War crimes Books
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for
Book SynopsisIBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™ gold winner, poetry category Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but it raged on for over a decade, bringing misery to millions of people in West Africa from 1991 to 2002. The atrocities committed in this war and the accounts of its survivors were duly recorded by international organizations, but they run the risk of being consigned to dusty historical archives. Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, this remarkable poetry collection aims to breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone’s civil war, delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon. By rendering selected trial transcripts in poetic form, Shanee Stepakoff finds a novel way to communicate not only the suffering of Sierra Leone’s people, but also their courage, dignity, and resilience. Her use of innovative literary techniques helps to ensure that the voices of survivors are not forgotten, but rather heard across the world. This volume also includes an introduction that explores how the genre of “found poetry” can serve as a uniquely powerful means through which writers may bear witness to atrocity. This book’s unforgettable excavation and shaping of survivor testimonies opens new possibilities for speaking about the unspeakable.Trade Review“When politics invades lives in the most brutal of ways, what can be fashioned from the aftermath? In these found poems Shanee Stepakoff has taken the testimonies of those upon whom the violence was committed and turned them into a work of witness, Nadine Gordimer’s ‘inward testimony’ that it is the task of artists to deliver. Outwardly the poems in this collection stand as monument to remembrance and commemoration, a stay against oblivion for the people of Sierra Leone whose lives were marked by the civil conflict of 1991-2002. They are a significant contribution to the literature of that country and of conflict.” -- Aminatta Forna * author of Happiness *“Of the many forms of human suffering, ethical loneliness—the experience of enduring atrocity only to be confronted with the annihilating cruelty and injustice of remaining unheard—sheds a radiant, hurt light on the very nature and power of language itself. In stark, beautifully calibrated lines, Shanee Stepakoff reaches into that silence to serve and bring forth these necessary voices. Here, the plainest words—‘I saw,’ ‘I heard,’ ‘I walked,’—take on an almost shocking and devastating dignity. As the survivors recount their stories, it is as if each syllable, each word, is a bone stripped bare. ‘He was burning,’ ‘I used to be,’ ‘I was born,’ ‘he was cutting the child.’ At once unsparing and informed by a deep tenderness and care, this darkly luminous work implicitly interrogates the nature of authorship and poetic form, and like all seminal works, helps to question, expand, and re-define their boundaries.” -- Laurie Sheck * Pulitzer Prize nominated author of The Willow Grove *“These ‘found poems’ are unquestionably harrowing to read and painful to absorb. Eight survivors of the murderous cruelty and atrocities committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone tell their own stories, and in their own words. Every one of these words is drawn from transcripts of the war crimes tribunals that came with the end of that war. Shanee Stepakoff—a psychologist who has long worked with survivors of torture—brings to these transcript accounts her poet’s sense of lineation, stanzaic structure, pauses, refrains, and repetitions. Thus, she creates a ceremonial space in which we as readers might begin to hear and bear witness to the unbearable degree of violence, suffering, and loss that these women and men endured." -- Fred Marchant * author of Said Not Said: Poems *“With this collection, Shanee Stepakoff finally breaks the veil of silence that surrounds the unspeakable horrors of Sierra Leone’s long civil war. She has recomposed the official accounts to offer us both the intimacy and eternality of survivor stories.” -- Remi Raji * author of A Harvest of Laughers * “The incredible horrors painfully recited herein, including the mutilation of children, mass rapes and torture by rival revolutionary groups makes us wonder whether humans are really human. Shanee Stepakoff’s documented testimonies illustrate the continuing crying need for effective international controls and binding laws to deter such atrocities everywhere.” -- Benjamin Ferencz * investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials *"At once astonishing and devastating, these poems attest to poetry’s ability to bear witness to atrocity, while the poignant cover image by Liberian American artist and war refugee Papay Solomon reminds us of those whose voices have been silenced for too long." * Poetry Foundation *“When politics invades lives in the most brutal of ways, what can be fashioned from the aftermath? In these found poems Shanee Stepakoff has taken the testimonies of those upon whom the violence was committed and turned them into a work of witness, Nadine Gordimer’s ‘inward testimony’ that it is the task of artists to deliver. Outwardly the poems in this