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Humor defuses an interrogation in San Salvador: As calmly as I could, I pushed a photo of myself in clown make-up across the table, and pulled out an animal modeling balloon that I kept in my bag. Even as I began to inflate it I could feel the tension in the room subside. The shouts and jeers died away. By the time the rubber was twisted into the shape of a dog, the atmosphere had been transformed. Can I have a green one? one of my interrogators asked, Do you make rabbits? opendemocracy.net/transformation/michael-nagler-karen-ridd/humor-but-not-humiliation-finding-sweet-spot-in-nonviolent-
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 14:34:14 +0000

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