Digging for the disappeared : forensic science after atrocity / Adam Rosenblatt.

By:

Rosenblatt, Adam (Adam Richard) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Stanford studies in human rightsPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 278 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780804794886
080479488X
0804788774
9780804788779

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Digging for the disappeared : forensic science after atrocity.DDC classification:

599.9 23

LOC classification:

GN69.8 .R67 2015eb

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Contents:

Introduction : born at the graves : a human rights movement takes shape -- The stakeholders in international forensic investigations -- The politics of grief -- Forensics of the sacred -- Dead to rights -- Caring for the dead.

Summary: The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is g.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is g.

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