Ron Dudai
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 297915 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ron Dudai |
| NOMBRES | Ron |
| APELLIDO | Dudai |
| FIRMA | DUDAI R |
| AFILIACIONES | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0660-0704 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions
Co-Conspirators in Murder’
∞ As transitional justice becomes focused on transitions out of identity-based conflicts, the ability of interventions to transcend partisan approaches and be perceived as legitimate by all sides has become a key challenge. Meta-conflicts – conflicts over what the conflict was about – often obstruct efforts of dealing with the past. This note explores ways to eschew the common zero-sum game of condemning one party or the other, based on the 2024 …
Lessons from Northern Ireland” in Israeli Public Discourse
The Northern Ireland 1998 Good Friday Agreement has generated a global industry of “lessons from Northern Ireland” to other conflict situations. While a lively polemical literature has been debating what exactly should these lessons be and whether they could be validly exported, this article adopts the prism of the “politics of comparison”: examining why and how certain actors appeal to analogies with other societies, and the causes and functions…
Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the prospects of global abolition
There is a growing position among human rights advocates, academics and UN officials, predicting “the death of the death penalty”, and forecasting that it will completely disappear soon. This article questions and problematizes this prediction, exploring the assumptions, premises and gaps that underpin the optimistic outlook. Based on analysis of abolitionist discourse, three fallacies are identified and analyzed: a progressive fallacy, assuming …
The Life and Times of Human Rights Organizations
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Informer
This essay starts by accepting Cécile Fabre's argument in her book Spying through a Glass Darkly that intelligence work, including using incentives and pressures to encourage betrayal and treason, can be morally justified based on the criteria of necessity, effectiveness, and proportionality. However, while assessments of spying tend to be based on Cold War notions, I explore it here in the messier reality of counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, …
Penality in the Underground
Secret informers are often the biggest threat faced by underground rebel groups, which must respond to this challenge in order to survive. Using the IRA as a case-study, Penality in the Underground offers a systematic, in-depth, analysis of this phenomenon, providing an empirical and theoretical account of the causes, forms, functions and effects of the underground response to informers. While superficial media images tend to depict only ruthless…
Exception, Symbolism and Compromise
This article explores the causes, forms and consequences of the resilience of treason as a capital offence. Though generally overlooked by the literature on the death penalty, treason has been the second most common capital offence—after murder—in states’ law books in the post-WWII world and has had tangible effects on abolition trajectories. The article first traces the transformation of treason from the paradigmatic capital offence in the pre-m…
Transitional justice as social control
This article offers an interpretation of transitional justice policies - the efforts of post-conflict and post-dictatorship societies to address the legacy of past abuses - as a form of social control. While transitional justice is commonly conceptualized as responding to a core problem of impunity, this article argues that such formulation is too narrow and leads to lack of coherence in the analysis of the diverse array of transitional mechanism…
Human Rights in the Populist Era
A response to Philip Alston’s lecture ‘The Populist Challenge to Human Rights’
Underground penality
This article seeks to open a novel venue for punishment and society scholarship: the penal logics of armed groups – non-state actors engaged in direct struggle with the state agencies that normally carry out criminal justice. Though many armed groups establish penal systems, applying to their members or the communities under their influence, this issue has thus far not received adequate attention in criminological literature. In exploring this ph…
Entryism, mimicry and victimhood work
