Christian Gudehus

• PhD
• Senior Researcher at Ruhr University Bochum

Die in der Türkei liegende Region Dersim ist seit jeher Kristallisationspunkt vielfältiger geschichtlicher, kultureller und sprachlicher Entwicklungen. Die Historie des auch heute noch überwiegend von der alevitischen Religionsgemeinschaft bewohnten Gebiets ist dabei eng verwoben mit der Gewaltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Die Dersim-Massaker zw...

Das Guillotinieren im Nachgang der Französischen Revolution, die Gesellschaftsjagd oder sexuelle Gewalt während des Genozids in Ruanda – all dies sind Gewaltkontexte, die praxeologisch erschlossen werden können. Die Texte des Bandes eröffnen Perspektiven auf räumliche Anordnungen, Artefakte oder bestimmte Handlungsimpulse im Zusammenhang mit Gewalt...

The present chapter first discusses how violence is defined, considering the dimensions of time and space as well as four ideal-typical perspectives on violence. A brief overview of common psychological explanations for collective violence follows. This includes Ingroup-Outgroup constellations, (low or threatened) self-esteem, construction of scape...

Genozide werden allgemeinhin als die intentionale, oft aber nicht nur mit physischer Gewalt verbundene Vernichtung einer klar identifizierbaren Gruppe von Nichtkombattantinnen und Nichtkombattanten verstanden. So neu der Begriff ist, so alt sind viele der Praktiken. Dazu gehören massenhafte Tötungen, Vertreibungen, Versklavung, Kinderdiebstahl, Zer...

INTRODUCTION In the context of a Handbook such as this, perpetrators are people who facilitate and execute genocidal violence. It seems logical that the scope of perpetrator research is simultaneously narrower and broader than that of genocide studies. It is narrower because its focus is exclusively on people called perpetrators. Accordingly, it is...

This editorial to "HARM - Journal of Hostility, Anger, Repression and Malice" outlines the extent to which established international research on violence and aggression requires a more differentiated and fine-grained examination of the preconditions, developmental pathways and manifestations of interpersonal harmful social behavior.

It seems to have become an unquestioned standard in genocide research to abbreviate a very limited number of mainly social psychological studies to help explain that individuals commit violent acts in the context of collective violence. This exemplary review of adaptations of Solomon E. Asch’s studies on independence and conformity hopes to reveal...

I consider the concept of 'perpetrator research' fraught with problems and therefore would like to suggest another approach (which by no means claims exclusivity). Taking actions as a starting point of research on collective violence removes the need to reconcile what can hardly be grasped morally with the often still normal existence (before the a...

The paper critiques the concept of ‘perpetrator research’ and advocates for an approach that takes actions as the starting point of research on collective violence.

Perpetrator Research has been around for some time. It has many merits. This is in no way meant patronizingly but with genuine appreciation. This text does not intend to praise, criticise or historicise the diverse approaches that labelled themselves or were labelled as research on those individuals that played diverse, often extremely violent part...

The chapter gives a brief introduction in how cultural psychologists approach violence

Der Beitrag stellt im Überblick die theoretische Schule bzw. Denkrichtung des Symbolischen Interaktionismus von ihrer Entstehung und Entwicklung bis hin zu ihren heutigen Einflüssen in Sozialpsychologie, Soziologie und Geschichtswissenschaft dar. Von seinem bedeutendsten Urheber George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) wurde der Symbolische Interaktionismus...

This chapter shifts our focus towards perpetration as action and develops a theory of action to underlie the study of perpetrators. It argues that violence can best be understood as violence. It draws on a rich tradition in social theory, including the concepts of frame, mentality, figuration, social norms and practices, to argue that it is a more...

War crimes are individual actions, or consist of such. Yet, since they are carried out within the context of war, they are equally actions of collective violence. Approaching this field from a violence studies perspective means focusing on the concrete actions in question and the conditions of their emergence. The rich empirical and theoretical wor...

Perpetrator Research has been around for some time. It has many merits. This is in no way meant patronizingly but with genuine appreciation. This text does not intend to praise, criticise or historicise the diverse approaches that labelled themselves or were labelled as research on those individuals that played diverse, often extremely violent part...

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal provides a much-needed forum for discussion, as it fosters awareness of the atrocities linked to genocide while promoting the necessity of prevention. This peer-reviewed journal publishes articles on the latest developments in policy, research, and theory from various disciplines including h...

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal provides a much-needed forum for discussion, as it fosters awareness of the atrocities linked to genocide while promoting the necessity of prevention. This peer-reviewed journal publishes articles on the latest developments in policy, research, and theory from various disciplines including h...

