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International sentencing in the context of collective violence [PDF]

, 2007
This article evaluates some of the theoretical and practical arguments which suggest that the potential for international trial justice to make a significant contribution towards reconciliation and peace following mass atrocity is limited. Conversely, it
Henham, R
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Child Murder in Nazi Germany: The Memory of Nazi Medical Crimes and Commemoration of “Children’s Euthanasia” Victims at Two Facilities (Eichberg, Kalmenhof)

Societies, 2012
Nazi Germany’s “children’s euthanasia” was a unique program in the history of mankind, seeking to realize a social Darwinist vision of a society by means of the systematic murder of disabled children and youths.
Lutz Kaelber
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The climate atrocity paradigm

Earth System Governance
Unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions threaten countless lives worldwide, yet conventional terminology such as “global warming” or “climate disruption” fail to capture the human suffering involved, whereas terms like “climate crisis” misleadingly ...
Gaspard Lemaire
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Mindful violence? Responses to the Rambo series' shifting aesthetic of aggression [PDF]

, 2012
Rambo (2008) marked the return of Sylvester Stallone's iconic action hero. What is most striking about the fourth film (as the response from reviewers testifies), is its graphic violence.
Ayers Drew, Cerulo Karen, Jacobs Jason, Jeffords Susan, Kellner Douglas, Lichtenfeld Eric, Louvre Alf, Nishimie Lelani, Rowe John Carlos, Rutherford Jonathan, Steve Jones, Tasker Yvonne   +11 more
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Post-Intervention Reconstruction and the Responsibility to Rebuild

Social Sciences, 2022
This article examines the relationship between the responsibility to rebuild and post-intervention reconstruction. It aims to determine whether the current interpretation of the responsibility to rebuild is the appropriate framework for attaining the ...
Athanasios Stathopoulos
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When Research Serves Good Purposes

Voices in Bioethics, 2021
Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash INTRODUCTION It is a classic ethical dilemma to have something of potential value that comes at a tremendous cost to others.[1]  To access the good, you must have the bad.
Kenneth Kirkwood
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Freedom From Torture in the "War on Terror": Is it Absolute? [PDF]

, 2011
Freedom from torture is regarded as “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes which would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security.
Turner, Ian David
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Genocide in the Lachin corridor? An investigation into the frameworks and conditions of atrocity crimes

Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies
The Azerbaijani blockade of the Lachin corridor isolated 120,000 ethnic Armenians, including 30,000 children, living in Nagorno-Karabakh. For nine months, the region experienced shortages of water, electricity, medicine, and food.
Sophia King
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Grand Theft Auto IV Considered as an Atrocity Exhibition

Eludamos, 2008
This review outlines the intersections between Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto IV" (2008) and the British novelist J.G. Ballard's experimental text "The Atrocity Exhibition".
Martin Pichlmair
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Picturing the perpetrator [PDF]

, 2012
There is considerable potential in examining images associated with atrocity that do not depict the actual act of violence or the victim itself, but rather depict the circumstances around which such acts occurred.
Lowe, Paul
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