That the World May Know - Bearing Witness to Atrocity

Informationen zum Autor James Dawes is DeWitt Wallace Professor of English at Macalester College. Klappentext After the worst thing in the world happens! then what? What is left to the survivors! the witnesses! those who tried to help? What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future! and to stop the ones that are happening right now? This work tells the story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Zusammenfassung How can we prevent future atrocities, and stop the ones that are happening now? This book tells the powerful story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity in our day.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James Dawes, Dawes James
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.09.2007
• EAN: 9780674026230
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02623-0
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 146 mm x 184 mm x 25 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, HISTORY / Africa / East, Rwanda, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, African History, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, human rights violence