This paper draws from Silencios – a photography series by the Colombian artist Juan Manuel Echavarría. Silencios comprises more than 120 portrayals of abandoned schools due to armed conflict in Los Montes de María, Colombia. Sharing Echeverría’s belief that ‘these chalkboards have lessons to tell us about war’, the author of this paper advocates for the pedagogical use of Silencios to promote and support memory works in Colombia. The present analysis acknowledges that hegemonic memories and narratives have a negative impact on conflict-affected societies due to their authoritarian and oppressive character.
Therefore, the pedagogical use of Silencios seeks to ignite multiple narratives and counterhegemonic memories that might emerge as the public interacts with the photography. The visuals, in this sense, become an educational opportunity to stimulate reflection and resistance against the monopoly of the past in a country that is currently emerging from conflict. In this paper, the abandoned schools are considered as memory sites, and as renewed learning spaces to stimulate reflections and debates upon the armed conflict. Silencios can contribute to peacebuilding efforts by bringing up the possibility to reconsider essentialist conceptions of peace, memory, and pedagogy, that might hinder potential venues for enduring peace in Colombia. 相似文献
In response to research demonstrating that irrelevant contextual information can bias forensic science analyses, authorities have increasingly urged laboratories to limit analysts' access to irrelevant and potentially biasing information (Dror and Cole (2010) [3]; National Academy of Sciences (2009) [18]; President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2016) [22]; UK Forensic Science Regulator (2015) [26]). However, a great challenge in implementing this reform is determining which information is task-relevant and which is task-irrelevant. In the current study, we surveyed 183 forensic analysts to examine what they consider relevant versus irrelevant in their forensic analyses. Results revealed that analysts generally do not regard information regarding the suspect or victim as essential to their analytic tasks. However, there was significant variability among analysts within and between disciplines. Findings suggest that forensic science disciplines need to agree on what they regard as task-relevant before context management procedures can be properly implemented. The lack of consensus about what is relevant information not only leaves room for biasing information, but also reveals foundational gaps in what analysts consider crucial in forensic decision making. 相似文献
In the last 50 years Chinese arbitration law and practices has made significant contributions to the international commercial
arbitration and strides to manage the rapidly increasing caseload associated with a period of amazing growth in economic interactions
between Chinese and non-Chinese parties. In the global economy there are rooms for further improvement. The paper proposed
some ideas on reforming the Chinese arbitration law and practices on the arbitration system regarding the ad hoc arbitration,
panel system and tribunal jurisdiction, interim measures of protection, as well as standards for the judicial review on the
arbitral awards. 相似文献
The aim of this paper is to identify the possible substructure (looking glass/es) of a critical legal argument for contractual
justice (Wonderland) in the South African law of contract. South African contract law still fails, ten years after the constitutional
transformation, to reflect the constitutional ideals of freedom, equality and human dignity in an acceptable manner. I argue
that this disposition places a question mark over the legitimacy of contract law and marginalizes opportunities for the social
change envisaged by the Constitution. The paper explores Duncan Kennedy’s Form and Substance-argument and indicates that the
reluctance to accommodate these values may be attributable to the fact that the majority of role-players position themselves
on the individualism/rules side of Kennedy’s continuum – a paradigm that perceives the law of contract as a body of positivistic
rules to be applied neutrally and regardless of the social or socio-economic distortions its application may generate. In
an attempt to move away from this traditional approach, the privileged paradigm is criticised. A typical CLS-approach is followed
which employs sociology, psychological jurisprudence and game theory to criticise the law from outside the restrictive realms
of law itself. Simultaneously, I attempt to illuminate the argument for a shift (step through the looking glass) to another
paradigm. I conclude that our judiciary finds itself in a position similar to that of Plato’s prisoners in the cave and will
not reach the point where they apply relevant (constitutional) values directly to contractual disputes. The State is thus
responsible for infusing contract law with contractual justice, by implementing legislation to this effect in order to limit
the hegemonic consequences of the judiciary’s obsession with freedom of contract and utopian rules, which fail in reality
to further the ideal of justice.
Paper presented at the Critical Legal Conference, 4 September 2004, London, UK. This paper is dedicated to the memory of the
late Judge of Appeal, Mr. Justice P.J. Olivier. The paper is based on research conducted for the thesis in partial fulfilment
of the degree LLD in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria under the title ‘A critical legal argument for contractual
justice in the South African law of contract.’ The degree supervisor is Professor Karin van Marle in the Department of Legal
History, Comparative Law and Jurisprudence. The author wishes to thank the following persons for valuable deliberations and
input: Karin van Marle, Graham Bradfield and Anashri Pillay. In addition, the author wishes to acknowledge and thank the University
of Cape Town for financially supporting this research.
†Paper presented at the Critical Legal Conference, 4 September 2004, London, UK. This paper is dedicated to the memory of
the late Judge of Appeal, Mr. Justice
P.J. Olivier. The paper is based on research conducted for the thesis in partial
fulfilment of the degree LLD in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria
under the title ‘A critical legal argument for contractual justice in the South African
law of contract.’ The degree supervisor is Professor Karin van Marle in the
Department of Legal History, Comparative Law and Jurisprudence. The author
wishes to thank the following persons for valuable deliberations and input: Karin
van Marle, Graham Bradfield and Anashri Pillay. In addition, the author wishes to
acknowledge and thank the University of Cape Town for financially supporting this
research. apply relevant (constitutional) values directly to contractual disputes. The State is
thus responsible for infusing contract law with contractual justice, by implementing
legislation to this effect in order to limit the hegemonic consequences of the judiciary’s
obsession with freedom of contract and utopian rules, which fail in reality to
further the ideal of justice. 相似文献