Violence all around /

A human rights lawyer travels to hot zones around the globe before and after 9/11 to document abuses by warlords, terrorists, and counterterrorism forces. John Sifton reminds us that human rights advocates can only shame the world into better behavior; to invoke rights is to invoke the force to upho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sifton, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Human rights.
Human rights workers.
Violence.
Civil rights workers.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme.
violence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Civil rights workers
Human rights
Human rights workers
Violence
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Part I: Deeds
  • The desert of the real
  • Continent and conquest
  • Violence and distance
  • The limits of remote violence
  • Part II: Words
  • The theater of force
  • Defining violence
  • Torture
  • The violence of nonviolence
  • Outrage
  • Terror as justice
  • Change
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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