| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Human rights in context ; v. 4 |
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Human rights in context ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
Title page-Social Torture; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1-Introduction; Chapter 2-The Research Process; Chapter 3-An Overview of the Situation in Northern Uganda; Chapter 4-Reconsidering the LRA-Government Dynamic; Chapter 5-Protection as Violation; Chapter 6-Protection as Debilitation; Chapter 7-Protection as Humiliation; Chapter 8-Social Torture and the Continuation of War; Chapter 9-Conclusions; Annex A; Annex B; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book shows how, alongside the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, government decisions and actions on the ground, consolidated by humanitarian interventions and silences, played a central role in creating a massive yet little recognized humanitarian crisis. Not only individuals, but society as a whole, came to exhibit symptoms typical of torture, and the perpetrator-victim |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-324) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lord's Resistance Army.
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| SUBJECT |
Lord's Resistance Army fast |
| Subject |
Torture -- Social aspects -- Uganda
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Violence -- Uganda -- Psychological aspects
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Human rights -- Uganda
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Humanitarian intervention -- Uganda
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War and society -- Uganda
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HISTORY -- Africa -- East.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
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Human rights
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Humanitarian intervention
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Violence -- Psychological aspects
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War and society
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| SUBJECT |
Uganda -- History -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139287
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Uganda -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Uganda -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Uganda -- Politics and government -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139293
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| Subject |
Uganda
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008052522 |
| ISBN |
9781845459123 |
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1845459121 |
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1282627716 |
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9781282627710 |
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9786612627712 |
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6612627719 |
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