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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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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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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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A shoe, a broken watch and marbles
S: I. M. O. N., 2022 The desire objects, i.e., personal items of the missing or killed found on the site of mass atrocities, are often understood as the last tangible link with the absent person.
Lea David
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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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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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Preventing Mass Atrocities: Ideological Strategies and Interventions
Politics and Governance, 2015 Both scholars and international actors frequently stress the important role played by anti-civilian ideologies in escalating risks of mass atrocities against civilians. Yet strategies to combat and counter anti-civilian ideologies remain an uncertain and
Jonathan Leader Maynard
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A Core National Security Interest: Framing Atrocities Prevention
Politics and Governance, 2015 This essay analyzes President Barack Obama’s communication strategies in his speeches and presidential statements concerning threats of mass atrocities in Libya, Syria, and Iraq from 2011 through 2015. It examines how he has used three rhetorical “frames”
Matthew Levinger
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