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Atrocity fantasies and atrocity allegations
International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2018AbstractAtrocity allegations awaken archaic fantasies of degradation and loss that, if believed, provoke violent retaliation against the alleged perpetrators. Those archaic fantasies are that something terrible has occurred, a vicious attack on one's body or on one's mind or on one's beloved child.
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2021
Abstract For the first two years of the war, the government was extremely reluctant to release information about the atrocities being committed by the Japanese. Officials warned returning civilian internees not to speak to the press about the conditions they had faced as Japanese prisoners.
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Abstract For the first two years of the war, the government was extremely reluctant to release information about the atrocities being committed by the Japanese. Officials warned returning civilian internees not to speak to the press about the conditions they had faced as Japanese prisoners.
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Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities
2023The attacks on 9/11 as well as the ones in Madrid, London, Paris and Brussel; the genocides in Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Cambodia; the torture in dictatorial regimes; the wars in former Yugoslavia, Syria and Iraq and currently in Ukraine; the sexual violence during periods of conflict, all make us wonder: why would anyone do something like that? Who are
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Abstract Anthropologists have been critical of the global asymmetries of knowledge and power embedded in justice institutions established in the aftermath of violence. Truth commissions and mediation processes may be coopted by states seeking to nation-build and extend their coercive and normative capacity in local communities ...
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Abstract Anthropologists have been critical of the global asymmetries of knowledge and power embedded in justice institutions established in the aftermath of violence. Truth commissions and mediation processes may be coopted by states seeking to nation-build and extend their coercive and normative capacity in local communities ...
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International Organization, 2022
AbstractThe Syrian Civil War that began in 2011 killed more than 400,000 civilians. Could a limited intervention motivated by humanitarian concerns have reduced the death toll at an acceptable cost to the intervenors? I distinguish between two approaches to intervention:penalizing atrocities, by raising the cost and lowering the benefit of killing ...
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AbstractThe Syrian Civil War that began in 2011 killed more than 400,000 civilians. Could a limited intervention motivated by humanitarian concerns have reduced the death toll at an acceptable cost to the intervenors? I distinguish between two approaches to intervention:penalizing atrocities, by raising the cost and lowering the benefit of killing ...
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History of Photography, 2012
This article examines the evolution of atrocity photography and its links with humanitarian movements in the late nineteenth century. It argues that photographic images and the language of atrocity must be studied together in order to appreciate the relationship between them which was encapsulated in a genre depicting the ravaged or mutilated body ...
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This article examines the evolution of atrocity photography and its links with humanitarian movements in the late nineteenth century. It argues that photographic images and the language of atrocity must be studied together in order to appreciate the relationship between them which was encapsulated in a genre depicting the ravaged or mutilated body ...
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1998
Abstract A ‘crisis’ is defined as a situation in which if a person does not do something atrocious there will ensue a state of affairs that is even worse. This chapter discusses Anscombe's absolutism about atrocities, and the near‐absolutism of Fried and Williams, and, more sympathetically, Hampshire's view that absolutism ought to be ...
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Abstract A ‘crisis’ is defined as a situation in which if a person does not do something atrocious there will ensue a state of affairs that is even worse. This chapter discusses Anscombe's absolutism about atrocities, and the near‐absolutism of Fried and Williams, and, more sympathetically, Hampshire's view that absolutism ought to be ...
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