Description
Book SynopsisHighlights the ways in which genocide and enforced disappearances are intertwined - each centering on human rights violations. This book draws on insight and expertise of human rights advocates worldwide and each chapter is informed by in-depth study of a given country.
Trade Review“By documenting the impact of victims who have turned activists and formed effective grassroots movements with global impact,
Book of the Disappeared provides a roadmap for the reader who wants to become familiar with global movements for justice that had their roots in communities where these atrocities occurred. Any person interested in human rights, international justice, the voice of the silenced, etc. will be interested to read this book.” —Avideh Shashaani, President, Fund for the Future of our Children
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Artwork
- Introduction
- JENNIFER HEATH and ASRAF ZAHEDI
- Interlude: Index of the Disappeared
- CHITRA GANESH and MARIAM GHANI
- 1 ─ Latin America's Contributions to the Development of Institutional Responses to Enforced Disappearances
- ARIEL E. DULITZKY
- 2 ─ The Impact of Enforced Disappearance on Women
- AMRITA KAPUR
- Interlude: Between Two Rivers
- SAMA ALSHAIBI
- 3 ─ Iraq: Enforced Disappearance as a Tool of War
- DIRK ADRIAENSENS
- 4 ─ Extraordinary Rendition: A Human Rights Analysis
- DAVID WEISSBRODT
- Interlude: Abu Ghraib
- NANCY MARON
- 5 ─ Lives in Limbo: Afghanistan’s Epidemic of Disappearances
- DALAS MAZOORI and STEFAN SCHMITT
- 6 ─ Vanishing Nation: Enforced Disappearances in Syria
- SARETA ASHRAPH and NICOLETTE WALDMAN
- Interlude: Do Not Forget Us: La Tanssana
- HELEN ZUGHAIB
- 7 ─ Politics of Silence and Denial: 1988 Enforced Disappearances and Executions in Iran
- ASHRAF ZAHEDI
- Interlude: The Eyes
- YASSI GOLSHANI
- 8 ─ The Legacy of Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- EDINA BEĆIREVIĆ and MAJDA HALIOVIĆ
- 9 ─ Genocide of the Rohingya
- AKILA RADHAKEISHNAN and ELENA SARVER
- Interlude: The Elephant and the Pond of Blood
- LEANG SECKON
- 10 ─ The Khmer Rouge Bureaucrats: Counting the Missing
- JAMES A. TYNER
- Interlude: Lynch Fragments
- MELVIN EDWARDS
- 11 ─ Our Resilient Bodies: The Role of Forensic Science and Medicine in Restoring the Disappeared to History
- SOREN BLAU
- Interlude: In Between/Underneath (Entremedio/Por Debajo)
- JONATHAN HERRERA SOTO
- 12 ─ Retributive or Restorative Justice: Gacaca Courts’ Contribution to Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in poet-Genocide Rwanda
- HILMI ZAWATI
- 13 ─ MIA: Disappearing Political Analysis in Transnational Justice
- VASUKI NESIAH
- Interlude: Stolen
- MORGAN C. PAGE
- 14 ─ Story as Portal: Healing, Regeneration, and Possibility After Genocide
- KAYHAN IRANI
- 15 ─ The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers
- ERVIN STAUB
- About the Contributors
- Index