collection stand as monument to remembrance and commemoration, a stay against oblivion for the people of Sierra Leone whose lives were marked by the civil conflict of 1991-2002. They are a significant contribution to the literature of that country and of conflict.” -- Aminatta Forna * author of Happiness *“Of the many forms of human suffering, ethical loneliness—the experience of enduring atrocity only to be confronted with the annihilating cruelty and injustice of remaining unheard—sheds a radiant, hurt light on the very nature and power of language itself. In stark, beautifully calibrated lines, Shanee Stepakoff reaches into that silence to serve and bring forth these necessary voices. Here, the plainest words—‘I saw,’ ‘I heard,’ ‘I walked,’—take on an almost shocking and devastating dignity. As the survivors recount their stories, it is as if each syllable, each word, is a bone stripped bare. ‘He was burning,’ ‘I used to be,’ ‘I was born,’ ‘he was cutting the child.’ At once unsparing and informed by a deep tenderness and care, this darkly luminous work implicitly interrogates the nature of authorship and poetic form, and like all seminal works, helps to question, expand, and re-define their boundaries.” -- Laurie Sheck * Pulitzer Prize nominated author of The Willow Grove *“These ‘found poems’ are unquestionably harrowing to read and painful to absorb. Eight survivors of the murderous cruelty and atrocities committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone tell their own stories, and in their own words. Every one of these words is drawn from transcripts of the war crimes tribunals that came with the end of that war. Shanee Stepakoff—a psychologist who has long worked with survivors of torture—brings to these transcript accounts her poet’s sense of lineation, stanzaic structure, pauses, refrains, and repetitions. Thus, she creates a ceremonial space in which we as readers might begin to hear and bear witness to the unbearable degree of violence, suffering, and loss that these women and men endured." -- Fred Marchant * author of Said Not Said: Poems *“With this collection, Shanee Stepakoff finally breaks the veil of silence that surrounds the unspeakable horrors of Sierra Leone’s long civil war. She has recomposed the official accounts to offer us both the intimacy and eternality of survivor stories.” -- Remi Raji * author of A Harvest of Laughers * “The incredible horrors painfully recited herein, including the mutilation of children, mass rapes and torture by rival revolutionary groups makes us wonder whether humans are really human. Shanee Stepakoff’s documented testimonies illustrate the continuing crying need for effective international controls and binding laws to deter such atrocities everywhere.” -- Benjamin Ferencz * investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the last surviving prosecutor at the Nurember *"At once astonishing and devastating, these poems attest to poetry’s ability to bear witness to atrocity, while the poignant cover image by Liberian American artist and war refugee Papay Solomon reminds us of those whose voices have been silenced for too long." * Poetry Foundation *Table of ContentsForeword by Ernest D. Cole Notes on the Text Introduction: Silence, Language, and the Making of Art The Amputee’s Mother The Child Soldier The Grieving Father The Rape Survivor The Blinded Farmer The Widower The Gravedigger The Beggar The Victim of War Further Resources Acknowledgments About the Cover Artist About the Author
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Melville House Publishing The Future of War Crimes Justice
Book SynopsisFrom Russia to The Democratic Republic of Congo to Myanmar, Chris Stephen ponders the future of prosecuting war criminals who think themselves untouchable in this timely new book, part of Melville House FUTURES series.We are all too familiar with the horrors of war. Throughout history, rules have been laid down to govern the conduct of war, with varying success. Today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands is the world's first permanent war crimes court, but since it opened in 2002, it has jailed just 4 people. So what has gone wrong?Journalist and ex war-correspondent Chris Stephen takes a look at the colorful history of how war law was devised, asking complicated and important questions such as: What constitutes a war crime? How and when can the law step into prosecute? Today, membership of the ICC is voluntary. Of the UN’s 193 member states, 123 are in the ICC. But most of the world’s war crimes are committed by the other 70. Simply put, governments that commit war crimes don’t join the ICC – like Russia, for example.How then, do we go after war criminals? Follow the money, argues Stephen, and go after the banks and corporations that enable warlords. It worked for Al Capone, who, famously, was jailed not for his many killings, but for not paying his taxes. It was the same for Milosevic: years were spent gathering records, so judges could be shown he pulled the financial strings.Corporations and banks, span the world. Democracies and dictators both rely on them. The future of war crime courts demand they hit all the enablers, whether they wear battle fatigues or three-piece suits.
