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oapen-20.500.12657-338232024-03-12T13:29:15Z Anomie and Violence Braithwaite, John Braithwaite, Valerie Cookson, Michael Dunn, Leah politics and government conflictmanagement social conditions social conflict indonesia political violence Aceh Dayak people Indigenous people of New Guinea Madurese people Maluku Islands Papua (province) bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence, terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2002 Indonesia had the worst terrorism problem of any nation. All these forms of violence have now fallen dramatically. How was this accomplished? What drove the rise and the fall of violence? Anomie theory is deployed to explain these developments. Sudden institutional change at the time of the Asian financial crisis and the fall of President Suharto meant the rules of the game were up for grabs. Valerie Braithwaite’s motivational postures theory is used to explain the gaming of the rules and the disengagement from authority that occurred in that era. Ultimately resistance to Suharto laid a foundation for commitment to a revised, more democratic, institutional order. The peacebuilding that occurred was not based on the high-integrity truth-seeking and reconciliation that was the normative preference of these authors. Rather it was based on non-truth, sometimes lies, and yet substantial reconciliation. This poses a challenge to restorative justice theories of peacebuilding. 2013-11-05 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:57:07Z 2020-04-01T14:57:07Z 2010 book 458801 OCN: 516510060 9781921666230 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33823 eng application/pdf n/a 458801.pdf http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/peacebuilding-compared/anomie_ciation ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_458801 10.26530/OAPEN_458801 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781921666230 501 Canberra open access
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Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence, terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2002 Indonesia had the worst terrorism problem of any nation. All these forms of violence have now fallen dramatically. How was this accomplished? What drove the rise and the fall of violence? Anomie theory is deployed to explain these developments. Sudden institutional change at the time of the Asian financial crisis and the fall of President Suharto meant the rules of the game were up for grabs. Valerie Braithwaite’s motivational postures theory is used to explain the gaming of the rules and the disengagement from authority that occurred in that era. Ultimately resistance to Suharto laid a foundation for commitment to a revised, more democratic, institutional order. The peacebuilding that occurred was not based on the high-integrity truth-seeking and reconciliation that was the normative preference of these authors. Rather it was based on non-truth, sometimes lies, and yet substantial reconciliation. This poses a challenge to restorative justice theories of peacebuilding.
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