A chilling global history of the human shield phenomenon. From
Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful
indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation,
from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human
beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or
deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared
with increasing frequency in antinuclear struggles, civil and
environmental protests, and even computer games. The phenomenon,
however, is by no means a new one. Describing the use of human
shields in key historical and contemporary moments across the
globe, Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini demonstrate how the
increasing weaponization of human beings has made the position of
civilians trapped in theaters of violence more precarious and their
lives more expendable. They show how the law facilitates the use of
lethal violence against vulnerable people while portraying it as
humane, but they also reveal how people can and do use their own
vulnerability to resist violence and denounce forms of
dehumanization. Ultimately, Human Shields unsettles our common
ethical assumptions about violence and the law and urges us to
imagine entirely new forms of humane politics.
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