Kimberly Theidon

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB297/index.htm#.UYt9ln-XdGo.email

Jennifer Bryson- Speaking Out Against Torture
http://vimeo.com/41959524

I was with a wonderful group of colleagues at the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Center for the conference ” Ways of Knowing After Atrocity: A Colloquium on the Methods used to Research, Design and Implement Transitional Justice Processes.”  I learned a great deal.

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/speaking-silences-gender-violence-and-redress-audio

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/features/readinglists/what-to-read-on-peruvian-politics

Tate_JLACA_review

Powerful op-ed, and certainly the international aspect of this issue has haunted me since the shootings in Connecticut. I lament the hierarchy of value in which some lives “matter more” than others. I abhor the armed violence our government exports across the globe. There is also the shameful role the US plays as the number one arms merchant in the world. Drone attacks justified on abhorrent ethics reflect the bankruptcy of audit culture. Perhaps if we can find a way to point to the common threads that unite these various manifestations of militarization, ethnic and racial discrimination, the weapons industry and the politicians that vote wrong on these issues time and again, then perhaps we can more effectively channel the grief and outrage we all feel at present.

http://www.gazettenet.com/home/3407669-95/killed-deaths-beings-chicago#.UNIhyvqttYR.email

IPS – PERU: Furnaces Used to Remove Evidence of Dirty War Killings | Inter Press Service

Source: ipsnews.net

For my Boston-based friends and colleagues, please join me for a discussion with author Eyal Press.  His book explores the other side of  Christopher Browning’s “ordinary men,” or Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil.” Mr. Press speaks with those who did not just go along, but somehow managed to keep their moral compass while those around them overwhelmingly did not. Who are these ordinary people who maintained their decency in extraordinary times?