Violence all around
by Sifton, John
"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.
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- Full title :Violence all around / John Sifton.
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"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.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 323 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674057692, 0674057694
- oclc:ocn892514429
- LC Classification:JC571
- Dewey Decimal:303.6
Table of Contents
Preface -- Deeds -- The desert of the real -- Continent and conquest -- Violence and distance -- The limits of remote violence -- Words -- The theater of force -- Defining violence -- Torture -- The violence of nonviolence -- Outrage -- Terror as justice -- Change -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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