The dissertation deploys three distinct studies which examine the extent to which there is consensus, conflict, and confusion in court responses to torture in international criminal law contexts. I use an innovative quantitative method, the factorial survey, to map the "equation…
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Until recently, historical or theoretical perspectives have dominated discussions of violence in the Algerian context. The aim of this analysis is to build on previously completed studies to offer a new perspective. Specifically, this examination demonstrates how literary texts,…
The thesis of this dissertation is that the doctrine of justification plays a necessary and significant role for Karl Barth in the development of his political theology, particular during the years of 1938 to 1946. The starting point for this thesis is Barth's 1938 essay, "Churc…
The focus of this dissertation is a social and cultural theoretical analysis of the empirical data regarding the prison abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by American forces. I provide the following: an examination of the photographs of abuse that were leaked to th…
Research and theory on organizational crime and deviance suggest organizational offending includes aspects of the environment, organizational characteristics (such as tasks, structure, and processes), and cognition, and is systematically produced by the combination of these thre…
The Dinka notion of cieng embodies sociocentric ideas, differentiating the good of the group from the good of the individual. Cieng has multivalent meanings among the Dinka Ciec that are expanded beyond that described among the Nuer. Within Dinka Ciec society, expressions of thi…
This dissertation is guided by three questions: Why did the Abu Ghraib photographs fail to generate widespread opposition to the Iraq War among U.S. citizens? How did U.S. political leaders, news media, and entertainment media rhetorically manage the impact of the violence at Ab…
This dissertation aims to refine our understanding of anti-torture policies, by exploring globally circulating programs, strategies and policies deployed against torture and their configuration in Turkey. It argues that, since the end of the WW2, three distinct anti-torture stra…
The absence of an international provision, governing State immunity in civil cases based on the extra-territorial torture, has made the issue a disputed area in the law of State immunity. In recent years, national courts mostly ruled in favor of State immunity and denied to hear…
The nature of torture presupposes and negates the human capacity to imagine the suffering of the other. It demands that the victim be placed outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy. Torture cannot be defined like intellectual property with exclusive rights to intang…
This thesis concerns the struggles over the production of the truth of state violence in Turkey in the three decades following the infamous 1980 military coup. Specifically, it focuses on cases of torture and enforced disappearance, two forms of violence which the state not only…
This dissertation studies the consistent and systematic official Ottoman policy to legally ban torture that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. I explore mainly why the practice of torture was legally banned and how this policy was implemented from the mid-nineteenth up until…
In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, the fear of apocalyptic terrorism has caused many Americans and academics worldwide to reexamine previously held beliefs on the morality and suitability of torture as a means of ensuring public safety. While much of the ensuing deb…
This study examines the phenomenon of abusive violence (AV) in the context of the American Post-9/11 Counter-terrorism and Counter-insurgency campaigns. Previous research into atrocities by states and their agents has largely come from examinations of totalitarian regimes with w…
The justice system needs to be updated to incorporate research that explains the psychology of predatory exploitation and factors that can help to identify it when it occurs. Too often, people argue that judgments about undue influence constitute a “slippery slope,” or that “Peo…
I question how the surviving prisoners and artifacts of the War on Terror challenge our perceptions of truth, the body, human rights, and the War on Terror at large. Through an understanding of how legal jargon is manipulated to fit into narratives of post 9/11 conflict, I debat…
The phrase “Americans don’t torture” has never been true, but uttering it is a specific political act. This study integrates institutional, legal, cultural, religious, and military histories in order to more fully analyze the expansion of American executive power since WWII, and…
The objective of this dissertation is to examine the mutually constitutive relationship between historiography, collective memory, and cultural narratives in the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) in present-day France and Algeria. Taking the turn of …