What is Suffering Worth? Perspectives Across Disciplines on the Treatment of Victims
La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York CityTo RSVP, please click here. This interdisciplinary symposium explores a crucial but little-studied issue with growing importance today: what is the value of harm suffered by victims, whether of terrorism, crime or natural disasters. In law, politics, economics and public opinion, answers differ widely, and unequal treatment is the norm. Across the globe, victims evoke a range of feelings, from compassion verging…