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Baraka Books Washington's Long War on Syria
Book SynopsisWhen President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The United States had waged a long war against Syria from the very moment the country's fiercely independent Arab nationalist movement—of which Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad were committed devotees—came to power in 1963. Washington sought to purge Arab nationalist influence from the Syrian state and the Arab world more broadly because it was a threat to its agenda of establishing global primacy and promoting business-friendly investment climates for US banks, investors and corporations throughout the world. Arab nationalists aspired to unify the world's 400 million Arabs into a single super-state capable of challenging United States hegemony in West Asia and North Africa and becoming a major player on the world stage free from the domination of the former colonial powers and the US. Washington had waged long wars on the leaders of the Arab nationalist movement—Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Iraq's Saddam, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, and Syria's Assads, often allying with particularly violent forms of political Islam to undermine its Arab nationalist foes. By 2011, only one pan-Arabist state remained in the region—Syria. In Washington's Long War on Syria Stephen Gowans examines the decades-long struggle between secular Arab nationalism, political Islam, and United States imperialism for control of Syria, the self-proclaimed Den of Arabism, and last secular pan-Arabist state in the region.Trade Review[O]ne has to question why [western politicians] are so intent on removing Assad . . . Stephen Gowans does a good and thorough job providing answers. Washington’s Long War on Syria not only provides a counter-narrative to the popular western version of the Syrian protests, but more importantly, a history and discussion of western intervention rarely heard in western media." —Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch"The war over Syria has been, in truth, a fight for control over the global economic and political order—a last, failing stand for a declining American empire to forestall the current shift toward a new global balance of power. Unlike so many hastily-written books on Syria that miss this point, Stephan Gowans' work will prove to be an essential primer on the Syrian conflict for years to come. A must read." —Sharmine Narwani, journalist, analyst of Mideast geopolitics"Gowans’ book is a timely and indispensable resource for those seeking to understand recent events in Syria." —Eva Bartlett, independent Canadian journalist
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Robert D. Reed Publishers INVISIBLE: Surviving the Cambodian Genocide: The
Book Synopsis"The challenge was not just to survive, but to survive without losing our humanity." ~ Mac and Simone Leng The Cambodian Genocide claimed the lives of an estimated two million people - more than one-fourth of the total Cambodian population. Under the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, cities were evacuated and the population dispersed and forced into labor camps, where scores died of starvation, malnutrition, and disease. Pol Pot targeted for extermination certain minorities, the educated, and all those who had any connection with the former regime. Cambodia was to return to the "Year Zero," a pre-history - where no hint of Western influence would exist. Because Mac Leng was a former school principal and an army intelligence officer under the Lon Nol regime, he had a double target on his back. Mac and Simone Leng survived almost unendurable conditions for three years, eight months, and twenty days. This is their heartrending story of resilience, courage, and the power of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable terror. INVISIBLE: Surviving the Cambodian Genocide is a Cambodian couple's moving, personal, and straightforward story of living through one of the major disasters of the twentieth century. Millions of the Cambodian survivors of the 1975-1979 genocide have their own heart-rending accounts of what happened to them, packed like this book with dramatic, tragic events, individually experienced but in many respects similar because of the nature, ambition, and power of the Pol Pot regime. Surprisingly few of their accounts have appeared in English. This is a valuable addition to what we know. ~ Ben Kiernan, author of H ow Pol Pot Came to Power and T he Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge , 1975-1979, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies, Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program (1994-2015), Yale University A family swept up in the Cambodian genocide describes their experiences in a matter-of-fact tone that only heightens the sense of horror. An indispensable tale of human depravity and human endurance . ~ Ambassador Roger N. Harrison, Former U.S. Ambassador to JordanTHE IMPORTANCE OF INVISIBLE : INVISIBLE is a powerful story of survival against overwhelming odds during the nightmare years of the Cambodian Genocide. Very few first-person accounts of survival of the Cambodian Genocide exist, as most educated Cambodians were exterminated. The story of the survivors is framed in an account of the context of the Cambodian Genocide - how the murderous regime of Pol Pot came to