While human rights have traditionally been seen mainly as a tool used by underprivileged or disadvantaged groups for progressive causes, they are increasingly being deployed, across the world, by conservative and illiberal civil society groups. Using the case study of the recent adoption of human rights discourse by some right-wing groups in Israel, and utilising social movements literature, this article seeks to analyse how and to what ends huma…
Restraint, Reaction, and Penal Fantasies
What role does the death penalty play in contexts of protracted political violence? What does it symbolize for its opponents and proponents in such contexts? Can it survive as a potent topic of political life even without actual executions? Since 1967, the death penalty has been a lawful sanction in Israel's military courts, which have jurisdiction over Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Though it has never been carried out, it has been in…
Introduction--Rights Choices
From the outside, the work of human rights activists can seem to have an absolutist quality. The public claims and demands of human rights organizations and movements appear coherent and uncompromising, clearly articulating the right and wrong of a given situation or policy, unambiguously demanding a remedy, showing little doubt, speaking truth to power; human rights may be the weapon of the weak, but they are claimed with confidence and certaint…
Thinking Critically about Armed Groups and Human Rights Praxis
This article critically examines the relationship between the human rights movement and armed groups. Drawing upon a wide array of case studies, it examines some of the most important legal and policy developments which have shaped this field since the 1980s. It also critically explores some of the theoretical and practical models of interventions which have been deployed by different human rights organizations concerning abuses by armed groups. …
Informers and the Transition in Northern Ireland
Though criminological literature has paid attention to the use of informers in ordinary law enforcement, there is a research gap regarding their usage in contexts of conflict and political violence. This article explores the social, political and security functions of IRA informers in the transition from conflict in Northern Ireland. Based on that experience, it develops four heuristic models regarding informers that the paper argues may be of di…
Closing the gap
The question of whether non-state armed groups could and should provide reparations to their victims has been largely overlooked. It argues that, while the question is fraught with legal, conceptual, and practical difficulties, there are some circumstances in which armed groups are capable of providing measures of reparations to their victims. The article identifies the issue of attacks on informers as one potential area for armed groups to provi…
Climate Change and Human Rights Practice
Climate change has become a prominent issue in world affairs, but is yet to be taken on board by the human rights community. While on the one hand it is clear that climate change will have adverse effects on the enjoyment of human rights, it is less clear whether human rights organizations are best-placed to campaign against it and whether the incorporation of climate change into the mandates of human rights organizations would be a wise and effe…
The Long View
Books under review in this essay: Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International, by Stephen Hopgood. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 272 pp. $19.95 paperback. Bury the Chains: T
A Model for Dealing with the Past in the Israeli Palestinian Context
This article explores the potential applicability of transitional justice ideas to the Israeli–Palestinian context. I argue that given the particularities of the Israeli–Palestinian setting, truth and reconciliation would be an essential component of peacemaking even though this is an inter-societal conflict which will likely be resolved only through separation into two states. Nevertheless, the interstate nature creates challenges to the applica…
Triangle of Betrayal
This article addresses the phenomenon of collaboration and societal reaction to it in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The authors identify a "triangle of betrayal": the Palestinian collaborators' betrayal of their communities; the betrayal of the communities who often use the label of collaboration as a pretext for abuses; and the betrayal of the Israeli government who often receives services from the collaborators and later abandons them to the…
A to Z of Abuses
Through No Fault of Their Own
Through No Fault of Their Own: Punitive House Demolitions During the al-Aqsa Intifada, by Ronen Shnayderman (B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in The Occupied Territories, Dec. 2004) [translated from Hebrew by Zvi Shulman].
