Dr.+Rob+Crawford

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=Dr. Rob Crawford=

Location (traveling from): Contact Information: Availability: Confirmed Format: Audience: Countries traveled or worked in: Conference Topic Emphasis: Peace and Social Justice Program Description: THE IDEOLOGICAL CONTOURS of DETAINEE POLICY

Background Information: UWT faculty member

.....How to understand the state of the "debates" about torture An examination of legal and political justifications for turture in the post-9/11 era. Why are the legal strategies of the administration ideological? What are the administrations's underlying political arguments about how to fight and win the war on terror? What is the relevance of the "ticking bomb" scenario? Discussion of the moral-political-legal reasons for resisting administration justifications and policy.