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THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: ITS RISE AND DEMISE [PDF]

Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2017
The doctrine of Responsibility to protect was developed in order to address the issue of mass atrocities, which were brought about by intrastate and ethnic conflicts as well as oppressive regimes throughout the world. It embraced the idea of the immunity
Dogachan Dagi
doaj  

Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Public inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense‐making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the truth of the fire in which seventy‐two people died. This article interrogates the truth‐seeking and truth‐producing practices of the Inquiry.
JAMIE M. JOHNSON, VICTORIA M. BASHAM, OWEN D. THOMAS   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting Genocide and Mass Atrocities

Genocide Studies and Prevention, 2016
This article examines several current risk assessment and early warning models to predict genocide and mass atrocities. Risk assessment (RA) concerns a country's long -term structural conditions (regime type, state-led discrimination, etc.) that determine overall risk for atrocities.
openaire   +2 more sources

Battle for the People: Ideological Conflict between Soviet Partisans, the German Military, and Ukrainian Nationalists in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine

, 2016
Soviet historiography discusses the People’s War during the Second World War, the idea that all of the Soviet people rallied to the cause and fought off the Nazi invaders, but this is far from the truth. Within the western borderlands of the Soviet Union
Heim, David L.
core  

Legacies of War: Reflections on Culture and Conflict in Contemporary South-East Asia [PDF]

, 2013
2013 essay contest winner Elizabeth Turner\u27s Legacies of War: Reflections on Culture and Conflict in Contemporary South-East ...
Turner, Elizabeth
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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
wiley   +1 more source

Current Apathy for Coming Anarchy: Building the Special Court for Sierra Leone [PDF]

, 2001
Part I of this Article examines the chronology of the decade-long conflict in Sierra Leone. It provides an illuminating backdrop against which the Special Court may be assessed and highlights particular features that the institutional design of the ...
Fritz, Nicole, Smith, Alison
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Improving Intervention Decisions to Prevent Genocide: Less Muddle, More Structure

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018
Decisions to intervene in a foreign country to prevent genocide and mass atrocities are among the most challenging and controversial choices facing national leaders.
Robin Gregory, Michael Harstone, Paul Slovic   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region‐Level Evidence From Former Yugoslavia

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies the long‐term effects of the Yugoslav civil war (1987–1995) on subnational economic growth across 78 regions in five former Yugoslav republics from 1950 to 2015. We construct counterfactual growth trajectories using a robust region‐level donor pool from 32 conflict‐free countries.
Aleksandar Kešeljević, Stefan Nikolić, Rok Spruk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source