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State violence attempts to marginalize groups, attacking them deliberately in particularly racial, gendered, religious, economic and other ways.

Survivor care is a massive and essential responsibility for us all.

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Networks of people—lawyers, recordkeepers, officers and bureaucrats--make state torture possible. Let them know we are watching.

• Policing, military, detention, prisons: Track organizational cultures of capture and confinement, of discretion as violence and domination.

• Administrative teams, incentives and permission structures: Analyze the legal and bureaucratic systems, constraints and protocols that reward or support systematic harm.

• Security narratives, interorganizational commerce and exchange: Identify markets for force and geopolitical alliances for training and equipment.

• Public complicity and support: Challenge political discussion and media conventions that misname, euphemize, or evade.

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Be part of a dedicated community. Attending to the networks and social functions of torture deepens understanding of our own complicity. It empowers us to move the work of accountability forward.

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