There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the
background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich …

Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and
people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark revelations about torture by …

This book examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies,
exploring the interaction between the international human rights framework and different …

This article is a product of shared and equal authorship. We acknowledge our scholarly and
collegial debt to one another over many years. We also wish to thank Frederic Le Marcis and …

This article examines how local law enforcers in India respond to NGO efforts to disseminate
world culture through human rights education. Law enforcement officers do not merely …

How to heal the relationship between the state and civilians after the conflict ends? This
chapter provides a critical overview of the current academic debates around the theories …

Over the past decade, the cause of individuals who seek international protection from
persecution based on their sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) has been …

The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address the" human" part of"
human rights." Drawing on the finest thinking in political theory, cultural studies, history, law …

ABSTRACT Although Security Sector Reform (SSR) is widely regarded as a vital element of
peacebuilding, its implementation has remained largely disappointing. In recent years, the …

Collective action frames are a key strategy of human rights activists and educators, and
central to this strategy is the ability to connect frames to a population's extant beliefs. But two …