Emilie Hafner-Burton's Work Featured in New Research Symposium
Can Governments Prevent Terrorism while Also Respecting Human Rights, or Must Authorities Trade Off Some Human Rights to Reduce Terrorism?
07/01/2010
Sarah Vogelsong,
The American Political Science Association
Washington, DC—A new research symposium investigates the interrelationships between terrorism and governmental respect for human rights, regarding both how political authorities respond to terrorist violence and how human rights abuses can predict subsequent terrorist attacks. Responding to a lack of systematic evidence and granular data on the linkages between these two areas, the symposium addresses issues both domestic and international, ranging from public opinion on torture to the Guantanamo detention facility, sexual abuse in Israeli prisons, and the American profile abroad.
The research appears in the July issue of PS: Political Science and Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association.
Read the full press release here.
Emilie Hafner-Burton's paper, co-authored with Jacob N. Shapiro and titled "Tortured Relations: Human Rights Abuses and Counterterrorism Cooperation" can be accessed here.
Related Links
Emilie Hafner-Burton is co-director of the Laboratory on International Law & Regulation
Emilie Hafner-Burton's website
