MAY 18, 2004

POLITICS
Prisoner abuse: ethics, morals and religion

STATE BY STATE
• The National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs has links to members and associate members in states across the country.

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Saul Kassin, professor of psychology and chair of legal studies at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., studies the interrogation and confessions - particularly false confessions - of suspects in the criminal justice setting. Contact 413-597-2253 (office), 413-597-3549 (lab), skassin@williams.edu.
• Martha L. Minow is professor of law at Harvard Law School in Massachusetts. She has expertise in human rights and transitional societies, and religion. Contact 617-495-4276, minow@law.harvard.edu.
• Reuven Kimelman is associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He has written about Jewish understandings of war. Contact 781-736-2963, kimelman@brandeis.edu.
• Omer Bartov is professor of European history at Brown University in Providence, R.I., and has expertise in issues of war and killing. Contact 401-863-1375, Omer_Bartov@brown.edu.
• Susan Niditch is professor of religion at Amherst College in Massachusetts and has expertise in Hebrew Bible, war and women. Contact 413-542-2270, sniditch@amherst.edu.

IN THE EAST
• Lori Fisler Damrosch is Henry L. Moses Professor International Law and Organization at Columbia University Law School in New York. She is a member of numerous international law and human rights organizations and has published extensively. Contact 212-854-7946, damrosch@law.columbia.edu.
• Michael W. Doyle is Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy and professor of international and public affairs and of law at Columbia University Law School in New York. Contact 212-854-3239, md2221@columbia.edu.
• Hadar Harris is executive director of the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University's Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She is an international human rights attorney and has specialized in issues of civil and political rights, gender equality and fighting impunity for torturers. Contact 202-274-4180.
• Diane Orentlicher is a professor at the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University's Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. Her scholarly work has focused on issues of accountability for human rights crimes, transitions to democracy, corporate responsibility in a transnational context, and the relationship between ethnic identity and political participation. Contact 202-274-4180.
• Martha Huggins is Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. She is the author of Political Policing: The United States and Latin America (Duke, 1998). Contact 518-388-6131, hugginsm@union.edu.
• Ralston H. Deffenbaugh Jr. is president of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which sponsors the Detained Torture Survivor Legal Support Network. Contact him in Baltimore through director of communications Susan Baukhages, 410-230-279, sbaukhages@lirs.org.
• Harry Dammer is an associate professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. He is expertise is in the role of religion in prisons. Contact 570-941-5853, dammerh2@scranton.edu.
Jefferson McMahan is professor of philosophy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. He has written about war, killing and morality. Contact 732-932-9862 ext. 155, mcmahan@philosophy.rutgers.edu.
• Julie A. Mertus is assistant professor at American University's School of International Service. She has expertise in women, human rights and war. Contact 202-885-2215, mertus@american.edu.
• Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma http://www.astt.org/ is a Baltimore treatment center. Contact 410-464-9006.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• The Carter Center in Atlanta is involved in human rights worldwide. Read their May 14, 2004, publication "Human Rights Defenders on the Frontlines of Freedom: Protecting Human Rights in the Context of the War on Terror". Contact public relations director Deanna Congileo, 404-420-5117; dcongil@emory.edu.
• The Inter-American Center for Human Rights at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is "a response to the profound need in South Florida for an organization that is committed to furthering the civil and human rights of our diverse communities." Law professor Charlene Smith is executive director. Contact 954-262-6100, smithchar@nsulaw.nova.edu.
• John Kelsay is professor of religion at Florida State University in Tallahassee and has written extensively on Islam, war and human rights. Contact 850-644-0209 ext. 1020, jkelsay@garnet.acns.fsu.edu.
• James F. Childress is professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville who has written about the ethics of war. Contact 434-924-6724, Childress@virginia.edu.

IN THE SOUTH
• Forrest E Harris Sr. is president of American Baptist College in Nashville, Tenn., and director of the Kelly Miller Smith institute on African American Church Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. As a member of the Human Rights Commission, he traveled to other countries to speak about human rights and ethnicity. Contact 615-343-3963, forrest.e.harris@vanderbilt.edu.
• Hugh Thompson was a helicopter pilot who protected Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre. He received a medal for heroism in 1998 and works as a veterans assistance counselor supervisor in the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs in Lafayette, La. He says poor leadership is responsible and that if people started thinking and applied something as simple as the golden rule, abuse would not happen. Contact 337-262-5628.

