Violence all around /John Sifton.

By:

Sifton, John [Author]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674426054

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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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