Exceptional Sexuality in a Time of Terror: “Muslim” Subjects and Dissenting/Unmournable Bodies
This essay complicates received understandings of violence against queer (and other) bodies in Muslim South Asia by re-visiting the 2016 killing of two Dhaka-based gay-rights activists.
Dina M. Siddiqi
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Inter-state terrorism in the 21st Century: Mapping the Evolution of the Global Rendition System [PDF]
This paper seeks to explain the development and operation of a now global system of rendition and secret detention in the ‘War on Terror’. The paper offers two corrections to current understandings of rendition.
Blakeley, Ruth, Raphael, Sam
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Problems of realization of the right to life in the Republic of Iraq
Background. The right to life is fundamental, without its full realization it is impossible to enjoy other benefits, to freely develop a particular individual and society as a whole.
M.A.N. Al Kkhafadzhi, T.N. Balashova
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Bringing it home: the inter-American system and state obligations - using a gender approach regionally to address women's rights violations domestically [PDF]
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Jaichand, Vinodh, O'Connell, Ciara
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Ethnic identity and perceptions of the police in Turkey: the case of Kurds and Turks [PDF]
Drawing on the literature on minorities’ and ethnic groups’ perceptions of the police, this article investigates the differences between Kurds and Turks in terms of their perceptions of the police in Turkey.
Akboga, Sema, Sahin, Osman
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ROLE OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CONTRIBUTING TO YOUTH RADICALIZATION IN MOMBASA AND KWALE COUNTIES [PDF]
The criminal justice system is at the centre of curtailing radicalization and terrorism. Despite many youths having been arrested, prosecuted or even eliminated, youth radicalization seems to be on the rise which points to the fact that the very ...
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Cascades Across An ‘Extremely Violent Society’: Sri Lanka
In the “Peacebuilding Compared” research project so far, violence is seen as cascading across space and time within and between war-torn societies. This article illustrates the cascade lens as a framework for hypothesis generation.
John Braithwaite, Bina D'Costa
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Reparations for victims of gross human rights violations are becoming an increasingly acknowledged feature in post-authoritarian and post-conflict societies coping with the legacy of a violent past.
Greiff, Pablo de, Rubio-Marín, Ruth
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Private Violence, Public Wrongs, and the Responsibility of States [PDF]
This Article will discuss the decisions of the Inter-American Court, comparing them with U.S. judicial decisions involving “state action” and private conduct.
Shelton, Dinah
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The Space of Enforced Disappearance
Enforced disappearance is a pertinent issue, particularly in the context of Pakistan and many other developing countries. However, the phenomenon of 'enforced disappearance' and the presence of a corresponding 'penal architecture' characterized by its 'invisibility' and 'unknowability' has not been given sufficient scholarly attention.
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