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Restoring the Rule of Law Christopher H. Pyle |
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Torture and the Ideology of National Security Robert Crawford |
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The Illusion of Accountability: The Idea of an American Truth Commission on Torture Stuart Streichler |
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Deconstructing Ticking-Bomb Arguments Catherine McDonald |
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Defusing the Ticking Social Bomb Argument: The Right to Self-Defensive Torture Uwe Steinhoff |
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Torture Writ Large: The Israeli Occupation Louis Frankenthaler |
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The Necessity Defence and the Myth of the Noble Torturer Jessica Wolfendale |
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What Would Jack Do? The Ethics of Torture in 24 Donal P. O’Mathuna |
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The Torturer’s Apprentice: Psychology and ‘Enhanced Interrogations’ Bryant L. Welch |
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Algeria as Template: Torture and Counter-Insurgency War Marnia Lazreg |
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Faith-Based Torture Liaquat Ali Khan |
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Cranking up the Volume: Music as a Tool of Torture Jonathan Pieslak |
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Book Review 'A Long Experience of War': Gaza in Historical Perspective Michael Theodoulou |
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Book Review Harmony amid Diversity: The Importance of Interfaith Dialogue Adina Friedman |
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Book Review Humanity and Its Landscapes: A Green History Holmes Rolston III |
GLOBAL DIALOGUE
Volume 12 ● Number 1 ● Winter/Spring 2010—Working the Dark Side Faith-Based Torture
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orms of torture inflicted on Muslim prisoners at various detention camps under United States government control—Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca in Iraq, Guantanamo in Cuba, Bagram in Afghanistan, and secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prisons around the world—have been both conventional and custom-designed. Conventional forms of torture, such as suffocation by water (“waterboarding”), prolonged coerced adoption of stress positions, denial of food, and exposure to extremes of heat and cold, are physical abuse, meant to torment individual detainees. Custom-designed forms of torture, such as enforced nudity, compelled participation in real or simulated sexual acts, the shaving-off of beards, and desecration of...
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