The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach

by Danielle Celermajer

Book Overview

There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach interrogates the worlds that produce torture in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. Critics have decried human rights approaches' failure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108454666
• ISBN13: 9781108454667
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"