Violence, Mimesis, and War

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeneviève SouillacGeneviève Souillac, Ph.D., pursued research and taught philosophy, social and political theory, and peace and conflict studies at the Universities of Paris, Sydney, and Hong Kong. She worked as Academic Programme Associate for the United Nations University's Peace and Governance Programme, where she directed a project on the ethics of international human rights and humanitarian NGOs. She lectured at Sydney University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, and was then Senior Associate Professor of Philosophy and Peace Studies at the International Christian University of Japan in Tokyo. Most recently, she has been a Senior Researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) at the University of Tampere in Tampere, Finland. She has published Human Rights in Crisis: The Sacred and the Secular in Contemporary French Thought (2005), The Burden of Democracy: The Claims of Culture and Public Culture (2012), and A Study in Transborder Ethics: Justice, Citizenship, Civility (2012). Her latest research interests include contemporary ethics, philosophical anthropology and religion, and the phenomenology of violence. E-mail: souillacg@orange.fr