Violence All Around

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Violence All Around John Sifton Harvard University Press A human rights lawyer travels to hot zones around the globe before and after 9/11 to document abuses by warlords, terrorists, and counterterrorism forces. John Sifton reminds us that human rights advocates can only shame the world into better behavior; to invoke rights is to invoke the force to uphold them, including the very violence they deplore. Violence All Around - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ... Violence All Around means to do something different. Sifton explains, in the books preface, that Violence All Around looks directly at violence, rather than at its causes and effects. Violence, he concludes, "reveals deeper truths about the workings of human history and the physical world, and about cause and effect itself"(p. XII). Violence All Around: John Sifton: 9780674057692: Amazon ... Violence All Around by John Sifton is a thoughtful, well-written book that is made stronger through Siftons personal anecdotes, as well as his own research into the history of violence This is a wide-ranging, ambitious work that examines the notion of violence from a panoply of angles