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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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27 Feb 1996
TL;DR: An account of one journalist's experience from 1992-93 of the conflict in Bosnia, this work is an attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming questions that are provoked by witnessing the destruction of a nation as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: An account of one journalist's experience from 1992-93 of the conflict in Bosnia, this work is an attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming questions that are provoked by witnessing the destruction of a nation. It explores the universal nature of war and unravelling of a once stable society, uncovering stories of rape, torture and death as well as the acts that assert humanity in the face of such devastation.
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TL;DR: The authors explores the ethics of using such imagery for projects that seek to resist or oppose war and torture, and suggests alternative ways of understanding and responding to bodies in pain. But, in the context of the Cartesian subject, this access is simultaneously impossible and disjoint between the body that experiences pain and the one who observes this body through the technologies of visual culture.
Abstract: Images of the body in pain are the primary medium through which we come to know war, torture and other pain-producing activities. The Cartesian paradigm of subjectivity suggests that pain is an interior event that can only be imperfectly expressed through language or visuality. This creates a significant disjuncture between the body that experiences pain and the one who observes this body through the technologies of visual culture. The imperative to make pain visible is driven by the desire to access the pain of the other; but, in the context of the Cartesian subject, this access is simultaneously impossible. This article explores the ethics of using such imagery for projects that seek to resist or oppose war and torture, and suggests alternative ways of understanding and responding to bodies in pain.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of ideal-point estimation and propensity score matching is used to estimate the probabilities of treaty commitment and use them to test hypotheses, and the results provide significant new findings regarding the effects of these important agreements.
Abstract: The effects of international institutions on state behavior make up a key research agenda in international-relations scholarship. Because states self-select into treaties, we cannot infer that these commitments have causal effects unless we address this selection effect. I explain the significant limitations of the methods used thus far to overcome this problem and argue that a more effective approach must take into account states' treaty preferences. I describe a novel combination of ideal-point estimation and propensity-score matching that can estimate the probabilities of treaty commitment and use them to test hypotheses. I use this procedure to test the effects of three key international human-rights treaties. My results provide significant new findings regarding the effects of these important agreements. I show that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women has significantly improved respect for women's rights, but that the Convention against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights have not had significant effects on human rights.
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: TAKEOVER reveals the machinations behind the headlines and lays bare a hidden agenda three decades in the making, one that links warrantless wiretapping and Bush's judicial nominees, torture and Cheney's energy task force, the faith-based initiative and the imprisonment of citizens without trial.
Abstract: In 1789, the Founders devised a system of checks and balances to keep kingly powers out of the hands of presidents. But in the 1970s and 80s, a faction of Republicans, outraged by the weakening of the presidency after Watergate and Vietnam, abandoned the traditional conservative suspicion of concentrated government power. These men hatched a plot that would allow the White House to wield enormous powers, operating behind a veil of secrecy and unchecked by Congress or the courts.Today's administration is bringing this project to fruition. TAKEOVER reveals the machinations behind the headlines and lays bare a hidden agenda three decades in the making, one that links warrantless wiretapping and Bush's judicial nominees, torture and Cheney's energy task force, the faith-based initiative and the imprisonment of citizens without trial. It tells the story of how a group of true believers, led by Cheney, set out to establish near-monarchical executive powers that, in the words of one conservative critic, 'will lie around like a loaded weapon' for any future president.
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07 Dec 1998
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the history of the Church in Chile and the Church as a Church as Russia, and present a hierarchy of planes for separating the body of Christ from the Church.
Abstract: Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Torture and Disappearance as an Ecclesiological Problem:. 1. Torture as Liturgy. 2. Torture and Fragmentation. 3. The Striptease of Power. 4. Habeas Corpus. Conclusion. Part II: The Church Learns How to be Oppressed:. 5. Christians for Socialism. 6."Torture Isna t Everything". 7. The Stubborn Monkey. 8. "I Am Jesus, Whom You Are Persecuting". 9. The Church as Russia. Part III: The Ecclesiology of a Disappearing Church:. 10. An Amiable Divorce. 11. The Rise of "Social Catholicism". 12. Catholic Action in Chile. Part IV: A Distinction of Planes:. 13. Maritain Among Us. 14. The Minimum of Body. 15. New Christendom. 16. The Disappearance of the Church. 17. The End of the Story. Part V: The True Body of Christ:. 18. The Mystical and the True. 19. Until He Comes. 20. Re--membering Christ. 21. Making the Body Visible. Part VI: Performing the Body of Christ:. 22. "But Father, Look at This Body". 23. Knitting the Social Fabric. 24. Mysterious Channels. 25. Torture and Eucharist. Index.
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