Violence all around
By: John Sifton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780674057692
Subjects: Human rights; Violence; Human rights workers
Description: "A human rights lawyer recounts his visits to troubled world regions on both sides of September 11 to document the abuses of warlords, terrorists and counterterrorism forces while evaluating the plausibility of nonviolent social change,"--Novelist.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Deeds; title: The desert of the real; title: Continent and conquest; title: Violence and distance; title: The limits of remote violence; title: Words; title: The theater of force; title: Defining violence; title: Torture; title: The violence of nonviolence; title: Outrage; title: Terror as justice; title: Change; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.