How Violence Became Inhuman
How Violence Became Inhuman
The Making of Modern Moral Sensibilities
This chapter explores how violence and humanity bifurcated into opposites in the course of the LRA war. It examines how LRA violence was seen to violate a modern moral sensibility by disrupting modern expectations of the relationship between violence and technology, reason, time, and development. As a result, LRA violence was not only condemned as brutal, but seen to oppose both modernity and humanity. It offers alternative ways of understanding the ethics of violence, drawing on narratives of colonial violence, mob justice, “traditional” violence, and LRA violence like mutilation. It excavates ways of seeing and understanding violence outside the shadow of modern moral sensibility that splits violence and humanity.
Keywords: violence, morality, ethics, modernity, humanity, Lord’s Resistance Army, brutality, mutilation
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