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Torture
About: Torture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8173 publications have been published within this topic receiving 109895 citations.
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01 Dec 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, women in the wars of/on/on Terror, or re-sexing the Wars of /on Terror 3. Global Capital and Torture, or Anti-democratic Wars 4. Racial Diversity and the Crisis of Neoliberalism 5. Feminisms in and against War
Abstract: 1. War as Gender in Another Form 2. Women in the Wars of/on Terror, or Re-sexing the Wars of/on Terror 3. Global Capital and Torture, or Anti-democratic Wars 4. Racial Diversity and the Crisis of Neoliberalism 5. Feminisms in and against War
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TL;DR: Most civilians in zones of conflict witness war-related traumatic events such as shootings, killings, rape, and loss of family members, and the extent of psychosocial problems that results from this mass exposure to traumatic events may ultimately threaten the prospects for long-term stability in society.
103 citations
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17 Feb 2014
TL;DR: The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. "Reclaiming American Virtue" situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its tumultuous aftermath. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans on the right and the left alike looked outward for ways to restore America's moral leadership.Conservatives took up the language of Soviet dissidents to resuscitate a Cold War narrative that pitted a virtuous United States against the evils of communism. Liberals sought moral cleansing by dissociating the United States from foreign malefactors, spotlighting abuses such as torture in Chile, South Korea, and other right-wing allies. When Jimmy Carter in 1977 made human rights a central tenet of American foreign policy, his administration struggled to reconcile these conflicting visions.Yet liberals and conservatives both saw human rights as a way of moving from guilt to pride. Less a critique of American power than a rehabilitation of it, human rights functioned for Americans as a sleight of hand that occluded from view much of America's recent past and confined the lessons of Vietnam to narrow parameters. It would be a small step from world's judge to world's policeman, and American intervention in the name of human rights would be a cause both liberals and conservatives could embrace.
102 citations
TL;DR: Little evidence was available with regard to the effect on treatment outcomes of the amount, type, or length of treatment, the influence of patient characteristics, maintenance of treatment effects, and treatment outcomes other than psychiatric symptomatology.
Abstract: In this paper we review research evidence on psychosocial interventions for adult survivors of torture and trauma. We identified 40 studies from 1980 to 2010 that investigated interventions for adult survivors of torture and trauma. Population subtypes include resettled refugees, asylum seekers, displaced persons, and persons resident in their country of origin. Settings include specialized services for torture and trauma, specialized tertiary referral clinics, community settings, university settings, as well as psychiatric and multidisciplinary mental health services. Interventions were delivered as individual or group treatments and lasted from a single session to 19 years duration. The studies employed randomized controlled trials, nonrandomized comparison studies and single cohort follow-up studies. In all, 36 of the 40 studies (90%) demonstrated significant improvements on at least one outcome indicator after an intervention. Most studies (60%) included participants who had high levels of posttraumatic stress symptomatology. Improvements in symptoms of posttraumatic stress, depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms were found following a range of interventions. Little evidence was available with regard to the effect on treatment outcomes of the amount, type, or length of treatment, the influence of patient characteristics, maintenance of treatment effects, and treatment outcomes other than psychiatric symptomatology. The review highlights the need for more carefully designed research that addresses the shortcomings of current studies and that integrates the experience of expert practitioners.
102 citations
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a philosophy for public service based on thinking, reason, and truth, which they call Thinking, Reason, and Truth: Philosophy for Public Service.
Abstract: AcknowledgementsIntroduction PART I: Thinking, Reason, and Truth: Philosophy for Public Service 1. Rethinking Reason after September 11 2. Public Administration and the Question of Torture 3. Thinking, Judging, and Public Life PART II: Two Models of Governance 4. There's No Place Like Homeland: Security in Dark Times 5. The Social Reality of Public Space 6. Governance from Ground Up PART III: Philosophy for Practice 7. Pragmatism in Public Service 8. Public Service Ethics in Dark Times Index
101 citations