Understanding perpetrators in genocides and mass atrocities
Human Rights Dilemmas in Using Informers to Combat Terrorism
Using informers is a basic tool in preventing terror attacks and the nature of current terror threats makes it even more crucial. This use, however, often leads to human rights violations, both of the informers and by them, and to many problematic ethical questions. Drawing on the Israeli–Palestinian example—where a main strategy of Israeli intelligence activity in the Palestinian areas has been an extensive use of informers—this article presents…
Restraint, Reaction, and Penal Fantasies
What role does the death penalty play in contexts of protracted political violence? What does it symbolize for its opponents and proponents in such contexts? Can it survive as a potent topic of political life even without actual executions? Since 1967, the death penalty has been a lawful sanction in Israel's military courts, which have jurisdiction over Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Though it has never been carried out, it has been in…
Triangle of Betrayal
This article addresses the phenomenon of collaboration and societal reaction to it in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The authors identify a "triangle of betrayal": the Palestinian collaborators' betrayal of their communities; the betrayal of the communities who often use the label of collaboration as a pretext for abuses; and the betrayal of the Israeli government who often receives services from the collaborators and later abandons them to the…
Introduction--Rights Choices
From the outside, the work of human rights activists can seem to have an absolutist quality. The public claims and demands of human rights organizations and movements appear coherent and uncompromising, clearly articulating the right and wrong of a given situation or policy, unambiguously demanding a remedy, showing little doubt, speaking truth to power; human rights may be the weapon of the weak, but they are claimed with confidence and certaint…
Transitional justice as social control
This article offers an interpretation of transitional justice policies - the efforts of post-conflict and post-dictatorship societies to address the legacy of past abuses - as a form of social control. While transitional justice is commonly conceptualized as responding to a core problem of impunity, this article argues that such formulation is too narrow and leads to lack of coherence in the analysis of the diverse array of transitional mechanism…
Entryism, mimicry and victimhood work
While human rights have traditionally been seen mainly as a tool used by underprivileged or disadvantaged groups for progressive causes, they are increasingly being deployed, across the world, by conservative and illiberal civil society groups. Using the case study of the recent adoption of human rights discourse by some right-wing groups in Israel, and utilising social movements literature, this article seeks to analyse how and to what ends huma…
Informers and the Transition in Northern Ireland
Though criminological literature has paid attention to the use of informers in ordinary law enforcement, there is a research gap regarding their usage in contexts of conflict and political violence. This article explores the social, political and security functions of IRA informers in the transition from conflict in Northern Ireland. Based on that experience, it develops four heuristic models regarding informers that the paper argues may be of di…
Lessons from Northern Ireland” in Israeli Public Discourse
The Northern Ireland 1998 Good Friday Agreement has generated a global industry of “lessons from Northern Ireland” to other conflict situations. While a lively polemical literature has been debating what exactly should these lessons be and whether they could be validly exported, this article adopts the prism of the “politics of comparison”: examining why and how certain actors appeal to analogies with other societies, and the causes and functions…
Thinking Critically about Armed Groups and Human Rights Praxis
This article critically examines the relationship between the human rights movement and armed groups. Drawing upon a wide array of case studies, it examines some of the most important legal and policy developments which have shaped this field since the 1980s. It also critically explores some of the theoretical and practical models of interventions which have been deployed by different human rights organizations concerning abuses by armed groups. …
Closing the gap
The question of whether non-state armed groups could and should provide reparations to their victims has been largely overlooked. It argues that, while the question is fraught with legal, conceptual, and practical difficulties, there are some circumstances in which armed groups are capable of providing measures of reparations to their victims. The article identifies the issue of attacks on informers as one potential area for armed groups to provi…
Human Rights Dilemmas in Using Informers to Combat Terrorism
Using informers is a basic tool in preventing terror attacks and the nature of current terror threats makes it even more crucial. This use, however, often leads to human rights violations, both of the informers and by them, and to many problematic ethical questions. Drawing on the Israeli–Palestinian example—where a main strategy of Israeli intelligence activity in the Palestinian areas has been an extensive use of informers—this article presents…
Underground penality
This article seeks to open a novel venue for punishment and society scholarship: the penal logics of armed groups – non-state actors engaged in direct struggle with the state agencies that normally carry out criminal justice. Though many armed groups establish penal systems, applying to their members or the communities under their influence, this issue has thus far not received adequate attention in criminological literature. In exploring this ph…
A Model for Dealing with the Past in the Israeli Palestinian Context
