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Violence All Around / John Sifton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674057692
  • 9780674426054
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6 23
LOC classification:
  • JC571 .S5327 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. DEEDS -- 1. The Desert of the Real -- 2. Conquest and Consequences -- 3. Violence and Distance -- 4. The Limits of Remote Violence -- Part II : WORDS -- 5. The Theater of Force -- 6. Defining Violence -- 7. Torture -- 8. The Violence of Nonviolence -- 9. Outrage -- 10. Terror as Justice -- 11. Change -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: 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 uphold them, including the very violence they deplore.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674426054

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. DEEDS -- 1. The Desert of the Real -- 2. Conquest and Consequences -- 3. Violence and Distance -- 4. The Limits of Remote Violence -- Part II : WORDS -- 5. The Theater of Force -- 6. Defining Violence -- 7. Torture -- 8. The Violence of Nonviolence -- 9. Outrage -- 10. Terror as Justice -- 11. Change -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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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 uphold them, including the very violence they deplore.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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