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Responsibility to prevent : overcoming the challenges of atrocity prevention
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ISBN: 0191787299 019102760X Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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As the first edited collection of its kind, devoted exclusively to the preventive dimension of R2P, 'The Responsibility to Prevent: Overcoming the Challenges of Atrocity Prevention' intends to inform and shape the growing debate on how to approach atrocity crime prevention and build the capacities needed to operationalise the imperatives at the heart of R2P.


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My torturess
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ISBN: 0815653174 9780815653172 9780815610472 0815610475 Year: 2015 Publisher: Syracuse Syracuse University Press

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Horse welfare, use not abuse
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ISBN: 1849952213 9781849952217 9781849951630 1849951632 Year: 2015 Publisher: Scotland

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This book is dedicated to the protection of horses, ponies and donkeys, and is based on first-hand international experience from a lifetime spent with horses.


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The Animal Rights Struggle
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ISBN: 9048527031 9089648496 9789048527038 9789089648495 9789089648495 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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Since the early nineteenth century, numerous campaigns have denounced the mistreatment of animals. This book compares the British and French histories of the animal-protection movement to retrace its origins and impact up to the present day. As Christophe Traïni shows, the struggle for animal rights - inextricably linked to the rise of philanthropy and established long before the birth of the ecology movement - developed out of several important social and political processes, including changes in sensibilities and socially approved emotions, new definitions of what constitutes legitimate violence, and the influence of religious beliefs.


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La peine de mort : séminaire
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ISSN: 07682395 ISBN: 9782718609317 9782718608761 2718608765 2718609311 Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris: Galilée,

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Le présent volume édite la première des deux années du séminaire que Jacques Derrida consacra au sujet de la peine de mort (en 1999-2000 et 2000-2001). Présenté intégralement dans le cadre du programme "Philosophie et épistémologie" à l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, à Paris, ce séminaire a aussi fait l'objet d'un enseignement aux Etats-Unis. Il précède immédiatement celui consacré à "La bête et le souverain" (2001-2003), déjà publié. Il relève de l'ensemble commencé en 1997-1998 sous le titre "Le parjure et le pardon", qui appartient lui-même à un ensemble plus long, "Questions de responsabilité", initié en 1989 et finalisé en 2003 avec la dernière année d'enseignement de Jacques Derrida. Voici le résumé qu'en donnait Jacques Derrida dans l'Annuaire de l'EHESS 1999-2000 : "La problématique engagée sous ce titre "Le parjure et le pardon" au cours des deux années passées nous a conduits à privilégier cette fois la grande question de la peine de mort. C'était nécessaire au moins dans la mesure où la peine dite capitale met en jeu, dans l'imminence d'une sanction irréversible, avec ce qui paraît tenu pour l'impardonnable, les concepts de souveraineté (de l'Etat ou du chef d'Etat - droit de vie et de mort sur le citoyen), de droit de grâce, etc. Nous avons étudié la peine de mort, de façon au moins préliminaire, aussi bien à partir de grands exemples paradigmatiques (Socrate, Jésus, Hallâj, Jeanne d'Arc) que de textes canoniques, de la Bible à Camus ou à Badinter, en passant par Beccaria, Locke, Kant, Hugo - à qui nous avons consacré de nombreuses séances -, Genet, etc., et surtout de textes juridiques d'après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Un grand nombre de conventions internationales recommandent en effet la fin des châtiments cruels et des tortures, dont la peine de mort, sans jamais en faire obligation aux Etats dont la souveraineté devait être respectée. Nous nous sommes intéressés aux mouvements abolitionnistes, à leur logique et à leur rhétorique, et surtout aux Etats-Unis dont l'histoire récente, voire très actuelle, a requis de nombreuses analyses - notamment depuis la décision de la Cour suprême qui, en 1972, jugea inconstitutionnelle l'application de la peine de mort ("cruel and unusual punishment"), jusqu'à la reprise amplifiée et spectaculaire des exécutions depuis 1977, etc. Nous avons accordé beaucoup d'attention à l'exception des Etats-Unis. Trois concepts problématiques ont dominé notre questionnement à travers les textes et les exemples étudiés : la souveraineté, l'exception et la cruauté. Autre question conductrice : pourquoi l'abolitionnisme ou la condamnation de la peine de mort, dans son principe même, n'ont-ils (presque) jamais, à ce jour, trouvé une place proprement philosophique dans l'architectonique d'un grand discours philosophique en tant que tel ? Comment interpréter ce fait hautement signifiant ?"


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Fighting nature
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ISBN: 9781743325001 1743325002 9781743324318 1743324316 9781743324325 1743324324 9781743324301 1743324308 Year: 2015 Publisher: The University Of Sydney, N.S.W. Sydney University Press

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Fighting Nature is an insightful analysis of the historical legacy of 19th century colonialism, war, animal acquisition and transportation. This legacy of entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit other animal species is yet to be defeated. Throughout the 19th century animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale re-enactments of war. Initially presenting a handful of exotic animals, travelling menageries grew to contain multiple species in their thousands. These 19th-century menageries entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit nature through war-like practices against other animal species. Animal shows became a stimulus for antisocial behaviour as locals taunted animals, caused fights, and even turned into violent mobs. Human societal problems were difficult to separate from issues of cruelty to animals.


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Mass atrocities, risk and resilience
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ISBN: 9789004299863 9004299874 9004299866 9789004299870 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands Boston

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Mass Atrocities, Risk and Resilience examines the relationship between risk and resilience in the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities and explores two broad areas of neglect. In terms of prevention, there is very little research that analyzes how local and national actors manage the risk associated with mass atrocities. In the field of comparative genocide studies, to date there has been very little interest in examining negative cases. Although much is known about why mass atrocities occur, much less is established about why they do not occur. The contributions in this book address this neglect in two important ways. First, they challenge commonly-accepted approaches to prevention. Second, they explore negative cases in order to better understand how local and national actors have mitigated risk over time.


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Interrogation, intelligence and security
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ISBN: 178170855X 9780719098352 0719098351 9781781708552 9780719091483 0719091489 0719098343 Year: 2015 Publisher: Manchester

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Samantha Newbery examines the origins and effects of a group of controversial interrogation techniques often described as torture, known as the 'five techniques'. Focusing on the colony of Aden at a time when British rule was being challenged by nationalist insurgents (1963-67), on the height of 'the troubles' in Northern Ireland (1971) and the conflict in Iraq (2003), the book explores the use of hooding to restrict vision, white noise, stress positions, limited sleep and a limited diet.


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Bear necessities
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ISBN: 9789004293090 9004293094 9789004292901 900429290X Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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What is it like to rehabilitate sun bears in the rainforests of Malaysia? Why were sloth bears trained to dance? What does Chinese medicine have to do with black bears in North America? Skilled grassroots activists, dedicated sanctuary attendants, determined scholars—those working to protect the world’s eight bear species from Viet Nam to Vermont—come together in Bear Necessities to explore pressures that threaten the world’s remaining bears, and to offer a tapestry of possibilities for protecting and preserving these endangered yet much-loved beings. This diverse collection of approachable, engaging essays is an important new addition to literature for those interested in learning more wilderness and wildlife around the world, especially bears. This book is also available in paperback.

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