Journal of Human Rights Graphic image by Kathe Kollwitz


Volume 1 Number 4 December 2002
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IN THIS ISSUE

Round Table on Genocide Prevention: Genocide prevention, morality, and the national interest

Jerry Fowler, Samantha Power, David Scheffer, Holly Burkhalter, Scott Feil, Roy Gutman, Allen Hertzke, Steven Kull and Aryeh Neier

The demographic roots of European xenophobia
Harvey Fireside

State regulation of xenophobia versus individual freedoms:
the European view
Eva Brems

US foreign policy and human rights
David P. Forsythe

(Mis)representing East Timor's past: structural-symbolic violence, international law, and the institutionalization of injustice
Joseph Nevins

Routine police torture: towards a personalistic analysis and strategy
Piet van Reenan

Taking proactive steps to prevent violence
Vincent N. Parrillo

Feminist praxis and women's human rights
Laura Parisi

The problem of cultural relativism for the sociology of human rights: Weber, Schmitt and Strauss
Bryan S. Turner

BOOK REVIEWS

Negotiating Culture and Human Rights,
by Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan and Ilan Peleg
Reviewed by Abdullahi A. An-Na'm

As if Peoples Mattered: A Critical Appraisal of 'Peoples' and 'Minorities' from the International Human Rights Perspective and Beyond,
by Zelim Skurbaty
Reviewed by Thomas W. Simon

Vojislav Kostunica and Serbia's Future, by Norman Cigar
Milosevic and Markovic: A Lust for Power, by Slavoljub Djukic
Reviewed by Sabrina P. Ramet

War-Related Sexual Violence in Sierra Leone: a Population-Based Assessment, by Physicians for Human Rights
Reviewed by Keith Hart

Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic, by Sabrina Ramet
Reviewed by Norman Cigar

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS