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There is a scene in the 2012 Oscar winning movie Lincoln (Spielberg, 2012) when US President Abraham Lincoln meets with Congressman George Yeaman towards the end of the American Civil War to persuade him to vote in favour of the proposed Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery. An unconvinced Yeaman argues that ‘we are entirely unready for emancipation’, to which Lincoln retorts:
We’re unready for peace too, ain’t we? Yeah, when it comes, it’ll present us with conundrums and dangers greater than any we’ve faced during the war, bloody as it’s been. We’ll have to extemporize and experiment with what it is, when it is.
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Steenkamp, C. (2014). Conclusion. In: Violent Societies. Rethinking Political Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137290656_7
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