While the international arena is littered with events of war and atrocities, the memory of the Holocaust was institutionalized as the ultimate benchmark of human suffering within the liberal world order. Against the backdrop of such a global memory landscape, this article explores how different memories of trauma interact. Building on literature within international relations, sociology and social psychology, as well as survey data collected from a sample of Syrians, Palestinians and Israelis, its analysis explores how victims of political violence compare their suffering with that of others and why such comparisons slip easily into competition. The analysis found that individuals were competitive with their memories when they showed high levels of patriotic attachment and a real and perceived, yet unrecognized, sense of victimhood. This article thus offers insight into a key issue in peace and conflict studies: the links between traumatic memory, victimhood, international recognition and conflict.

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世界政治中的创伤：不同受害者群体之间的记忆动态


尽管国际舞台上充斥着战争和暴行事件，但大屠杀的记忆已被制度化，成为自由世界秩序中人类苦难的最终基准。在这样一个全球记忆格局的背景下，本文探讨了不同的创伤记忆如何相互作用。其分析以国际关系、社会学和社会心理学领域的文献以及从叙利亚人、巴勒斯坦人和以色列人样本中收集的调查数据为基础，探讨了政治暴力的受害者如何将自己的痛苦与其他人的痛苦进行比较，以及为什么这种比较很容易陷入困境。竞赛。分析发现，当人们表现出高度的爱国情感和真实的、可感知的、但未被认识到的受害者感时，他们就会与自己的记忆竞争。因此，本文深入探讨了和平与冲突研究中的一个关键问题：创伤记忆、受害者身份、国际认可与冲突之间的联系。