Torture

finally caught for torturing the prisoners. The “indignity” she had to face is similar to the embarrassment the boys faced when the naval officer saw how savage a group of schoolboys had become. While they were committing the irrational and savage torture, they never thought of the consequences, but now they are emotional and lose their ranking. This is similar to how the boys, except Ralph and Piggy, never really thought of the consequences of letting the smoke signal go out, and then burning…

that began in March 2003, personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These violations included physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and murder. One of the participating Guards in the Stanford Prison experiment actually said, “Give us enough time and we would have got there.”It is not ‘a few bad apples’,…

relationship between prisoner and guard. Even thirty years after the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), the same theme of human corruption is still being documented. Similar to the SPE, the roles of superior and inferior are central to the various acts of torture inflicted on detainees in Abu Ghraib. For instance, the people…

Social Psychology is the study of how human interactions shape and influence mental processes and displayed behaviors. Much like behaviorism, social psychology relies upon empirical, observable evidence and scientific experiments to prove theories. In fact, nearly all social psychology theories are supported by experiments. Social psychology also ignores the biological perspective of psychology, disregarding influence of hormones and neurotransmitters. Unlike behaviorism, social psychology…

According to Dictionary.com obedience is to comply “with an order, request or law or submission to another’s authority.” Obedience is a component in social behavior and everyday life. However, there are different forms of obedience such as blind obedience. This is where an individual follows direction without any question or moral perspective without knowing they are causing harm. Such form of obedience can be hostile and perilous to the people involved. This can be seen in the atrocious deaths…

While the stereotyping and the enemy making of a certain group of peoples seems to be reserved for the Americans versus the other, the Turkish film Valley of the Wolves: Iraq instead flips the script by doing so to the Americans from an Iraqi/ Turkish standpoint. This film includes a dramatization of the events of July 4, 2003, when American Marines raided Turkish Special Forces offices in Sulimaniyah, put hoods on the Special Forces heads, and detained them for several days. After this they…

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil is written by Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D and published in 2007. He is professionally known as a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University as well as the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. He graduated summa cum laude from Brooklyn College with a triple major in psychology, sociology, and anthropology in 1954. Then he attended Yale University where he received his Master’s degree and Doctorate in psychology.…

mentioned districts, while one session in the second phase will be held in Islamabad. The sessions will be utilized to sensitize the journalist community vis-à-vis torture in the legal system and further engage them to play their part in eradication of torture. The sessions will be further utilized to form four Commissions Against Torture (CAT). The initial phase trainings will have twenty five journalists each, while the second phase training will have a total of twenty journalists, nominated…

When it comes to the topic of torture most of us will readily agree that it is morally wrong. Where this agreement usually ends however is on the question of terrorism. Whereas some are convinced that torture tactics should be used on a terrorist to gain valuable information, others maintain that false information can be received. In my own view, torture interrogation tactics should be considered when dealing with a terrorist threat because a terrorist performs acts of violence to achieve a…

THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME: IS IT REALLY EFFICACIOUS OR IS IT TIME FOR RETOOLING? “Wars, undertaken to maintain national honor, should be conducted upon the principles of moderation” – Hugo Grotius The history pertaining to the prisoner of war is as old as the history of warfare and throughout the course of such history we have always worshipped the victor and the loser is often erased from our memories. As the search for legal protection…