Sergeant William Calley's defense of his behavior in the My Lai massacre and the widespread public support for his argument that he was merely obeying orders from a superior and was not personally culpable led Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton to investigate the attitudes toward responsibility and authority that underlie "crimes of obedience"--not only in military circumstances like My Lai but as manifested in Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal, and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Their book is an ardent plea for the right and obligation of citizens to resist illegal and immoral orders from...
Sergeant William Calley's defense of his behavior in the My Lai massacre and the widespread public support for his argument that he was merely obeying...
Herbert C. Kelman Werner Wintersteiner Wilfried Graf
This book is a collection of articles and essays by Professor Herbert C. Kelman, a leading figure in the conflict resolution community and one of the most influential peace researchers.
Professor Kelman, a social psychologist, has been a pioneer of conflict resolution and peace research, and his work in conflict resolution has included a decades-long action research program on the Arab-Israeli conflict which has seen the development of Interactive Problem-Solving Workshops, an approach which has had a deep impact not only on research, but also on the practice of conflict resolution...
This book is a collection of articles and essays by Professor Herbert C. Kelman, a leading figure in the conflict resolution community and one of t...
This volume offers readers a series of snapshots of the Middle Eastern conflict from the late 1970s to the present, and takes them along the ups and downs of the still-unfinished peace process. Each article offers Professor Herb Kelman's distinctive take on the issues, and focuses on the conflicting parties' perceptions, the obstacles to peace, and the political and psychological conditions needed for progress towards peace and reconciliation. The articles are of much more than historical or academic interest. Some are eerily prescient, predicting what would happen if negotiations of the...
This volume offers readers a series of snapshots of the Middle Eastern conflict from the late 1970s to the present, and takes them along the ups an...
