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Stopping Mass Atrocities: Targeting the Dictator
Politics and Governance, 2015 The international community has determined it carries the responsibility to protect civilians from atrocity crimes if a state is unable or unwilling to do so.
Maartje Weerdesteijn
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Politics and Governance, 2015 The concept of “triggers” enjoys wide usage in the atrocity prevention policymaking community. However, the concept has received limited academic analysis.
Scott Straus
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Discover Artificial Intelligence, 2023 The memorialization of mass atrocities such as war crimes and genocides facilitates the remembrance of past suffering, honors those who resisted the perpetrators, and helps prevent the distortion of historical facts. Digital technologies have transformed
Mykola Makhortykh +4 more
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From Kosovo Rush to Mass Atrocities’ Hush. German Debates since Unification
Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2022 Germany’s involvement in the Kosovo War marked its first active participation in combat operations since the Second World War. For many observers at the time, the intervention represented a fundamental policy shift in the West, and in Germany in ...
Hering Robin, Stahl Bernhard
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Mass Atrocities and Their Prevention [PDF]
Journal of Economic Literature, 2021 Counting conservatively, data show about 100 million mass atrocity-related deaths since 1900. A distinct empirical phenomenon, mass atrocities are events of enormous scale, severity, and brutality, occur in wartime and in peacetime, are geographically widespread, occur with surprising frequency, under various systems of governance, and can be long ...
Anderton, Charles H., Brauer, Jurgen
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Information interventions and social media
Internet Policy Review, 2021 Recent conflicts, particularly in Asia and Africa, have highlighted the potential for social media to provoke or exacerbate violent conflict and mass atrocities.
Giovanni De Gregorio, Nicole Stremlau
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, 1999 The twentieth century has been labelled the 'century of genocide', and according to estimates, more than 250 million civilians were victims of genocide and mass atrocities during this period.
Mayersen, Deborah, Pohlman, Annie
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Eliminating Rivals, Managing Rivalries: a Comparison of Robert Mugabe and Kenneth Kaunda [PDF]
, 2016 is article seeks to explore the role that leadership plays in both the perpetration and avoidance of mass atrocities. Many scholars have argued that leadership is pivotal to the outbreak of such violence but there is almost no scholarship which explores ...
McLoughlin, Stephen +1 more
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Understanding Mass Atrocity Prevention during Periods of Democratic Transition
Politics and Governance, 2015 The purpose of this article is to provide a better understanding of why some countries experience mass atrocities during periods of democratic transition, while others do not.
Stephen McLoughlin
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By All Means Necessary: Protecting Civilians and Preventing Mass Atrocities in Africa
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2020 This contribution provides a review of the collective volume "By All Means Necessary: Protecting Civilians and Preventing Mass Atrocities in Africa" edited by Dan Kuwali and Frans Viljoen.
Michael Laubscher
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