power. Horrifying details of actual conditions during the Genocide are presented. Simultaneously, the book presents an uplifting message of the importance of humanity during even the most perilous of times. Love for family is a strong theme. The book fills a gap in the literature on the Cambodian Genocide, which is not well understood by most. The book is appropriate as required reading in any university course on genocide and human rights or in high school curricula. The book is suspenseful as the reader follows the journey of the Leng family from the killing fields to freedom. (Mac Leng worked on the film, The Killing Fields, as a consultant after he moved to the United States.) The book has implicit commentary on the important role of immigrants in the United States and the follies of U.S. foreign policy during the Viet Nam War era.Trade ReviewThis is a valuable addition to what we know. -- Ben Kiernan, author of How Pol Pot Came to Power and The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979, A Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies, Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program (1994-2015), Yale UniversityA family swept up in the Cambodian genocide describes their experiences in a matter-of-fact tone that only heightens the sense of horror. An indispensable tale of human depravity and human endurance. -- Ambassador Roger N. Harrison, Former U.S.
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Rutgers University Press Reluctant Interveners: America's Failed Responses
Book Synopsis2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFeatured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Why do we allow our governments to get away with “bystanding” to genocide? How can we, when alerted to the mass slaughter of innocents, still not take a stand? Reluctant Interveners provides the most comprehensive answers yet to these confronting questions, focusing on the complex relationships between the citizenry, the media, the political elites, and institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America. Eyal Mayroz offers a sobering account of the interactions between the governing and the governed, and the dynamics which transformed moral concerns for the lives of faraway “others” into cold political calculations. Exposed are the processes that turned the promise of “never again” to a recurring reality of ever again, the role of the office of the presidency in their advancement, and the resultant image of America as seen by the rest of the world. In a time of ubiquitous social media and populist revival, a greater role for the U.S. citizenry in decision-making on responses to genocide may be in the cards. The question is, in which directions will these trends take American foreign policy?Trade Review"This serious, balanced, and compelling account of American ambivalence is sober but important reading. It could not be more timely." -- Edward C. Luck * School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University *"Genocide will not happen again if societies and governments respond properly. Sober and strong, this book focuses on the USA and its citizens and is an invitation to all to do what is possible and right." -- Andrea Bartoli * Dean, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University *"A powerful and well-researched reality check thoughtfully reminding us of the enormous amount of research on domestic politics and foreign policy that remains to be done before genocide prevention can become a functioning international norm." -- Frank Chalk * Professor of History and Research Director, MIGS, Concordia University *“Mayroz’s book helps all of us, governmental or not, American or not, to look inward to see whether we are doing the right thing, and enough of it." * World Nutrition *"“[S]tudents and scholars interested in human rights would be well advised to seek out this book. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“[A] significant contribution to the study of the United States’ relationship with genocide…methodical and comprehensive…tightly filled with significant research and findings…contributes to bridging the gap between academic scholarship and policy. [E]ssential reading for scholars, students, activists, civil society actors, elected officials, and members of nongovernmental and intergovernmental institutions." * Genocide Studies & Prevention *Interview with the book Author: Eyal Mayroz, “Reluctant Interveners: America’s Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur,” at: https://podcasts.apple.com/gh/podcast/eyal-mayroz-reluctant-interveners-americas-failed-responses/id426479249?i=1000456774261 * New Books in World Affairs podcast *Radio Adelaide interview with Eyal Mayroz * Radio Adelaide *2SER Radio interview with Eyal Mayroz * 2SER Radio *"Outstanding Academic Titles 2020: International Relations: Five International Relations titles selected from the Choice Reviews 2020 Outstanding Academic Titles list" * Choice *Table of ContentsAmerica's relationship with genocide A policy-opinion nexus: legitimating inaction on genocide? Words versus deeds in America's relationship with genocide Domestic responses to genocide: public opinion versus public behaviour America and the first genocide of the twenty-first century Determining factors in the making of the US Darfur policy conclusions
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Rutgers University Press Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics
