Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 1/2023

Collective trauma

Victims of the partition riots in Delhi in August 1947.
Identity politics

The painful partition of India

How colonial India became two and eventually three different countries

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The GIZ project provides women with vocational training.
Refugees and integration

Female Empowerment in Uganda

A GIZ project gives women from refugee and host communities access to financial services and also offers skills training

Refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo pass through the Bunagana border area of Uganda in October 2022.
Refugees

Uganda’s open-door policy

As masses of people flee from strife-torn countries, international donors appreciate Uganda’s valuable service to the international community

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Activists of India's ruling BJP shout slogans during a demonstration to protest against Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in Kolkata, December 2022.
Religious communities

Legacy of colonial divide-and-rule strategies

Divisive politics of pitting Hindus against Muslims in India and Pakistan

Medienschaffende sollten sensibel mit Betroffenen umgehen.
Journalism skills

Getting trauma reporting right

Only conflict-sensitive journalists can do justice to traumatised persons

People commemorating the 1994 genocide in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2018.
Trauma

What helps traumatised societies to heal

Armed conflict disrupts society – and the media have a special role to play as peacebuilders

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Detail of the Holodomor victims memorial in Kyiv.
Our view

New trauma looms if traumatising past is not dealt with

Societies must acknowledge pain, assess causes and achieve a minimum level of reconciliation after dictatorship or war

Hannah Arendt portrait on display at a 2020 exhibition funded by Germany’s Federal Government in her honour.
Collective trauma

Why even the most atrocious evil can have a banal basis

60 years ago, Hannah Arendt’s book “Eichmann in Jerusalem” caused a controversy

Internet

Why media literacy matters in Zimbabwe

Civil-society organisation is teaching local people in Matabeleland to make effective use of digital communication

Many victims did not get a grave of their own.
Genocidal violence

Gukurahundi: ZANU’s genocidal campaign against ZAPU

Zimbabwe’s ruling party still uses aggressive identity politics to stay in power

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A victim embracing her lawyer after a TRRC hearing.
Gambia’s TRRC

How Gambia’s truth commission made an impact

Gambia’s TRRC avoided shortcomings that marked previous truth commissions in other countries

Yahya Jammeh’s rule relied on brute force.
Transition from dictatorship

Learning lessons of the past in Gambia

Why a truth commission must not only assess the facts, but also engage the public in a lasting manner

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