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| Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer | Report Error | | Author: Michael Ratner, Jennie Green, Barbara Olshansky | | Publication Date: April 2003 | | Publisher: Seven Stories Press | | Description: 'Three legal scholars from the Center for Constitutional Rights argue persuasively, in this concise and timely anti-war primer, that the looming war against Iraq is both unnecessary for national security, and illegal. Against War with Iraq contains the core facts and analysis needed to understand the issues; showing that there is little evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the inspections are adequate, and that current U.S. foreign policy is contrary to international law.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair | Report Error | | Author: Martha Minow, Nancy L. Rosenblum | | Publication Date: January 2003 | | Publisher: Princeton Univ Press | | Description: 'Violence so often begets violence. Victims respond with revenge only to inspire seemingly endless cycles of retaliation. Conflicts between nations, between ethnic groups, between strangers, and between family members differ in so many ways and yet often share this dynamic. In this powerful and timely book Martha Minow and others ask: What explains these cycles and what can break them? What lessons can we draw from one form of violence that might be relevant to others? Can legal responses to violence provide accountability but avoid escalating vengeance? If so, what kinds of legal institutions and practices can make a difference? What kinds risk failure?
Breaking the Cycles of Hatred represents a unique blend of political and legal theory, one that focuses on the double-edged role of memory in fueling cycles of hatred and maintaining justice and personal integrity. Its centerpiece comprises three penetrating essays by Minow. She argues that innovative legal institutions and practices, such as truth commissions and civil damage actions against groups that sponsor hate, often work better than more conventional criminal proceedings and sanctions. Minow also calls for more sustained attention to the underlying dynamics of violence, the connections between intergroup and intrafamily violence, and the wide range of possible responses to violence beyond criminalization.
A vibrant set of freestanding responses from experts in political theory, psychology, history, and law examine past and potential avenues for breaking cycles of violence and for deepening our capacity to avoid becoming what we hate. The topics include hate crimes and hate-crimes legislation, child sexual abuse and the statute of limitations, and the American kidnapping and internment of Japanese Latin Americans during World War II.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/17/2003 |
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| Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism | Report Error | | Author: Derrick A. Bell | | Publication Date: August 1993 | | Publisher: Basic Books | | Description: 'Imagine America on the first day of the 21st century. At the break of dawn, a thousand space ships descend from the sky, landing on the shores of the East Coast, bearing treasures of gold, safe nuclear power and detoxifying agents that could pay all debts and save the earth's environment. In exchange for these goods, guaranteed to rescue America from the excesses of its past, the Space Traders want just one thing -- to take all African Americans back to their home star. What would our leaders do? White Americans were once capable of rationalizing Black slavery; would they be capable of justifying the trade of all African Americans to space, to improve their own lot on earth? The situation is a chilling fantasy. But for Derrick Bell, the prominent civil rights activist and former Harvard Law School Professor, the danger is very real. In Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism has always been an integral, permanent and indestructible component of American society.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy, and Humanitarian Crises | Report Error | | Author: Robert I. Rotberg (Editor), Thomas G. Weiss (Editor) | | Publication Date: May 1996 | | Publisher: The Brookings Institution | | Description: 'Contributors from the fields of disaster relief, journalism, government policymaking, and academia look at the influence of media attention in forming policies to resolve ethnic and religious conflicts and humanitarians crises, arguing that the media and humanitarians can collaborate to alter the attitudes of the public and of policymakers.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor | Report Error | | Author: Paul Farmer (Author) | | Publication Date: April 2003 | | Publisher: University of California Press | | Description: 'Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other.
Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/17/2003 |
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| The Authority of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the UN Charter - Legal Limits and the Role of the International Court of Justice | Report Error | | Author: David Schweigman | | Publication Date: July 2001 | | Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers | | Description: 'This volume discusses the legal limits to the authority of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. The interest in this topic regained importance when the Security Council started to play an increasingly active role after a period of dormancy between 1945 and 1990. The work describes various approaches to Charter interpretation, provides an overview of the Council's powers under the Charter and surveys the Council's recent practice with regard to the maintenance of international peace and security.
Subsequently the sources and contents of the limits to the Council's authority are analyzed. This is followed by an analysis of the role of the International Court of Justice, which includes an overview of the main obstacles to, and possibilities of, judicial review by the Court of Council decisions taken under Chapter VII. Finally, the work discusses recent proposals to enhance the Council's legitimacy.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices | Report Error | | Author: Elazar Barkan | | Publication Date: December 2001 | | Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Press | | Description: 'Since the end of World War II, the victims of historical injustices and crimes against humanity have increasingly turned to restitution, financial and otherwise, as a means of remedying past suffering. In The Guilt of Nations, Elazar Barkan offers a sweeping look at the idea of restitution and its impact on the concept of human rights and the practice of both national and international politics. Through in-depth explorations of reparation demands for a wide variety of past wrongs—the Holocaust; Japanese enslavement of 'comfort women' in Korea and the Philippines; the internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor; German art in Russian museums and Nazi gold in Swiss banks; the oppression of indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. mainland, and Hawaii; and the enduring legacy of slavery and institutional racism among African Americans—Barkan confronts the difficulties in determining victims and assigning blame in the aftermath of such events, understanding what might justly be restored through restitutions, and assessing how these morally and politically charged acknowledgments of guilt can redefine national histories and identities.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/17/2003 |
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| Truth v. Justice | Report Error | | Author: Robert I. Rotberg (Editor), Dennis Thompson (Editor) | | Publication Date: September 2000 | | Publisher: Princeton Univ Press | | Description: 'The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of support and success. To many, they are the best--or only--way to achieve a full accounting of crimes committed against fellow citizens and to prevent future conflict. Others question whether a restorative justice that sets the guilty free, that cleanses society by words alone, can deter future abuses and allow victims and their families to heal. Here, leading philosophers, lawyers, social scientists, and activists representing several perspectives look at the process of truth commissioning in general and in post-apartheid South Africa. They ask whether the truth commission, as a method of seeking justice after conflict, is fair, moral, and effective in bringing about reconciliation.
The authors weigh the virtues and failings of truth commissions, especially the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in their attempt to provide restorative rather than retributive justice. They examine, among other issues, the use of reparations as social policy and the granting of amnesty in exchange for testimony. Most of the contributors praise South Africa's decision to trade due process for the kinds of truth that permit closure. But they are skeptical that such revelations produce reconciliation, particularly in societies that remain divided after a compromise peace with no single victor, as in El Salvador. Ultimately, though, they find the truth commission to be a worthy if imperfect instrument for societies seeking to say 'never again' with confidence. At a time when truth commissions have been proposed for Bosnia, Kosovo, Cyprus, East Timor, Cambodia, Nigeria, Palestine, and elsewhere, the authors' conclusion that restorative justice provides positive gains could not be more important.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/17/2003 |
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