Book SynopsisActs of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentina—a history that includes the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976–1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Although the struggle against impunity seems inevitably incomplete, Argentines have created possibilities for repair through cultural memory, yielding spaces for transformation and agency critical to personal and political recovery. Trade Review"Acts of Repair compellingly emphasizes the value of narrative and testimony, using an ethnographic approach that is fine-grained and personal, dialogic and lyrical. This intimate book creates a nuanced frame for understanding immigrants, anti-Semitism, political culture, and memory practices, in Argentina and beyond." -- Ellen Moodie * coeditor of Central America in the New Millennium: Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy *"A masterful storylistener and storyteller, Natasha Zaretsky has written a heart-opening book that navigates the liminal spaces between silence and speech, erasure and memory, healing and trauma. The voices of her interlocutors sing and cry and are unforgettable. A stunning contribution to Latin American Jewish studies, as well as a beautiful enactment of the new soul-deep ethnography of the twenty-first century, this is a book that offers hope for humanity in fraught times." -- Ruth Behar * author of Letters from Cuba and An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, and Victor Haim Per *"Acts of Repair presents a gripping account of a diversity of memorial sites and practices that emerged in Argentina in response to multilayered traumatic experiences of extreme political violence. Drawing on her ethnographic observations, in-depth personal interviews, and public testimonies, Zaretesky weaves personal voices into her insightful and sensitive study of the power of memory work to lead from political protest and demands for justice to human-rights trials and open venues for individual and collective processes of recovery. Acts of Repair will be of major interest to anyone interested in the comparative study of trauma, memory, human rights, and the intergenerational impact of genocide and terrorism." -- Yael Zerubavel * author of Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition *"Alumni Books: New titles from Dartmouth writers (November/December 2020)" round-uphttps://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/alumni-books-november-december-2020 * Dartmouth Alumni Magazine *"Drawing on anthropological work started at Princeton, Natasha Zaretsky *08 explores the everyday lives of people coping with political violence in Argentina. Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers University Press) investigates how cultures exist with societal trauma and injustice, and how these wrongs might be repaired." * Princeton Alumni Weekly *"New Books Network: New Books in Genocide Studies" interview with Natasha Zaretsky * New Books Network: New Books in Genocide Studies *"At the heart of Acts of Repair are the Argentine people who let Zaretsky into their lives and told her their stories. Despite the trauma that they have endured, they have devoted their lives to sharing their experiences, out of a profound sense of obligation to their fellow survivors, victims, and future generations of Argentines." * Global Americans *"Acts of Repair offers a broader canvas by situating the narrative within the larger history of European immigration to Argentina. That history, as illustrated in the book, created a national setting unlike any other in the world, as twentieth-century Argentina became a refuge for Jews fleeing the rise of Nazism and the aftermath of the Holocaust, as well as for Nazi officials, such as Adolf Eichmann, fleeing prosecution in Europe." -- Omar G. Encarnacion * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsContents Chronology Introduction: Topographies of Violence 1 El Vacío: Trauma, Narrative, and the Boundaries of Coherence 2 Dialogic Memory and the Uneven Terrain of Justice 3 Disruption and Agency in the Public Sphere 4 Sites of Memory, Erasure, and Belonging 5 Nunca Más and the Intersections of Genocide, Loss, and Survival 6 On the Limits of Witnessing, On the Boundaries of Time Conclusion: The Liminality of Repair Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide
Book SynopsisWhy do people participate in genocide? The Complexity of Evil responds to this fundamental question by drawing on political science, sociology, criminology, anthropology, social psychology, and history to develop a model which can explain perpetration across various different cases. Focusing in particular on the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, The Complexity of Evil model draws on, systematically sorts, and causally orders a wealth of scholarly literature and supplements it with original field research data from interviews with former members of the Khmer Rouge. The model is systematic and abstract, as well as empirically grounded, providing a tool for understanding the micro-foundations of various cases of genocide. Ultimately this model highlights that the motivations for perpetrating genocide are both complex in their diversity and banal in their ordinariness and mundanity.Download the open access ebook here.Trade Review“Confronting the most challenging moral and historical questions in our field, The Complexity