No longer a victim | Eurozine

The poster required a double take. The three action-ready figures, dressed in fatigue, may have easily promoted the film rather than the military. I have never seen military propaganda on the streets of Neutral Austria, so I took a quick reference photo. That was when only politicians over six months ago were promoting statements about European mobilization.

Today, European states are sparring more and more than military spending. Former key members of the German SPD challenged the collation government’s proposals in circulating their “manifesto” for de-escalation. Bundeswehr. Their warning against the “arms race” advocates defending the Remnant Smack, “to ease relations and cooperation with Russia.” Ostpolitik Despite the unsuccessful trade relations with the enemy of imperialism openly. ‘The way we can even imagine close cooperation with Russia at this stage is totally confused‘During a visit to Kyiv, SPD Defense Minister Boris Pistorius replied.

Demilitarized or mobilized

Given political polarization, you would think that demilitarization and mobilization have little in common. Still, reading Nera Polovic Isakovic’s attitude towards neoliberal armament alongside Angelina Kaliakina and Natalya Gumenyuk’s debate about autonomous enlistment offers an incredible parallel.

Both articles highlight that society did not recognize civilian women’s institutions during the war. Polovic Isakovic, who lived through the Bosnian War, argues that “it can be masculine (and therefore worth it) to be gun-wielding ‘protectives’, and that there is a patriarchal assumption that women and other feminization groups are (and therefore reduced) unagency-free “victims” (and therefore reduced). Kariakina and Gumenyuk report on the ongoing need for Ukrainian military forces, and observe that “recruitment communication targets potential records, but families – wives, parents often have final say.” Recognizing the importance of patriarchal political institutions reverses the gender role of the traditions that war perpetuates.

Overcome the silence

In a panel discussing ways to avoid risks when documenting witness testimony Most Documented War Symposium At LVIV last month, Euroclio Advisor Nena Moanik spoke about the contextual contradictions. Working with survivors of sexual violence from the Bosnian War, she was asked to advise on recording testimony in Bucha, Ukraine. The intention was to learn from developmental practices that are cautious about training witnesses, especially given the long-term lack of criminal cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Transferring knowledge from one context to another doesn’t really work,” Močnik said. Her statement reflects the high level of candid debate at the symposium.

According to Močnik, however, one aspect of witness communication that translates is silence. The moment when interviewees do not respond directly to questions becomes the most important moment, “war crime survivors speak very loudly as they use silence to protect themselves.”

Speaking on a panel assessing the role of documentary evidence in seeking justice, Natalya Gumenyuk also described alternatives to acknowledging trauma. The journalist is fully aware of her responsibility to the witness: “Don’t steal people’s stories without writing about them,” she warns. “The woman whose husband was tortured doesn’t think he’ll find a killer, but people want to know what happened.”

Many of the symposiums addressed ways to maximize evidence in all different ways. We hope to find justice through documents in a variety of formats, not just the Hague. Computational Projectinvolved Gumenyuk and Kariakina who filed criminal charges regarding torture in the Republic of Argentine occupied Ukraine, showing how these journalists are filing international court cases. However, Gumenyuk also emphasizes the high value of providing evidence that does not reach the court by other means. Anecdotally, she speaks of a lawyer who recognizes that their profession has its limits: “Books and movies are better.” And Gumenyuk paraphrases Salman Rushdie another Salman Rushdie Events she attended: “I’m no longer a victim. He’s a character from my book.”

I reject the illusion

But Vital is not about making premature wars dramatically dramatic. Nena Mochnik acknowledges the importance of concerns about overcoming trauma, as time passes. “It’s difficult and dangerous to talk about how to deal with recovery because you don’t know when or how the war will end,” she said.

Equally important is that Russia pretends not to be fighting war in Europe and retreat into a fictional protective bubble. As co-author of the Mobilization Study, which informs Kariakina and Gumenyuk articles, warns, “Today, Europe needs to have an honest and consistent conversation with society and society about the fact that war is already here.”