- Title
- Insecurity, risk, identity, and violence in Kosovo
- Creator
- Tulloch, John
- Relation
- Rethinking Insecurity War and Violence : Beyond Savage Globalization p. 138-151
- Relation
- http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415432276/
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- This chapter examines the condition of violence, via a study of Kosovo at a time of renewed violence five years after NATO air forces went to war in Serbia and Kosovo. It compares various academic theories with "administrative" reports from international bodies. In many academic quarters, especially in criminological and risk theory, "administrative" reports and associated research have a bad name. This, as Wilkinson explains, is especially when "the genuine voice of suffering people is effectively silenced by the translation of their experiences into the language of science and technical expertise. Through this process, politicians and policy makers find it easier to turn away from what suffering does to a person's humanity." However, in this chapter, the notion of administrative research is given a different inflection, representing the opportunity to draw systematically on voices on the ground - from "below" so to speak. The chapter therefore moves through several phases. The first section critically examines the attempts by different theorists - notably Samuel Huntington and Benjamin Barber - to understand the nature of violence in the world today, and finds that such attempts seem to fail to grapple with the realities of Kosovo. The chapter then moves to a consideration of how such violence is analyzed, namely from the perspectives from "above" and from "below," and the ramifications of analysis that is begun from each of these perspectives. The final stage of this chapter turns to the reports produced through non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society actors, notably the International Crisis Group, as a way of bringing together academic and on-the-ground "administrative" research in examining the Kosovo riots of March 2004.
- Subject
- Kosovo; war; ethnic divisions; violence
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053450
- Identifier
- uon:15592
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780415432276
- Language
- eng
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