of Evil is exceptionally insightful and wise. Based upon extensive research and deep thought, this book is also remarkably accessible. Williams never loses sight of the human implications of his study, and has made a pathbreaking contribution.” -- John Cox * author of To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century *"The Complexity of Evil is a thorough and systematic exploration of genocide perpetration that that marries conceptual precision with a nuanced exploration of the Cambodian Genocide and other case studies. In perhaps his greatest contribution, Williams avoids reproducing conventional wisdom by thoughtfully exploring the complexities of perpetrator motivations in each context." -- Kjell Anderson * author of Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account *"This timely book—grounded in extensive qualitative fieldwork in Cambodia and comparison with the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwandan genocide—offers rich insights for the fields of perpetrator studies and genocide studies. Williams’s complexity of evil model helps us better understand the personal circumstances through which people become perpetrators, while acknowledging the potential for them to simultaneously be victims, bystanders, rescuers, and so on." -- Erin Jessee * author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda: The Politics of History *“Confronting the most challenging moral and historical questions in our field, The Complexity of Evil is exceptionally insightful and wise. Based upon extensive research and deep thought, this book is also remarkably accessible. Williams never loses sight of the human implications of his study, and has made a pathbreaking contribution.” -- John Cox * author of To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century *"The Complexity of Evil is a thorough and systematic exploration of genocide perpetration that that marries conceptual precision with a nuanced exploration of the Cambodian Genocide and other case studies. In perhaps his greatest contribution, Williams avoids reproducing conventional wisdom by thoughtfully exploring the complexities of perpetrator motivations in each context." -- Kjell Anderson * author of Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account *"This timely book—grounded in extensive qualitative fieldwork in Cambodia and comparison with the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwandan genocide—offers rich insights for the fields of perpetrator studies and genocide studies. Williams’s complexity of evil model helps us better understand the personal circumstances through which people become perpetrators, while acknowledging the potential for them to simultaneously be victims, bystanders, rescuers, and so on." -- Erin Jessee * author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda: The Politics of History *Table of ContentsContents List of Abbreviations Introduction Vignette 1 Chandara: a fearful volunteer enters the tiger zone 1 The complexity of evil – introducing the model Vignette 2 Sokong: a coerced killer with a conscience 2 Motivations Vignette 3 Sokphary: a female unit leader with a sense of responsibility for her subordinates 3 Facilitative factors Vignette 4 Sopheak: an interrogator searching to unearth enemy strings 4 Contextual conditions Vignette 5 Sokha: a child guard the regime turned on 5 Diversity, complexity, scope – discussing the model and its empirical application Vignette 6 Ramy: a garment worker participating in the evacuation of Phnom Penh Conclusion Appendix: List of interviewees Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Korean Comfort Women : Military Brothels,
Book SynopsisArguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these women died, unable to survive the ordeal. Those survivors who came back home kept silent about their brutal experiences for about fifty years. In the late 1980s, the women’s movement in South Korea helped start the redress movement for the victims, encouraging many survivors to come forward to tell what happened to them. With these testimonies, the redress movement gained strong support from the UN, the United States, and other Western countries. Korean “Comfort Women” synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations, and provides new findings about the issues “comfort women” faced for an English-language audience. It also examines the transnational redress movement, revealing that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the women’s human rights issue with diplomacy and economic power.Trade Review"This book provides the most complete account yet of the historical situation of Korean 'comfort women' and of current efforts to seek redress for the survivors. Drawing upon a vast trove of first-person evidence and displaying a rigorous commitment to factual evidence, the author creates an invaluable record of past war crimes and present-day activism." — Margaret D. Stetz, author of Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II "Korean “Comfort Women” comprehensively clarifies the role of international movements with historical accuracy and a sincere commitment to holding Japan responsible for its actions. Moreover, this book provides a detailed description of the histories and politics of the past and present as it asks readers how redress of the comfort women issue can be achieved from the perspectives of politics and justice."