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3 System Justification Theory and Research: Implications for Law, Legal Advocacy, and Social Justice
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A. The Sood and Carlsmith Studies A. The Sood and Carlsmith Studies
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B. The Problem as Understood by Practitioners B. The Problem as Understood by Practitioners
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C. The Path Forward? C. The Path Forward?
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Legal Comment: How to Advocate Against Torture?: Understanding and Countering the Dynamics of Support for Abusive Interrogation
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Published:January 2012
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Human rights and civil rights practitioners have long known that advocating for the rights of unpopular victims is challenging in the best of circumstances and potentially counter-productive in periods of conflict or generalized public insecurity. After the September 11th attacks, advocates in the United States seeking to defend the rights of those suspected of terrorist acts, as well as the rule of law, have encountered a hostile environment generally associated with the most abusive regimes. As the country adopted the practices of authoritarian states, the rights defense community has found itself immersed in what has been for many a novel, authoritarian context.
In this environment, those challenging post-9/11 antiterror practices and discourse with pre-9/11 tactics have done so at their own peril, as well as at times at the potential peril of their cause. Apart from subjecting themselves and their organizations to charges ranging from naïveté to treason, antitorture advocates may risk fomenting backlash that can weaken support for the universal prohibition on torture and respect for human rights. The preceding chapter by Avani Mehta Sood and Kevin M. Carlsmith, which considers the belief systems that motivate support for extreme interrogation techniques and torture, sheds light on dangers for advocates inherent in rights advocacy on behalf of unpopular victims. At the same time, the authors' conclusions implicitly underscore the relevance for rights defenders in the United States of lessons learned, in practice, in extreme contexts in other parts of the world. This chapter considers this potential exchange of lessons.
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