ABSTRACT The history of US intervention to rescue Jews from Nazi persecution during World War II has mostly focused on the work of the War Refugee Board (WRB) created in 1944 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland's wartime experience as humanitarians reflects a different form of American intervention in the Holocaust. The years spent in Europe as delegates of the Quaker‐based American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) opened a door for them and changed the course of thousands of lives. During his years abroad, Roswell McClelland became an influential nongovernmental leader in humanitarian affairs, coordinating relief with other organizations and government officials. During the last year of the war, he worked as an official representative of the WRB rescuing Jews from Nazi persecution. Tracing Roswell and Marjorie McClelland's humanitarian work during World War II represents a form of humanitarian intervention through rescue and relief.
ABSTRACT To investigate how imagination partakes in shaping the spaces in which we think and live, and what processes could help imagining social realities differently, the present work proposes an interweaving of peace and literature. The analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Patrick Süskind's Perfume is founded upon an understanding of literature as a conduit for the establishment of spaces wherein imagination of peace can take place, and narratives of violence can be explored and transformed. By combining theoretical lenses from Medina and Lederach (2025, 2005), the analysis of multifaceted social violence, as narrated by the novels, can be interpreted as an appeal for peace, in which the transformation of peace structures is considered a social imperative. This work explores the relationship between individual and social experiences and their impact on collective social mental health, thereby highlighting the need to examine and modify our peace agencies to address the influence of pervasive violent narratives in our cultures.
