HR260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cognitive Dissonance, International Criminal Court, International Humanitarian Law
12 Oct 2020
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In the last series of lessons we have been examining organized, large-scale human rights abuses (state repression, genocide, torture) that can only occur if the state is able to conscript the participation of otherwise ordinary human beings. In this lesson we expand on a topic that was discussed in lesson 11 under the heading, How to make a torturer by considering the processes by which states are able to transform otherwise ordinary people in gross human rights violators (ghrv). After gaining some insight into how this process works, you will be asked to consider how people might resist such processes or, ideally, prevent them from starting in the first place. If you found the subject matter in this lesson interesting and would like to learn more, you may be interested in: This course addresses crimes against humanity and humanitarian law.
