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Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention

2015
In the two-and-a-half decades since the end of the Cold War, policy makers have become acutely aware of the extent to which the world today faces mass atrocities. In an effort to prevent the death, destruction and global chaos wrought by these crimes, the agendas for both national and international policy have grown beyond conflict prevention to ...
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Who Is the Subject of Atrocities Prevention?

Global Responsibility to Protect, 2014
This essay poses the question, who is the subject of atrocities prevention? Borrowing a rhetorical and argumentative model from Jacques Ranciere’s work on the subject of human of rights, the essay explores the conceptual frameworks for the subjects of atrocities and queries their relevance to the specific context of prevention.
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Civilian Trials and the Prevention of Atrocities

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2010
Amitai Etzioni makes a strong case for the judicial treatment of terrorists as separate from criminals or soldiers.
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The “Responsibility to Prevent”: An International Crimes Approach to the Prevention of Mass Atrocities

Ethics & International Affairs, 2014
On September 9, 2013, diplomats and civil society activists gathered in a ballroom in New York to welcome Jennifer Welsh as the UN Secretary-General's new Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP). In her first public appearance in that role, Special Adviser Welsh explained that one of her top priorities would be “to take prevention ...
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Resilient societies and atrocity prevention

2017
What makes societies resilient against genocide and other mass atrocities? Why is it that risk can escalated in some places, but not in others? These are questions which, until relatively recently, scholars have struggled to answer. And these are questions that I have used to spur my own research.
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Prevention of Atrocities Act - Boon or Bane

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
In view of the increasing violence against the downtrodden people in India, the Government of India has enacted one Act to prevent against the weaker section people in the country in 1989. In India, the weaker section people are known as Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
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The ICC and the Prevention of Atrocities: Criminological Perspectives

Human Rights Review, 2016
One of the founding principles of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the prevention of atrocities by punishing those most responsible for them. This paper builds on the literature that has both hailed and critiqued the prospects of the ICC’s ability to deter future atrocities, adding insights from criminology and psychology to enhance the ...
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Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Civil Wars, 2017
The prevention of genocide and mass atrocities remains an important issue, particularly in identifying the most effective ways to avoid the onset of these crimes.
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The public administration imperative of applying an atrocity prevention lens to COVID-19 responses: Leveraging the global pandemic for positive structural change and greater social equity

Administrative Theory and Praxis, 2021
Susan Appe, Nadia Rubaii, Kerry Whigham   +2 more
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The International Law of Atrocity Crime Prevention

2017
Having found that the acts or omissions of states in the Security Council may well be subject to international law, the issue is whether rules exist that would obligate the Security Council members to respond to situations of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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