References and Resources

You will not find new information here, but I wanted to provide a single location for all of the links and references that I have used throughout this series of blog posts.


Internet Resources:

• The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos
• The Daily Dish
• The Interrogation Documents: Debating U.S. Policy and Methods
• Medieval torture
• Modern torture
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

News Media:

• "The Abu Ghraib Pictures." The New Yorker, 3 May 2004.
• Bell, Kevin. "How Our Training Fails Us When It Counts." ARMY Magazine, Nov 2011.
• Fisher, Ian. "THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: PRISONER; Iraqi Tells of U.S. Abuse, From Ridicule to Rape Threat." The New York Times, 14 May 2004.
• Hirsh, Michael. "Abu Ghraib: 'Breaking' a General." The Daily Beast, 5 Sept 2004.
• "Introduction: The Abu Ghraib Files." Salon, 14 Mar 2006.
• Ross, Brian. "CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described." ABC News, 18 Nov 2005.
• "Torture Scandal: The images that shamed America." The Guardian.

Survivors:

• Vannnath.com
• Vann Nath, Artist and Cambodia Torture Survivor, Dies at 65
• No Justice for Chile
• DemocracyNow.org - Interview with Patricia Isasa

Non-Governmental Organizations:

• The Center for Victims of Torture
• The Center for Torture and Trauma Survivors
• The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
• The Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
• The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• Amnesty International: 12-Point Programme for the Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by Agents of the State

Government Resources:

• ACLU FOIA Files Released 10 March 2005 - Search for "DOD 863-864"
• Executive Order 13491 -- Ensuring Lawful Interrogations
• Military Commissions Act of 2006
• The United States Constitution

International Treaties:

• Project of an International Declaration concerning the Laws and Customs of War
• Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• The Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Reports, Books, and Articles:

Amnesty International. Amnesty International Report 2011: The State of the World's Human Rights. London: Amnesty International, 2011.

Donnelly, Jack. International Human Rights, Third Edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 2007.

Einolf, Christopher J. "The Fall and Rise of Torture: A Comparative and Historical Analysis."Sociological Theory, 25.2 (2007): 101-121.

Golash, Deirdre. "Torture and Self-Defense." Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to a Just War Theory. Ed. S. P. Lee. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. 263-271.

Ginzburg, Karni, and Neria, Yuval. "Mental Health Interventions for Survivors of Torture: Current Status and Future Directions." Journal of Psychiatry. 219.3 (2011): 187-189.

Grady, Denis. "Tugging at Threads to Unspool Stories of Torture." 02 May 2011. The New York Times. 17 Feb 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/health/03torture.html?_r=1&src=rechp&pagewanted=all>

Harbury, Jennifer K. Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.

Harris, Lasana T., and Fiske, Susan T. "Dehumanized Perception: A Psychological Means to Facilitate Atrocities, Torture, and Genocide?" Journal of Psychology. 219.3 (2011): 175-181.

Himma, Kenneth Einar. "Assessing the Prohibition Against Torture." Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory. Ed. S. P. Lee. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. 235-248.

Human Rights Watch. When I Die...They'll Send Me Home. Human Rights Watch, 2012.

Hunt, Lynn. Inventing Human Rights: A History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.

Luban, David. "Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb." Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory. Ed. S. P. Lee. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. 249-262.

Milgram, Stanley. "Behavioral Study of Obedience." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.67.4 (1963): 371-378.

Murphy, Jeffrie. "Cruel and Unusual Punishments," in his Retribution, Justice and Therapy(Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1979) quoted in Golash, Deirdre, "Torture and Self-Defense," p. 266, found in S. P. Lee (ed.), Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory. Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2007). 263-271.

O'Mara, Shane. "On the Imposition of Torture, an Extreme Stressor State, to Extract Information From Memory: A Baleful Consequence of Folk Cognitive Neurobiology." Journal of Psychology,219.3 (2011): 159-166.

Zimbardo, Philip. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Random House, 2008.