Joanna Bourke
Articles by Joanna Bourke
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Emergency funding: an important step toward change
- 19 March 2008
Joanna Bourke describes her relief that Harriet Harman, Minister for Women has announced £1 million funding for Rape Crisis centres. She says that Harman's step is important but it must simply be the beginning.
Life & Society
Rape myths past and present
- 10 March 2008
- 8 comments
Popular prejudices estimate about half rape victims are lying, but research shows just 3% of rape allegations are false - yet another myth about sexual violence
Books
When killing had to stop
- 07 February 2008
- 1 comment
For centuries Europe was a prickly landscape of heavily armed nation states. Now the continent has largely lost its enthusiasm for conflict. How did that happen?
Books
An orgy of inhumanity
- 19 June 2006
The War of the World: history's age of hatred Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 746pp, £25 ISBN 0713997087 Why was the 20th century marked by so many massacres, wars and genocides? And will the next 100 years be any different? Joanna Bourke explores our capacity for hatred
Politics
Silence in the face of slaughter. The US and Britain have been attacked both for ignoring genocide and for intervening to stop it. After the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the massacres in the Balkans and the wars in Rwanda, are we any closer to the right answers?
- 21 July 2003
- 1 comment
A Problem from Hell: America and the age of genocide Samantha Power Flamingo, 656pp, £9.99 ISBN 007172990 Violence: terrorism, genocide, war Wolfgang Sofsky Granta, 273pp, £17.99
Books
Willing executioners
- 21 January 2002
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution Mark Roseman Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 152pp, £9.99 ISBN 071399570X
