Under these circumstances, the international media coverage of Eta's propaganda coup has allowed it again to divert responsibility for resolving the conflict away from the only ones really responsible for it: the perpetrators of violence.
Others, notably in Greece, have sought to divert responsibility).
"In an attempt to divert responsibility from himself, he instructed his lawyers in this trial to expose to the world her most private, adolescent thoughts, secrets and worries, and sought to hint that she was a dark, unhappy and troubled person," Wilkie said.
In this way, Syngenta illustrates how framing social, economic and political problems as a technical question can result in the delegation of essentially political decisions to expert committees, which effectively divert responsibility from political actors to technoscientific networks by denying the normative dimensions of controversial issues[20].
"As a result of the Orgreave and Hillsborough debacles," Waddington wrote recently in the journal Contemporary Social Science, "tremendous harm was done to the reputation and public standing of [South Yorkshire police] due not only to the misconduct of their officers, but also to corresponding attempts to divert responsibilities on to the victims".
In response, a spokesperson diverted responsibility to the Department of Agriculture, who cover the "importation of household pets".
Cameron must find some way of diverting responsibility on to others, much as Brown diverted blame for his domestic credit crunch on to "the world economy".
In a recent phone-in session open to the public, Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, in effect accused Mr Khodorkovsky of murder, diverted responsibility for Yukos's bankruptcy to foreign banks and took pride in returning to the Russian people the money he says was stolen from them.But few Russians seem to subscribe to that version of events.
Governments and the industries most accountable for the demise of Canada's natural environment have perversely and consistently diverted responsibility and accountability to others, including grey wolves.
Such arguments not only ignore the closely drawn intersections of wealth inequality and racism that surrounds students' lives, but also diverts responsibility away from the very high stakes test-heavy curriculum that only accentuates, not closes, the racial achievement gap "choice" models are argued to alleviate (and that ironically, many charter school chains have now embraced).
Further, governance does not always calibrate to the full range of interests in society, but often only to the interests of particular groups, by diverting responsibilities whilst blurring interest-based motivations.
