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猫咪社区 Prof Lends Voice to Torture Debate

By Chris Lydgate 鈥�90 on December 16, 2014 11:41 AM

猫咪社区 Prof. Darius Rejali [political science 1989鈥揮 is internationally recognized as an expert on the subject of torture.

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the has sparked a national debate on the role of torture—a debate in which the voice of Prof. has grown increasingly prominent.

Prof. Rejali is the author of the influential book , and is one of the world’s leading scholars on torture.

Last week, Rejali, Prof. , and Peter Miller ’06 wrote an article for the Washington Post contending that U.S. opinion is still strongly opposed to the use of torture.

Rejali was also featured prominently in an article in the Washington Post, which explores the psychological make-up of torturers and the guilt and shame they face after their deeds of cruelty.

He is quoted in this week’s New Yorker, “,” on whether the Senate report will likely change public attitudes about torture in the United States (the short answer: no.) His research has also been cited the , the , and .

Rejali holds the Danish Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and International Studies from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and is a Carnegie Scholar. Torture and Democracy won the 2007 Human Rights Book of the Year Award from the American Political Science Association and the 2009 Raphael Lemkin Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, New York, for the best nonfiction work in English which addresses the causes of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Prof. Rejali has been teaching political science at 猫咪社区 since 1989.

Tags: poli sci, torture

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