Innocence and Victimhood

Elissa Helms

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• The 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina following the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia became notorious for "ethnic cleansing" and mass rapes targeti... Lees meer

From War to Genocide

André Guichaoua

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• In April 1994 Rwanda exploded in violence, with political, social, and economic divisions most visible along ethnic lines of the Hutu and Tutsi factio... Lees meer

Civil Obedience

Michael Lazzara

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• Since the fall of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990, Chilean society has shied away from the subject of civilian complicity, preferring ... Lees meer

Inside Rwanda's /Gacaca/ Courts

Bert Ingelaere

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The gover... Lees meer

Prisoner of Pinochet

Sergio Bitar

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• September 11, 1973: Chilean military forces under General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the elected government of President Salvador Allende, bombing the... Lees meer

Torture and Impunity

Alfred W McCoy

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United Sta... Lees meer

Archiving the Unspeakable

Michelle Caswell

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years in ... Lees meer

Elusive Justice

Donny Meertens

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• Fifty years of violence perpetrated by guerrillas, paramilitaries, and official armed forces in Colombia displaced more than six million people. In 20... Lees meer

The Wars inside Chile's Barracks

Leith Passmore

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370,000 young men-mostly from impoverished backgrounds-were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto Pino... Lees meer

South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left

Jessica Stites Mor

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• Transnational solidarity movements often play an important role in reshaping structures of global power. However, there remains a significant gap in t... Lees meer

The Social Origins of Human Rights

Luis Van Isschot

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• Human rights activism is often associated with international organizations that try to affect the behavior of abusive states around the globe. In Barr... Lees meer

From War to Genocide

André Guichaoua

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• In April 1994 Rwanda exploded in violence, with political, social, and economic divisions most visible along ethnic lines of the Hutu and Tutsi factio... Lees meer

Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling

Nancy J Gates-Madsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• Argentina's repressive 1976-83 dictatorship, during which an estimated thirty thousand people were "disappeared," prompted the postauthoritarian admin... Lees meer

Bread, Justice, and Liberty

Alison Bruey

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• In Santiago's urban shantytowns, a searing history of poverty and Chilean state violence have prompted grassroots resistance movements among the poor ... Lees meer

Remaking Rwanda

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country's new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashio... Lees meer

Amending the Past

Alexander Karn

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• During the 1990s and early 2000s in Europe, more than fifty historical commissions were created to confront, discuss, and document the genocide of the... Lees meer

Historical Justice and Memory

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• Historical Justice and Memory highlights the global movement for historical justice-acknowledging and redressing historic wrongs-as one of the most si... Lees meer

Conflicted Memory

Cynthia E Milton

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• What happens when concepts of "truth," "memory," and "human rights" are taken up and adapted by former perpetrators of violence? Peru has moved from t... Lees meer

After Genocide

Nicole Fox

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• In the wake of unthinkable atrocities, it is reasonable to ask how any population can move on from the experience of genocide. Simply remembering the ... Lees meer

Buried Histories

John Roosa

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• In 1965-66, army-organized massacres claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of supporters of the Communist Party of Indonesia. Very few of these a... Lees meer

Beyond Displacement

Molly Todd

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• For more than sixty years, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans personified the romantic, mythic West that Americans cherished. Part narrative, part reference, t... Lees meer

Civil Obedience

Michael Lazzara

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• Since the fall of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990, Chilean society has shied away from the subject of civilian complicity, preferring ... Lees meer

The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention

Anton Weiss-Wendt

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• After the staggering horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, the United Nations resolved to prevent and punish the crime of genocide throughout the... Lees meer

Court of Remorse

Thierry Cruvellier

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Human Rights
• In his first book of Satires , written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and dominatio... Lees meer