Anti-Torture Teaching Resource
Anti-Torture Teaching Resource
Subject: Anti-Torture Teaching Resource From: "Clarity Press, Inc." Date: 20 Sep 2006
If President George W. Bush has his way,
torture will become the norm
in America's war on terror.
CAN WE LET TORTURE BECOME
THE AMERICAN WAY?
THE PEAR TREE: Is Torture Ever Justified?
by Eric Stener Carlson
Foreword by Richard Pierre Claude
Founding Editor, Human Rights Quarterly
Late one night, Eric Stener Carlson sat down to review witness statements of torture victims splayed across his desk. And so this book began...
It takes us on a journey from the mass graves of Argentina, to the desolate slums of Peru, to the brutality of the Dominican Republic and the rape camps of the former Yugoslavia. Carlson probes the rationale for torture on the personal level of the spectator who, in the grip of fear, might presume to be safeguarded thereby. The Pear Tree is a stark exposition of torturers and victims, and the witnesses who choose to support one side or the other. It addresses the experiential, philosophical and political dimensions of the question: Can we safeguard our children by torturing the children of others?
"This small book should be read by everyone today, when the subject is in the forefront of the national consciousness. No one should make up their mind about torture before they read this book."
Herbert F. Spirer,
Professor Emeritus
University of Connecticut
former Adjunct Professor of International Affairs
Columbia University
"This is a unique work of spiritual exorcism that both exposes the errors of excuses offered for torture while allowing us to see those who harm us as human. Moreover, it is a work of narrative philosophy that is purgative in intent and a work of high literary merit that is ultimately healing in effect."
from the Foreword by
Richard Pierre Claude
"[Carlson's] exploration aims to shrink the distance between him and the atrocities he studies, to defend against the numbness of the professional observer. In vividly told stories, Carlson struggles honestly not only to empathize with the victim, but to put himself, too, in the place of the perpetrator. By doing so, he both acknowledges the instinct to protect that could make him kill or torture and affirms the reasons why he cannot."
James J. Silk
Executive Director
Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights
Yale Law School
ABOUT ERIC STENER CARLSON
Eric Stener Carlson is a recognized expert in human rights and the study of torture, with many years experience working for international organizations. He has investigated mass sexual assault for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, exhumed and identified bodies of "the disappeared" in Argentina as a Fulbright scholar, and assessed prison conditions of alleged terrorists throughout Peru as a free-lance expert. His publications include I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared, and articles in The Lancet, and The British Journal of Criminology. Carlson holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University.
CLARITY PRESS, INC. http://www.claritypress.com
ISBN: 0-932863-45-0 Paper $14.95 2006
Table of contents, synopsis and reviews available at:
http://www.bookmasters.com/clarity/b0026.htm
Available from:
SCB Distributors,15608 South New Century Drive, Gardena, CA. 90248
victor@scbdistributors.com
Toll-free 800-729-6423
* Tel: 1-310-532-9400
* Fax: 1-310-532-7001
or through www.amazon.com or Ingram
or Fernwood Books in Canada. Lindsay@fernwoodbooks.ca
To remove: clarity@islandnet.com
Subject: Anti-Torture Teaching Resource From: "Clarity Press, Inc."
If President George W. Bush has his way,
torture will become the norm
in America's war on terror.
CAN WE LET TORTURE BECOME
THE AMERICAN WAY?
THE PEAR TREE: Is Torture Ever Justified?
by Eric Stener Carlson
Foreword by Richard Pierre Claude
Founding Editor, Human Rights Quarterly
Late one night, Eric Stener Carlson sat down to review witness statements of torture victims splayed across his desk. And so this book began...
It takes us on a journey from the mass graves of Argentina, to the desolate slums of Peru, to the brutality of the Dominican Republic and the rape camps of the former Yugoslavia. Carlson probes the rationale for torture on the personal level of the spectator who, in the grip of fear, might presume to be safeguarded thereby. The Pear Tree is a stark exposition of torturers and victims, and the witnesses who choose to support one side or the other. It addresses the experiential, philosophical and political dimensions of the question: Can we safeguard our children by torturing the children of others?
"This small book should be read by everyone today, when the subject is in the forefront of the national consciousness. No one should make up their mind about torture before they read this book."
Herbert F. Spirer,
Professor Emeritus
University of Connecticut
former Adjunct Professor of International Affairs
Columbia University
"This is a unique work of spiritual exorcism that both exposes the errors of excuses offered for torture while allowing us to see those who harm us as human. Moreover, it is a work of narrative philosophy that is purgative in intent and a work of high literary merit that is ultimately healing in effect."
from the Foreword by
Richard Pierre Claude
"[Carlson's] exploration aims to shrink the distance between him and the atrocities he studies, to defend against the numbness of the professional observer. In vividly told stories, Carlson struggles honestly not only to empathize with the victim, but to put himself, too, in the place of the perpetrator. By doing so, he both acknowledges the instinct to protect that could make him kill or torture and affirms the reasons why he cannot."
James J. Silk
Executive Director
Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights
Yale Law School
ABOUT ERIC STENER CARLSON
Eric Stener Carlson is a recognized expert in human rights and the study of torture, with many years experience working for international organizations. He has investigated mass sexual assault for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, exhumed and identified bodies of "the disappeared" in Argentina as a Fulbright scholar, and assessed prison conditions of alleged terrorists throughout Peru as a free-lance expert. His publications include I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared, and articles in The Lancet, and The British Journal of Criminology. Carlson holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University.
CLARITY PRESS, INC. http://www.claritypress.com
ISBN: 0-932863-45-0 Paper $14.95 2006
Table of contents, synopsis and reviews available at:
http://www.bookmasters.com/clarity/b0026.htm
Available from:
SCB Distributors,15608 South New Century Drive, Gardena, CA. 90248
victor@scbdistributors.com
Toll-free 800-729-6423
* Tel: 1-310-532-9400
* Fax: 1-310-532-7001
or through www.amazon.com or Ingram
or Fernwood Books in Canada. Lindsay@fernwoodbooks.ca
To remove: clarity@islandnet.com
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