: The Reactions of Civilians to World War II Bombing in the European Theatre
Sabah Sali The Dogma of State Violence: Saddam-Style
Brian Sandberg The Infection of Heresy: Religious Conquest and Confessional Violence in Early Modern France.
Anna Sklepova Sexual Violence
Sabelo Sibanda Ethnicity, Nationalism and Sub-nationalism; Racism and Violence
Eva-Maria Stolberg Violence as a Cultural Code in Soviet History, 1917-1938
Jennifer Suchland Pubic Morality and the Impossibility of a Violent Act
Elissa Teeple Deconstructing Cultures of Violence to Build Cultures of Peace: Challenges and Opportunities
Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert ‘Killing Fields’: Gender, Caste and Violence in North India
Mpho Tshesane South African Criminologists Views on Selected Aspects of the Abuse of Women
Matias Waldemar Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
Kathleen Young The Translation of Violence: Anthropologist as Madwoman