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Violence all around /John Sifton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674426054
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JC571 .V565 2015
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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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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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