Announcement: Launch of Deana Heath’s Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India
Former ISRF Fellow Deana Heath will be launching latest book, Colonial Terror: Torture and Violence in Colonial India.
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Former ISRF Fellow Deana Heath will be launching latest book, Colonial Terror: Torture and Violence in Colonial India.
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Former ISRF Fellow Deana Heath was interviewed by Suchitra Vijayan for the Polis Project. They spoke about Deana’s latest book, Colonial Terror: Torture and Violence in Colonial India.
Military lawyers told me how they must make split-second decisions that weigh military variables against real human lives.
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Cian O’Driscoll is interviewed in relation to his ISRF Mid-Career Fellowship. He talks about his research on the just war tradition, as well as interdisciplinarity and the theme of violence.
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