Power and Violence

Neither the 'liberation' by the Japanese, nor independence brought the Indonesians the much hoped for peace and quiet. New violence emerged: criminally or politically motivated? Australian historian Robert Cribb tells about the research into the relationship between violence and politics in a rapidly changing society.

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Date and time Thursday 11 January 2007 15:30 tot 16:15 uur
Location Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

Neither the 'liberation' by the Japanese, nor independence brought the Indonesians the much hoped for peace and quiet. New violence emerged: criminally or politically motivated? Australian historian Robert Cribb told about the research into the relationship between violence and politics in a rapidly changing society.

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Robert Cribb

(1957) born in Brisbane, Australia. In 1984 he received his Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London with the thesis 'Jakarta in the Indonesian revolution, 1945-1949'. From 1990 to 2003 he taught Southeast Asian history at the University of Queensland. Since then he has been Senior Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies of the Australian National University. In 1993 he was visiting lecturer at the college Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania at the University of Leiden and in 1988 and 1989 Fellow-in-Residence at NIAS (the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies) in Wassenaar. Within the research programme 'From Dutch East Indies to Indonesia' he is responsible for the study into New Orders carried out by the NIOD in Amsterdam.
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