The Weatherhead Center's Program on International Conflict
Analysis and Resolution (PICAR) will close on July 31, 2003,
after a long, productive, and distinguished trajectory under
the leadership of Professor Herbert Kelman.....
Email correspondence regarding the Centerpiece
or any other matters may be directed to:
Targeting Civilians in Wartime, by Alexander B. Downes
Why do states sometimes target and kill civilians intentionally in war? According
to one estimate, of the nearly 110 million warrelated deaths in the twentieth century
alone, 56 percent were civilians. Noncombatants died in the greatest numbers in the
twentieth century, but the practice of brutalizing civilians in wartime is, as Caleb
Carr notes, "as old as warfare
itself.".....
Inconstant Homeland, by Haley Duschinski
Kashmiri Hindu migrants remember their homes through complex stories, marked by traumas
as well as continuities. Whereas nationalist forms of historical discourse in South Asia
identify the past, present, and future of Kashmir Valley in terms of moral certitude,
these migrants' stories produce an unstable and shifting territory, an inconstant homeland
that may be inhabited in various ways by myriad speakers and
subjects.....