— MobilizationTable of ContentsAbbreviations Chronology Introduction: Background Information about Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and the Redress Movement for the Victims 1 Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks 2 Enough Information, but the Issue Was Buried for Half a Century 3 The Emergence of the “Comfort Women” Issue and Victims’ Breaking Silence 4 General Information about the “Comfort Women” System 5 Forced Mobilization of “Comfort Women” 6 Payments of Fees and Affectionate Relationships 7 Sexual Exploitation, Violence, and Threats at “Comfort Stations” 8 The Perils of Korean “Comfort Women’s” Homecoming Trips 9 Korean “Comfort Women’s” Lives in Korea and China 10 Progress of the Redress Movement in Korea 11 Divided Responses to the Redress Movement in Japan 12 Responses to the Redress Movement in the United States Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide
Book SynopsisBeginning with the negotiations that concluded with the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on December 9, 1948, and extending to the present day, the United States, Soviet Union/Russia, China, United Kingdom, and France have put forth great effort to ensure that they will not be implicated in the crime of genocide. If this were to fail, they have also ensured that holding any of them accountable for genocide will be practically impossible. By situating genocide prevention in a system of territorial jurisdiction; by excluding protection for political groups and acts constituting cultural genocide from the Genocide Convention; by controlling when genocide is meaningfully named at the Security Council; and by pointing the responsibility to protect in directions away from any of the P-5, they have achieved what can only be described as practical impunity for genocide. The Politics of Genocide is the first book to explicitly demonstrate how the permanent member nations have exploited the Genocide Convention to isolate themselves from the reach of the law, marking them as "outlaw states."Trade Review"In The Politics of Genocide, Jeffrey S. Bachman conducts an unsparing analysis of the United Nations (UN) Genocide Convention’s formulation in 1947-48 and subsequent selective application by the permanent members of the UN Security Council. Decrying the orchestrated 'culture of impunity for genocide,' this book is a necessary corrective to the view that the Genocide Convention has humanized world politics." -- Dirk Moses * author of The Problems of Genocide *A rigorous and revisionist study of how framings of genocide, and applications of the relevant international law, granted effective impunity to the world's most powerful state actors -- and still do. Bachman's book is readable and accessible. It serves as an excellent complement and counterweight to standard treatments of this vital subject. -- Adam Jones * author of Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Genocide and State Impunity 1. Territorializing Prevention of Genocide 2. Redefining the Crime of Genocide for Reasons of State 3. The ICJ as Enabler of State Impunity for Genocide 4. The P-5 and Discretionary Non-Application of the Genocide Convention 5. The Responsibility to Protect and P-5 Impunity Conclusion: The Persistent Outlaw, Perpetual Impunity, and the Field of Genocide StudiesAcknowledgments NotesBibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American
Book SynopsisHuman Rights at Risk brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars to analyze the policy challenges of human rights protection in the twenty-first century. The volume is organized based on three overarching themes that highlight the challenges and risks in international human rights: international institutions and global governance of human rights; thematic blind spots in human rights protection; and the human rights challenges of the United States as a global and domestic actor amidst the contemporary global shifts to authoritarianism and illiberal populism. One of the very few books that offer new perspectives that envision the future of transnational human rights norms and human dignity from a multidisciplinary perspective, Human Rights at Risk comprehensively examines the causes and consequences of the challenges faced by international human rights. Scholars, students, and policy practitioners who are interested in the challenges and reform prospects of the international human rights regime, United States foreign policy, and international institutions will find this multidisciplinary volume an invaluable guide to the state of global politics in the twenty-first century. Trade Review"Human Rights at Risk provides a much-needed, thoughtful, and forward-looking assessment of human rights at a critical moment. The authors are realistic about challenges from super powers and authoritarians alike. Yet they also see hope in grassroots movements far from power centers in Geneva and New York that use human rights to work for transformational change." -- Robin Kirk * author of Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World *"A tour de force of the challenges and contradictions facing the current human rights movement. By problematizing the universal acceptance of individual human rights norms, the authors have allowed for a major leap in our understanding of global abuses. The diversity of author backgrounds, disciplines, and approaches adds to the validity of their argument and should be the gold standard for all human