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How We Remember War and Violence: Theory and Practice (FutureLearn)

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How We Remember War and Violence: Theory and Practice (FutureLearn)
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Compare three models of remembering, exploring how the new model of ‘agonistic memory’ can help us better understand conflict. Consider how we recall war and violence and discover a different way to remember. Our memories of conflict are often used against us. Nationalist movements manipulate the story - offering [...]

Irish Lives in War and Revolution: Exploring Ireland's History 1912-1923 (FutureLearn)

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Irish Lives in War and Revolution: Exploring Ireland's History 1912-1923 (FutureLearn)
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Explore the lives of men, women and children living through war and revolution and social changes that made modern Ireland. How do people experience war and revolution? How does political change, violence, total war, affect life in its most basic ways? Looking at Ireland through war and revolution, this [...]
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Military Ethics: An Introduction (FutureLearn)

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Military Ethics: An Introduction (FutureLearn)
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We explore the ethical responsibilities that weigh on military professionals, who are ‘managers of violence’. Military professionals are unusual in having the use of lethal force as a central, defining feature of their role, and unique in the level of force that they are authorized to use. This fact [...]

World War 1: Lessons and Legacy of the Great War (FutureLearn)

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 World War 1: Lessons and Legacy of the Great War (FutureLearn)
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Learn how the Allies defeat the Germans in World War 1, how the memory arose that the war was futile, and why this view is untrue. What is your understanding of World War I? Brave men led to their deaths by stupid officers? A war of trenches, mud and [...]

World War 1: Changing Faces of Heroism (FutureLearn)

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World War 1: Changing Faces of Heroism (FutureLearn)
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Learn how the war moved us away from traditional views of heroism and created new kinds of heroes and heroines. Did the First World War make heroism meaningless or was it the conflict that gave it the most meaning? We’ve designed this course in partnership with the BBC [...]

World War 1: Aviation Comes of Age (FutureLearn)

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World War 1: Aviation Comes of Age (FutureLearn)
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Investigate how the white heat of innovation in World War 1 shaped the history of human flight. Investigate how the early days of aviation gripped the imagination of the general public, galvanised industry and excited far-sighted members of the military, with this free online course from the University of [...]

World War 1: Paris 1919 - A New World Order? (FutureLearn)

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World War 1: Paris 1919 - A New World Order? (FutureLearn)
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This course reassesses the legacy of the Paris Peace Conference (1919) and how it sought to create a new world order. The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 ended a Great War, but it also designed the post-war future. In 1919, world leaders assembled in Paris redrew the map of [...]

Health Care in Danger: The Rights and Responsibilities of Health-Care Personnel Working in Armed Conflict and Other Emergencies (ICRC)

The rights and responsibilities e-learning module is a web based educational tool designed to provide health care workers with an in depth explanation of their rights and responsibilities during armed conflicts and other emergencies. Developed by the International Committee of the Red Cross, it includes 7 chapters addressing specific [...]