where send to?
Annie
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Sent: Sun 08/10/2006 07:00
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Subject: Re: More on APA and psychological torture by US military
Shall we discuss it at the launch of Psychologists for Social
Responsibility in north London on 16th October?
Can you send me a copy?
Keith Venables
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Sent: 06 October 2006 21:59
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Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] More on APA and psychological torture by
US military
Did anyone see the mealy mouthed editorial on psychology and torture for
the BPS in this month's Psychologist? I wondered if someone felt
energised to write a letter from our network? I'd support if anyone else
felt able to put something together?
Annie
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Sent: 14 September 2006 01:32
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Subject: Re: More on APA and psychological torture by US military
I would want to add a degree of caution over invoking international
agreements on human rights. Such statutes are rarely 'agreements' (in a
consensual sense) and rarely 'international' (in a collectivist sense).
Some (most) of these 'agreements' are ideologically and politically
problematic to the extent that they assert a particular cultural,
political and historical framework as one that is universal. Typically,
the individual is considered the fundamental social unit, rather than
the family, the community, the society and so on.
The UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child is a case in point where
it is 'the child' rather than 'children' that is named as the focus of
concern/intervention. At present, invoking the concept of international
agreements on human rights often does little more than universalise
Western value systems that place primacy on individual rights at the
expense of the rights of the collective and that promote the interests
of Western industrialised nations, economic liberatisation and the
protection of commerical coporate interests. This is particularly
problematic when such agreements are imposed upon cultures where the
rights of the family and of the collective rather than the individual
are afforded primacy and where health rather than wealth is used as the
main indicator of development - Cuba being a case in point.
Should we need to be mindful that much of what passes now as universal
agreements on human rights was born from a pact between Churchill and
Roosevelt following world war two and was more about the protection of
the economic rights of both the UK and USofAmerica as it was about
seeking a socially just society. The fact that the UK and USofAmerica
are reneiging on those agreements or cheery picking from them arguablly
attests to what those agreements were originally meant to ensure - i.e.,
when they cease to protect corporate interests they are
abandoned/redesigned. To invoke such international agreements
unproblematicaly in any condemnations we make over the use of torture in
the West's war on 'terror' may in fact fuel the very injustice that we
may feel we want to speak out against.
I have just returned from annual leave and have a large number of emails
to read and reply to. This may result in a delay in my responding to
your email. I apologise for any inconvenience this might cause you.
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