Victims and Victimhood: Individuals of Inaction or Active Agents of Change? Reflections on Fieldwork in Afghanistan

Saeed, Huma

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“…Victims can be both direct (also referred to as primary victims)i.e., those abused, detained, or persecuted (or killed)and indirect (secondary) as family members of a direct victim, who experience psychological harm or even economic losses if the main family breadwinner was killed and his/her loss signifies fall into poverty and the like (Bloomfield et al 2003, 54;and also Goldblatt 2006, 62). As some argue, while there may be situations of mass victimization when most of society may make claims to victimhood (Saeed 2016), victims and victimhood identities are often determined by contexts and scales of harm i.e., while entire populations may be victimized by wars due to economic and security losses, some groups still suffer disproportionately.…”

Section: Defining Victims For Peacebuildingmentioning

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Roles of Victims in Peacebuilding

Barton-Hronešová

2022

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies

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Section: Defining Victims For Peacebuildingmentioning

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Roles of Victims in Peacebuilding

Barton-Hronešová

2022

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies

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“…This approach necessitates processes designed for dealing with victims of political conflict taking two significant steps: recognising the shared points between all victims; and understanding their differences. The first part of the process frames victims as passive actors (they are given status and rights), whereas the second part frames them as active agents (Saeed, 2016) who are given a voice to articulate the specific circumstances of their victimisation and to have their shared rights tailored according to these. This second part would also promote the agency of victims in the overall conflict transformation process.…”

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A context-based model for framing political victimhood: Experiences from Northern Ireland and the Basque Country

Berastegi

Hearty

2018

International Review of Victimology

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All societies moving towards peace must establish reparation measures for victims of political violence. That is not an easy task, though: political victimhood is a controversial concept by itself and all victims of this type are mixed up with general politics from both the past and the present. In divided societies, such as the North of Ireland and the Basque Country, the controversies about the definition of political victimhood reproduce old divisions from the past. Drawing from these two cases, this research project gathers some initial thoughts to conceptualise political victimhood into three different models: the harm, blame and context-based models. The primary contribution of the article lies in the formulation of the third model, the context-based framework.

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“…10 Oomen and Baumgärtel 2014;. 11 Merry 2006aWiddows and Marway 2015;Saeed 2015;De Feyter et al 2011;Desmet 2014. 12 Brysk 2019, p. 8.…”

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Human Rights Localisation and Individual Agency: From ‘Hobby of the Few’ to the Few Behind the Hobby

Sabchev

Miellet

Durmuş

2021

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Human rights have been facing criticism on many fronts, including the challenges of the “enforcement gap” and the “citizenship gap”, laying bare the shortcomings with regard to the implementation of human rights law as well as regarding its protection of highly vulnerable groups such as refugees. Research on the effectiveness of human rights, the “localisation” of human rights through invocations and practices on the ground, the increased engagement of local authorities with human rights, are all responses to such challenges to some degree. Based on empirical research conducted within municipalities in four countries, this chapter focuses on a missing piece of the puzzle in terms of conceptual and empirical research: the role of “individual agency”. We adopt a socio-legal perspective on human rights and demonstrate that individual agency can make an important contribution to the effective implementation of human rights in the field of migration governance. Behind the black box of the state and local authorities, we find individuals who use human rights—as law, practice and discourse—in local policymaking, in circumstances where invoking human rights is not self-explanatory. Finally, we put forward the notion that reasons such as individual background, motivations, and interactions between individuals influence municipal officials’ engagement with human rights, and we reflect on the conceptual and practical implications that result from this.

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Victims and Victimhood: Individuals of Inaction or Active Agents of Change? Reflections on Fieldwork in Afghanistan

Cited by 18 publications

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Roles of Victims in Peacebuilding

Roles of Victims in Peacebuilding

A context-based model for framing political victimhood: Experiences from Northern Ireland and the Basque Country

Human Rights Localisation and Individual Agency: From ‘Hobby of the Few’ to the Few Behind the Hobby

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