IN THE MIDWEST
• George E. Edwards is director of Program in International Human Rights Law at Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis. Contact 317-278-2359, gedwards@indiana.edu.
• David Weissbrodt and Kristi Rudelius-Palmer are co-directors of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Contact Weissbrodt at 612-625-5027, krp@tc.umn.edu and Rudelius-Palmer at 612-626-7794, weiss001@tc.umn.edu.
• The Center for Victims of Torture is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 1985 in Minneapolis. It provides treatment, training, education and research. Contact 612-436-4800.
• Doug Cassel is director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University and a frequent commentator on human rights issues. He called for independent inspection of U.S. interrogation centers in a May 9, 2004, article in the Chicago Tribune. Contact 312-503-2224 (office),773-750-5387 (cell).
• William Eckhardt of the University of Missouri Kansas City Law School prosecuted Lt. William Calley for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and taught at the U.S. Army War College. Contact 816-235-2377, eckhardtw@umkc.edu.
• Ann Annis and Michelle Loyd-Paige are co-authors of Set Us Free: What the Church Needs to Know From Survivors of Abuse (University Press of America, 2001), together with Rodger R. Rice, a sociologist who is now retired. The book cites dozens of interviews from a 1990 survey of the incidence of child abuse among members of the Christian Reformed Church who felt religion played a part in their abuse. Annis is a researcher at the Center for Social Research at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. Contact 616-526-6420. Loyd-Paige is a professor of sociology at Calvin. Contact 616-526-6239, lopa@calvin.edu.
• Louay Safi is a political scientist who has written and taught internationally on the Islamic world. He works in leadership development for the Islamic Society of North America in Plainfield, Ind. Contact 317-839-8157, ext. 247, louay@att.net.
• Oren Gross is a professor at University of Minnesota Law School. He is author of the paper, "The Prohibition on Torture and the Limits of the Law." Contact 612-624-7521.
• Regina Schwartz is director of the Institute for Religion and Global Violence at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Contact 847-491-5588, regina-s@northwestern.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Manuel Balbona is executive director of the Center for Survivors of Torture in Dallas, Texas. He is an adjunct associate professor in Psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and also in private practice. Contact 214-827-2314.
• John A. Wood is professor of ethics and religion at Baylor University in Waco and has written about the ethics of war. Contact 254-710-6327, John_Wood@Baylor.edu.
• Robin Lovin is an ethicist at Southern Methodist University, the author of Christian Ethics: The Essential Guide (Abingdon Press, 2000) and a frequent commentator on war and peace issues. 214-768-4134, rlovin@mail.smu.edu.
• Martin L. Cook is the author of "Ethical Issues in War: An Overview". He teaches philosophy at the U.S Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. His book The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S. Military (SUNY Press) is forthcoming. 719-333-8664, martin.cook@usafa.af.mil.
• The International Human Rights Advocacy Center is at the University of Denver in Colorado. Sharon Healey is director of its Asylum Project and has expertise in human rights and humanitarian law.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Khaled Abou El Fadl is professor of Islamic Law at the University of California-Los Angeles' School of Law. He has written extensively on war, Islam and terrorism. Contact 310-206-5401, abouelfa@law.ucla.edu.
• Craig Haney, an author of the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, is professor of social psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Haney went on to earn a law degree from Stanford and a doctorate in psychology. He has been a leading legal consultant on prison reform litigation. He teaches psychology and law and the psychology of institutions. Contact 831-459-2153.
• The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding. The Center contemporary issues including racism, antisemitism, terrorism and genocide. Contact executive director Rabbi Meyer H. May at 310-553-9036.
• Eric Stover is Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California-Berkeley. The center's research focuses on war crimes, justice and postwar reconstruction, health and human rights, and globalization. Contact 510-642-0965.