When states are threatened by war and terrorism, can we really expect them to abide by human rights and humanitarian law? David P. Forsythe's bold analysis of U

A bold critique of US policies towards terror suspects after 9/11, which will interest all those who value human rights and humanitarian law.

Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004.

The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding children and th

The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the recognition that