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HISTORY EMPATHY AND CONFLICT - PHILIP TOWLE GEB...

This book argues that popular culture has been transformed in a silent revolution from
emphasising history's heroes to its victims. While city squares and stations were named in the
nineteenth century after military victories  now the equivalent airports are named after the
victims of violence. Where war reports used to focus on the leadership of the generals and the
bravery of the troops  now they are mostly about casualties  refugees and destruction. History
Empathy and Conflict examines the diplomatic consequences of such a revolution in sensibility.
Many governments have responded by apologising for their country's historic actions. History
teaching in schools has sometimes been revised to reflect the new emphasis and to build
confidence between nations and respect for domestic minorities. Not least of the reasons for
these changes is the difficulty or impossibility of making restitution for past wrongs. But
history can also be used by the media and governments to justify intervention to protect
victims of civil wars only to come to be seen as victimisers themselves. The past is always
difficult to interpret but is the basis of all our decisions and all institutions try to twist
it to their own convenience. Sympathy with history's victims is a great moral advance but it
can be used by dissatisfied nations to justify their revisionist policies and with the election
of President Trump in 2016  all the Great Powers claim to be history's victims.

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