States of Denial
Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering

Publisher:  Polity
Year Published:  2001
Pages:  355pp   Price:  15.99/14   Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7041

Abstract: 
An exploration of how organised atrocities - the Holocaust, other genocides, torture, and political massacres - are denied by perpetrators and especially by bystanders, those who could potentially act and instead do nothing.

Subject Headings

• Authority
• Denial
• Ethics
• Genocide
• Human Rights
• Human Rights Abuses
• Morality
• Mutual Aid
• Solidarity
• Torture
• Violence