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal provides a much-needed forum for discussion, as it fosters awareness of the atrocities linked to genocide while promoting the necessity of prevention. This peer-reviewed journal publishes articles on the latest developments in policy, research, and theory from various disciplines including h...

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal provides a much-needed forum for discussion, as it fosters awareness of the atrocities linked to genocide while promoting the necessity of prevention. This peer-reviewed journal publishes articles on the latest developments in policy, research, and theory from various disciplines including h...

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal provides a much-needed forum for discussion, as it fosters awareness of the atrocities linked to genocide while promoting the necessity of prevention. This peer-reviewed journal publishes articles on the latest developments in policy, research, and theory from various disciplines including h...

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal provides a much-needed forum for discussion, as it fosters awareness of the atrocities linked to genocide while promoting the necessity of prevention. This peer-reviewed journal publishes articles on the latest developments in policy, research, and theory from various disciplines including h...

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal provides a much-needed forum for discussion, as it fosters awareness of the atrocities linked to genocide while promoting the necessity of prevention. This peer-reviewed journal publishes articles on the latest developments in policy, research, and theory from various disciplines including h...

We introduce a tool that supports knowledge workers who want to gain insights from a tweet collection, but due to time constraints cannot go over all tweets. Our system first pre-processes, de-duplicates, and clusters the tweets. The detected clusters are presented to the expert as so-called information threads. Subsequently, based on the informati...

RESUMO Recordação e memória são fenômenos secundários. Preenchem funções vitais para a ação humana individual e coletiva. Assim sendo, precisam ser investigados neste contexto, e não como um tema sui generis. Uma forma de dar concretude a esta afirmação é combinando esses dois fenômenos com teorias da ação encontradas nas ciências sociais e nas ciê...

Überblick über ein hochbrisantes Thema. Auf den globalen Schauplätzen oder auf dem Schulhof nebenan, Gewalt ist hier wie dort gegenwärtig und wird in den Medien intensiv diskutiert. Was verbirgt sich hinter dem Begriff Gewalt ? Woraus erwächst Gewalt und wie äußert sie sich? Welches sind die Umstände und Ursachen? Von der Anthropologie bis zu den S...

Das, was gegenwärtig unter dem Stichwort ›Gewalt‹ erforscht wird, ist außerordentlich vielfältig und facettenreich. Hinzu kommt: Gewaltforschung ist in nahezu allen Disziplinen ein stetig wachsendes Feld wissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung. Will man bestimmen, was ›Gewalt‹ ist, sollen also Gegenstand und Begriff definiert werden, so ist dies mit...

Die Entstehung der Kulturwissenschaften hat das Feld der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften in den letzten Jahren gehörig in Bewegung gebracht. Neue transdisziplinäre und zunehmend auch transkulturelle Wissensordnungen bilden sich heraus, eine Vielzahl neuer Studiengänge wurde ins Leben gerufen. Doch was ist eigentlich der Kern der »Kulturwissenscha...

This study focuses on the movie Hotel Rwanda (2005), which depicts the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and tries to capture how viewers remember the film and how they interpret the actual events. It aims to reconstruct what (e.g. actors, events, motives, causes) is remembered by whom (e.g. age, sex, education) and in what way (e.g. context, dramatization...

Die gesamte Bandbreite der Gedächtnisforschung. Ausgehend von den neurologischen und psychologischen Grundlagen betrachtet das Handbuch die vielfältigen Formen des Gedächtnisses darunter das autobiografische, das kollektive, das kommunikative und das soziale Gedächtnis. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt bildet die unterschiedliche Repräsentation von Gedäc...

Die Sozialpsychologie widmet sich der wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung des Zusammenspiels von sozialer Interaktion, Sozialstruktur sowie individuellem Handeln und Erleben (vgl. Troyer & Youngreen 2004). Als Teildisziplin der Psychologie steht die Erforschung der Gesetzmäßigkeiten menschlichen Erlebens und Verhaltens im Zentrum ihres Interesses, jedo...

Unter ›tradieren‹ wird gemeinhin ›weitergeben‹ verstanden. Regelmäßig findet der Begriff Verwendung im Zusammenhang mit der Weitergabe von Umgangsweisen oder Tätigkeiten (z. B. Bräuchen, Ritualen), praktischem Wissen (z.B. Baukunst, Heilkunst), aber auch Werten, vor allem jedoch von Wissen über die Vergangenheit, mithin also Geschichten und Geschic...

This article is based on the findings of an empirical study that is being conducted in Austria, Poland, and Germany. The material consists of a total of sixty group discussions with families, people of different age groups, as well as individuals dealing professionally with history and memory, including historians, teachers, politicians, journalist...