This article explores the potential applicability of transitional justice ideas to the Israeli–Palestinian context. I argue that given the particularities of the Israeli–Palestinian setting, truth and reconciliation would be an essential component of peacemaking even though this is an inter-societal conflict which will likely be resolved only through separation into two states. Nevertheless, the interstate nature creates challenges to the applica…
Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the prospects of global abolition
There is a growing position among human rights advocates, academics and UN officials, predicting “the death of the death penalty”, and forecasting that it will completely disappear soon. This article questions and problematizes this prediction, exploring the assumptions, premises and gaps that underpin the optimistic outlook. Based on analysis of abolitionist discourse, three fallacies are identified and analyzed: a progressive fallacy, assuming …
The Life and Times of Human Rights Organizations
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Informer
This essay starts by accepting Cécile Fabre's argument in her book Spying through a Glass Darkly that intelligence work, including using incentives and pressures to encourage betrayal and treason, can be morally justified based on the criteria of necessity, effectiveness, and proportionality. However, while assessments of spying tend to be based on Cold War notions, I explore it here in the messier reality of counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, …
Exception, Symbolism and Compromise
This article explores the causes, forms and consequences of the resilience of treason as a capital offence. Though generally overlooked by the literature on the death penalty, treason has been the second most common capital offence—after murder—in states’ law books in the post-WWII world and has had tangible effects on abolition trajectories. The article first traces the transformation of treason from the paradigmatic capital offence in the pre-m…
Human Rights in the Populist Era
A response to Philip Alston’s lecture ‘The Populist Challenge to Human Rights’
Understanding perpetrators in genocides and mass atrocities
Human Rights Dilemmas in Using Informers to Combat Terrorism
Using informers is a basic tool in preventing terror attacks and the nature of current terror threats makes it even more crucial. This use, however, often leads to human rights violations, both of the informers and by them, and to many problematic ethical questions. Drawing on the Israeli–Palestinian example—where a main strategy of Israeli intelligence activity in the Palestinian areas has been an extensive use of informers—this article presents…
Through No Fault of Their Own
Through No Fault of Their Own: Punitive House Demolitions During the al-Aqsa Intifada, by Ronen Shnayderman (B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in The Occupied Territories, Dec. 2004) [translated from Hebrew by Zvi Shulman].
Understanding perpetrators in genocides and mass atrocities
A Model for Dealing with the Past in the Israeli Palestinian Context
This article explores the potential applicability of transitional justice ideas to the Israeli–Palestinian context. I argue that given the particularities of the Israeli–Palestinian setting, truth and reconciliation would be an essential component of peacemaking even though this is an inter-societal conflict which will likely be resolved only through separation into two states. Nevertheless, the interstate nature creates challenges to the applica…
Triangle of Betrayal
This article addresses the phenomenon of collaboration and societal reaction to it in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The authors identify a "triangle of betrayal": the Palestinian collaborators' betrayal of their communities; the betrayal of the communities who often use the label of collaboration as a pretext for abuses; and the betrayal of the Israeli government who often receives services from the collaborators and later abandons them to the…
A to Z of Abuses
The Long View
Books under review in this essay: Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International, by Stephen Hopgood. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 272 pp. $19.95 paperback. Bury the Chains: T
Climate Change and Human Rights Practice
Climate change has become a prominent issue in world affairs, but is yet to be taken on board by the human rights community. While on the one hand it is clear that climate change will have adverse effects on the enjoyment of human rights, it is less clear whether human rights organizations are best-placed to campaign against it and whether the incorporation of climate change into the mandates of human rights organizations would be a wise and effe…
Closing the gap
The question of whether non-state armed groups could and should provide reparations to their victims has been largely overlooked. It argues that, while the question is fraught with legal, conceptual, and practical difficulties, there are some circumstances in which armed groups are capable of providing measures of reparations to their victims. The article identifies the issue of attacks on informers as one potential area for armed groups to provi…
Thinking Critically about Armed Groups and Human Rights Praxis
This article critically examines the relationship between the human rights movement and armed groups. Drawing upon a wide array of case studies, it examines some of the most important legal and policy developments which have shaped this field since the 1980s. It also critically explores some of the theoretical and practical models of interventions which have been deployed by different human rights organizations concerning abuses by armed groups. …
Informers and the Transition in Northern Ireland