rights and international relations scholarship." -- Amanda Murdie * editor in chief of International Studies Review *"Human Rights at Risk is also a set of essays on humanity at risk. Contributors demonstrate both how the application of human rights, as well as their repression, are central to the state we are in. Whether providing theoretical or empirical accounts, there are gems in this volume that should grab the attention of international lawyers." -- Margot E. Salomon * co-author of The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy *"This volume highlights how the concept of human rights is broadened, how this issue is recognized across the world, but also how vulnerable the regime is to threats from populism and US isolationism. By addressing human rights from the different viewpoints of international institutions, states, and victims, it provides a unique compelling, informative, and though-provoking resource for readers interested in international relations and current affairs." -- Joakim Kreutz * co-editor of Debating the East Asian Peace: What it is. How it Came About. Will it Last? *"Human Rights at Risk provides a much-needed, thoughtful, and forward-looking assessment of human rights at a critical moment. The authors are realistic about challenges from super powers and authoritarians alike. Yet they also see hope in grassroots movements far from power centers in Geneva and New York that use human rights to work for transformational change." -- Robin Kirk * author of Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World *"A tour de force of the challenges and contradictions facing the current human rights movement. By problematizing the universal acceptance of individual human rights norms, the authors have allowed for a major leap in our understanding of global abuses. The diversity of author backgrounds, disciplines, and approaches adds to the validity of their argument and should be the gold standard for all human rights and international relations scholarship." -- Amanda Murdie * editor in chief of International Studies Review *"Human Rights at Risk is also a set of essays on humanity at risk. Contributors demonstrate both how the application of human rights, as well as their repression, are central to the state we are in. Whether providing theoretical or empirical accounts, there are gems in this volume that should grab the attention of international lawyers." -- Margot E. Salomon * co-author of The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy *"This volume highlights how the concept of human rights is broadened, how this issue is recognized across the world, but also how vulnerable the regime is to threats from populism and US isolationism. By addressing human rights from the different viewpoints of international institutions, states, and victims, it provides a unique compelling, informative, and though-provoking resource for readers interested in international relations and current affairs." -- Joakim Kreutz * co-editor of Debating the East Asian Peace: What it is. How it Came About. Will it Last? *Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Global Human Rights Regime: Risks and Contestations Chapter 2: Transparency, Accountability, and Legitimacy within the UN Universal Periodic Review Chapter 3: After Obama: The African Group at the UN Human Rights Council Chapter 4: Consensus and Human Rights Politics: The Case of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Chapter 5: Skewed Vision: Human Rights in War through the Eyes in Peace Chapter 6: Who Are the Victims of Crimes Against Cultural Heritage? Chapter 7: Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Genocide: The War on Drugs in the Philippines Chapter 8: Human Rights at Risk in the Era of Trump and American Decline Chapter 9: The Tyranny of Exceptionalism: How the United States Rejects Universal Human Rights Chapter 10: Natural Law and the Future of Human Rights Chapter 11: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Thoughts on Global Human Rights in the 21st Century Chapter 12: Risks and Emancipatory Rights Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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Classiques Garnier Cahiers de Memoire, Kigali, 2014
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Harrassowitz Body and Frames of War in New Kingdom Egypt:
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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP The Khmer Rouge Trials in Context
Book SynopsisWhen a tribunal was formed in 2006 to address the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge, many expected the Cambodian model for victim empowerment to open a new path for international judiciary initiatives. However, the local reality of the justice intervention has been more complicated. Rather than joining the success-or-failure debate about the court, this volume pays special attention to how the trials are perceived locally. Inclinations in institutional design, favored or excluded political agendas, mismatched values between experts and locals, and unexpected local meaning-making all flow into the current context in Cambodia. Through critical analysis by authors with on-the-ground experience, this collection—the first to address the tribunal through a sociological framework—provides insight into the tension between the global justice regime and local societal context.
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