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The Justice and Security Dialogue Project: Building the Resilience of Non-State Actors to Atrocity Crimes

AJIL Unbound, 2019
The doctrine of “responsibility to protect” obliges all states to protect populations from “atrocity crimes”—namely, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing—under three “pillars” of protection.
Colette Rausch
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
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We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
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Representing Childhood and Atrocity

, 2022
Atrocity presents a problem to the writer of children's literature. To represent events of such terrible magnitude and impersonal will as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Rwandan genocide such that they fit into a three-act structure ...

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The past is a foreign country

Oñati Socio-Legal Series
International criminal investigations are not only legal exercises but epistemological and cultural ones. Drawing on the author’s work across human rights practice, international tribunals, journalism and historical scholarship, this essay observes that ...
Thijs B. Bouwknegt
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The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Problem of Political Will [PDF]

Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2018
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was created in the hope of overcoming the barrier that state sovereignty, as a principle, had become to actions of humanitarian intervention. It was imagined that as mass atrocity crimes were coming to the attention of
Jed Lea-Henry
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An intersectional analysis of climate change and atrocity crimes: Life on earth is in crisis

Examining the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and atrocity crimes, this book analyses how gender, race, and species hierarchies shape experiences of and responses to the climate emergency.
Banwell, Stacy
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Atrocity, punishment, and international law /

, 2017
This book argues that accountability for extraordinary atrocity crimes should not uncritically adopt the methods and assumptions of ordinary liberal criminal law.
Drumbl, Mark A.,
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Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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