Commemoration as Conflict
Commemoration as Conflict
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纪念作为冲突
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10.1057/9781137314857
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2014
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McDowell S
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McDowell S
在解决冲突方面，纪念是愈合过程的一个关键因素。它承认，作为个人和社区，我们是，而且确实活出我们的历史。我们所记得的就是我们。同样重要的是，必须认识到，解决我们充满冲突的过去是一项长期、复杂和困难的任务。我们需要意识到记忆可以和不能提供什么。因此，作为个人和社会，我们面临的挑战不是需要记住，而是如何找到创造性的记忆方式，使我们能够作为一个社会向前发展。1995年8月31日，在贝尔法斯特市中心一个繁忙的忙碌路口的电子广告屏幕上显示了在北方爱尔兰冲突中被杀害的所有人的名单。一整天，大约3500个名字沿着屏幕按时间顺序不断滚动，纪念那些在近30年的种族民族主义暴力过程中丧生的人。这个展览，无论多么短暂，与当时在贝尔法斯特市中心其他地方为了吸引金融投资和旅游业而刻意营造的中立或健忘的景观形成了鲜明的对比（Switzer and McDowell 2011）。该展览最初名为“计算代价”，在准军事组织宣布停火和随后停止暴力后的前一年大部分时间里，该展览在爱尔兰巡回展出（伦纳德，1997年）。这个日子意义重大，它标志着准军事组织爱尔兰共和军（伊拉）停火一周年，也标志着和平进程的诞生。对负责展览的跨社区工作人员来说，准军事停火标志着“麻烦”（当地用来描述北方爱尔兰冲突的术语）的结束，他们的一周年纪念日似乎是一个恰当的时机，可以代表所遭受的损失和相关的记忆
In the context of conflict resolution, remembrance is a crucial element of the healing process. It recognises that, as individuals and communities, we are and indeed live out our histories. What we remember is what we are. Equally important is the need to recognise that addressing our conflicted past is a long-term, complex and difficult task. We need to be aware of what remembering can and cannot deliver. The challenge for us, therefore, as individuals and as a society is not about the need to remember, but rather how to find creative ways of remembering that enable us to go forward as a society. On 31 August 1995, a list of names of all those who had been killed in the Northern Ireland conflict was shown on an electronic advertising screen at a busy traffic junction in Belfast’s city centre. Throughout the day, around 3500 names continuously scrolled along the screen in chronological order, commemorating those killed over the course of almost 30 years of ethno-nationalist violence. The exhibit, however ephemeral, was a stark contrast to the deliberately neutral or forgetful landscape being forged elsewhere in the centre of Belfast at that point in an effort to attract financial investment and tourism (Switzer and McDowell 2011). Originally labelled Counting the Cost, the exhibit had toured Ireland for much of the previous year following the announcement of the paramilitary ceasefires and subsequent cessation of violence (Leonard 1997). The date was significant, marking the first anniversary of the paramilitary group–the Irish Republican Army (IRA) ceasefire–and the birth of the peace process. For the cross-community worker responsible for the exhibit, the paramilitary ceasefires signified the end of the Troubles (a term employed locally to describe the conflict in Northern Ireland), their first anniversary seeming an opportune moment to represent the losses incurred and memories associated