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Title Book of the disappeared : the quest for transnational justice / Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi, editors
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 349 pages) : illustrations
Series Ethnic conflict: studies in nationality, race, and culture
Ethnic conflict.
Contents Latin America's Contributions to the Development of Institutional Responses to Enforced Disappearances / Ariel E. Dulitzky -- The Impact of Enforced Disappearance on Women / Amrita Kapur -- Between Two Rivers / Sama Alshaibi -- Iraq : Enforced Disappearance as a Tool of War / Dirk Adriaensens -- Extraordinary Rendition : a Human Rights Analysis / David Weissbrodt -- Abu Ghraib / Nancy Maron -- Lives in Limbo : Afghanistan's Epidemic of Disappearances / Dallas Mazoori and Stefan Schmitt -- Vanishing Nation : Enforced Disappearances in Syria / Sareta Ashraph and Nicolette Waldman -- Do Not Forget Us, La Tanssana / Helen Zughaib -- Politics of Silence and Denial : 1988 Enforced Disappearances and Executions in Iran / Ashraf Zahedi -- The Eyes / Yassi Golshani -- The Legacy of Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Edina Becirevic and Majda Haliovic -- Genocide of the Rohingya / Elena Sarver and Akila Radhakrishnan -- The Elephant and the Pond of Blood / Leang Seckon -- The Khmer Rouge Bureaucrats : Counting the Missing / James A. Tyner -- Lynch Fragments / Melvin Edwards -- Our Resilient Bodies : the Role of Forensic Science and Medicine in Restoring the Disappeared to History / Soren Blau -- In Between/Underneath (Entremedio/Por Debajo) / Jonathan Herrera Soto -- Retributive or Restorative Justice : Gacaca Courts' Contribution to Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Hilmi M. Zawati -- MIA : Disappearing Political Analysis in Transnational Justice / Vasuki Nesiah -- Stolen / Morgan C. Page -- Story as Portal : Healing, Regeneration, and Possibility After Genocide / Kayhan Irani -- The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers / Ervin Staub
Summary This book confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with contributions by scholars, practitioners, and artists
Notes The open access version of this book is made available thanks in part to the support of libraries participating in Knowledge Unlatched
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed July 31, 2023)
Subject Disappeared persons (International law)
Disappeared persons -- Legal status, laws, etc
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Legal status, laws, etc
Human rights.
Genocide.
Transitional justice.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
Disappeared persons
Genocide
Human rights
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
Form Electronic book
Author Heath, Jennifer, editor.
Zahedi, Ashraf, 1947- editor.
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
ISBN 9780472903252
047290325X
Other Titles Quest for transnational justice