Though criminological literature has paid attention to the use of informers in ordinary law enforcement, there is a research gap regarding their usage in contexts of conflict and political violence. This article explores the social, political and security functions of IRA informers in the transition from conflict in Northern Ireland. Based on that experience, it develops four heuristic models regarding informers that the paper argues may be of di…
Introduction--Rights Choices
From the outside, the work of human rights activists can seem to have an absolutist quality. The public claims and demands of human rights organizations and movements appear coherent and uncompromising, clearly articulating the right and wrong of a given situation or policy, unambiguously demanding a remedy, showing little doubt, speaking truth to power; human rights may be the weapon of the weak, but they are claimed with confidence and certaint…
Human Rights in the Populist Era
A response to Philip Alston’s lecture ‘The Populist Challenge to Human Rights’
Underground penality
This article seeks to open a novel venue for punishment and society scholarship: the penal logics of armed groups – non-state actors engaged in direct struggle with the state agencies that normally carry out criminal justice. Though many armed groups establish penal systems, applying to their members or the communities under their influence, this issue has thus far not received adequate attention in criminological literature. In exploring this ph…
Entryism, mimicry and victimhood work
While human rights have traditionally been seen mainly as a tool used by underprivileged or disadvantaged groups for progressive causes, they are increasingly being deployed, across the world, by conservative and illiberal civil society groups. Using the case study of the recent adoption of human rights discourse by some right-wing groups in Israel, and utilising social movements literature, this article seeks to analyse how and to what ends huma…
Restraint, Reaction, and Penal Fantasies
What role does the death penalty play in contexts of protracted political violence? What does it symbolize for its opponents and proponents in such contexts? Can it survive as a potent topic of political life even without actual executions? Since 1967, the death penalty has been a lawful sanction in Israel's military courts, which have jurisdiction over Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Though it has never been carried out, it has been in…
Transitional justice as social control
This article offers an interpretation of transitional justice policies - the efforts of post-conflict and post-dictatorship societies to address the legacy of past abuses - as a form of social control. While transitional justice is commonly conceptualized as responding to a core problem of impunity, this article argues that such formulation is too narrow and leads to lack of coherence in the analysis of the diverse array of transitional mechanism…
Exception, Symbolism and Compromise
This article explores the causes, forms and consequences of the resilience of treason as a capital offence. Though generally overlooked by the literature on the death penalty, treason has been the second most common capital offence—after murder—in states’ law books in the post-WWII world and has had tangible effects on abolition trajectories. The article first traces the transformation of treason from the paradigmatic capital offence in the pre-m…
Penality in the Underground
Secret informers are often the biggest threat faced by underground rebel groups, which must respond to this challenge in order to survive. Using the IRA as a case-study, Penality in the Underground offers a systematic, in-depth, analysis of this phenomenon, providing an empirical and theoretical account of the causes, forms, functions and effects of the underground response to informers. While superficial media images tend to depict only ruthless…
Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the prospects of global abolition
There is a growing position among human rights advocates, academics and UN officials, predicting “the death of the death penalty”, and forecasting that it will completely disappear soon. This article questions and problematizes this prediction, exploring the assumptions, premises and gaps that underpin the optimistic outlook. Based on analysis of abolitionist discourse, three fallacies are identified and analyzed: a progressive fallacy, assuming …
The Life and Times of Human Rights Organizations
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Informer
This essay starts by accepting Cécile Fabre's argument in her book Spying through a Glass Darkly that intelligence work, including using incentives and pressures to encourage betrayal and treason, can be morally justified based on the criteria of necessity, effectiveness, and proportionality. However, while assessments of spying tend to be based on Cold War notions, I explore it here in the messier reality of counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, …
Co-Conspirators in Murder’
∞ As transitional justice becomes focused on transitions out of identity-based conflicts, the ability of interventions to transcend partisan approaches and be perceived as legitimate by all sides has become a key challenge. Meta-conflicts – conflicts over what the conflict was about – often obstruct efforts of dealing with the past. This note explores ways to eschew the common zero-sum game of condemning one party or the other, based on the 2024 …
Lessons from Northern Ireland” in Israeli Public Discourse
The Northern Ireland 1998 Good Friday Agreement has generated a global industry of “lessons from Northern Ireland” to other conflict situations. While a lively polemical literature has been debating what exactly should these lessons be and whether they could be validly exported, this article adopts the prism of the “politics of comparison”: examining why and how certain actors appeal to analogies with other societies, and the causes and functions…
From human rights documentation towards arts-based interventions
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