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Fear and grokking on the war crimes trail

By Wendy Grossman

29 March 2003

Patrick Ball took his BA in sociology from Columbia in 1988, and his PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1998 (“it took 10 years because I was never there”). The 25-year-old Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science grew out of the scientific solidarity between scientists in the “free world” and the “unfree world”. Ball has published reports for the AAAS on human rights and databases which are available at http://shr.aaas.org/ under “publications”.

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