Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence

Mundy, Jacob

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“…Instead, it asserts the necessity to scrutinize the variation of criminal justice effect across post-conflict contents underlying the key analytical elements that would affect crafting the headlines of that criminal justice, including the contextual characteristics, balance between the victims' requirements and peace prerequisites, justice expected from different victims' communities, and winner impact. Addressing those peacebuilding concerns, and far from the view that focuses on international law issues and whether amnesties are legitimate and legal, various scholars started to explore the diverse array of amnesty laws and investigate the extent to which those procedures could contribute to reconciliation and how those measures could be balanced with alternative mechanisms to guarantee a smooth transition (Chapman & Hugo ven der, 2008;Gavron, 2002;Mallinder, 2009;Mundy, 2015;Sarkin, 2009).…”

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The National Reconciliation Process in Algeria During the Bouteflika’s Era: The Official Narrative

Zeraoulia

2023

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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The political and academic debate over reconciliation in Algeria is inconclusive. Although it faced international criticism, the post-war regime succeeded in enhancing peace and containing the cycle of violence. The national reconciliation process followed a highly controversial peace agreement designed by the Intelligence and Security Department. Then, it was conducted and directed after 1999 by an elected President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, with the support of a heterogeneous alliance of reconciliation entrepreneurs. This study highlights the main components of the official perspective: how the reconciliation was perceived and concretized, its mechanisms and strategies, and main conceptualizations. It illuminates the official narrative based on analyzing materials, including the president’s statements, interviews, and newspaper archives.

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The National Reconciliation Process in Algeria During the Bouteflika’s Era: The Official Narrative

Zeraoulia

2023

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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“…The governance of the country headed the State High Committee (SHC) 5 leading by Mohamed Boudiaf [6, p.53]. At the same time, the state of emergency was restored in the country 6 , the activity of the FIS was banned, the leaders were imprisoned.…”

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“…The State High Committee in Algeria consists of five people and is endowed with presidential power. It was established in 1992, January 14 6. The State of emergency was canceled in 1991 for the parliamentary elections.…”

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Reasons And Development Of The "Algeria Crisis". The Attempts At A Political Settlement In 1991-1995

Gasparyan

2022

“Katchar” Collection of Scientific Articles International Scientific-Educational Center NAS RA

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Algeria's domestic political environment began to change rapidly in 1989 February, after the adoption of the new Constitution, article 40 of which guaranteed the right to form political unions. This democratic process led to the legalization and further strengthening of many parties, including the Islamic. The purpose of this article is to present the socio-political developments in Algeria, which emerged as a result of the widespread Islamic movements in the country. The systemic crisis in Algeria during this period was one of the most important factors that significantly influenced the spreading of extremist Islamic ideologies in society. The Islamic movement united around the Islamic Salvation Front in a very short time and the latter became the most influential, strong Islamic organization whose primary goal was the Islamization of Algeria. In this context, special emphasis has been required on the role of the army in resolving the Algerian crisis. Due to the peculiarities of historical development, the army had a special role in the political life of the country, it was the only real force that was able to maintain the secular system established in Algeria. The attempts to resolve the economic, political, and social consequences of the armed struggle launched by the authorities against the Islamists are also studied in this article. The steps taken by the authorities and the opposition parties in the peaceful settlement of the "Algerian crisis" are considered separately. It is noteworthy that despite the fact that the supporters of the Islamization of the country were a huge and influential force, nevertheless, the authorities managed to maintain the established system of the government, preventing the further development of the Islamic extremist movements in the country.

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“…Despite the successive criticisms by religious men from all Arab countries of the insurgents’ strategies in Algeria, more radical armed groups continued using some killing techniques and tactics that were connected to religious practices. Slaughtering, for example, signified the sacrifice for God and killing of lamb after the Isha prayer or during the Fajr prayer in Ramadan (Mundy, 2015, p. 80) are indicators that demonstrate how the armed groups were claiming that Takfiri ideology had manipulated religious symbols to generalize a state of terror. In the early phases of the civil war, the enemy was a state official, opposed journalist, musician, political activist, moderate Islamist, or a professor.…”

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“…The army was facing a guerrilla war and the society was suffering from a high-level fragmentation. Despite successive attempts of the political system to control the access to information, the severity, complexity, and high intensity of violence was tempting for an impressive range of scholars who represented remarkable works on the traumatic events of the civil war (Kalyvas, 1999; Martinez, 1998; Mundy, 2015; Quandt, 1998; Roberts, 2003). Discussing and investigating contentious subjects, these scholars succeeded to analyze the violent events in the country and to highlight the deep societal cleavage caused by the contradictory postindependence policies.…”

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The Memory of the Civil War in Algeria: Lessons from the Past with Reference to the Algerian Hirak

Zeraoulia

2020

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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The Algerian Civil War during the 1990s is considered to be one of the violent wars in the Arab world. For one decade, isolated from the international community, the country and its civilians suffered from extremism, radicalism, torture, and assassinations. Today, it is arguable that the memory of the Algerian Civil War played a pivotal role in producing the legitimacy of the political system and framing the citizens’ perceptions of the postwar regime before the current manifestations. Nevertheless, no field research has explored how that memory is represented and recalled by the people. Through analyzing the public narrative, surveying and examining the public platforms, and conversations dealing with the past civil war in Algeria, this article seeks to demonstrate how that violent past is remembered in the public arena, the emotions that have been accumulated from such experience and the lessons that have been learned by the people. In doing so, we use many examples from the Algerian manifestations after 22 February 2019, or what is called “the Algerian Hirak.”

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Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence

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The National Reconciliation Process in Algeria During the Bouteflika’s Era: The Official Narrative

The National Reconciliation Process in Algeria During the Bouteflika’s Era: The Official Narrative

Reasons And Development Of The "Algeria Crisis". The Attempts At A Political Settlement In 1991-1995

The Memory of the Civil War in Algeria: Lessons from the Past with Reference to the Algerian Hirak

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