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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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The Causes, Dimensions and Paradoxes of the Rohingya Crisis [PDF]
Analele Universităţii din Oradea. Relaţii Internaţionale şi Studii Europene, 2021 The Rohingya Muslims, an ethno-religious minority group from Myanmar, are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. The atrocities committed by Myanmar security forces against the Rohingya, including mass killings, sexual violence and ...
Maria Adriana ŢIBOC
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Why the United Nations Underperforms at Preventing Mass Atrocities
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018 If the United Nations always succeeded or never succeeded in preventing atrocity crimes, then there would be no point in trying to improve its performance. Instead, its track record has been remarkably uneven.
Edward C. Luck
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Daesh’ Atrocities Against Women and Girls and The Necessary Response
Chrześcijaństwo-Świat-Polityka, 2020 Since 2014, Daesh has been perpetrating mass atrocities against the population of Syria and Iraq, and beyond, and especially, crimes targeting religious minorities in Syria and Iraq.
Ewelina U. Ochab
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Mass Atrocity Prevention: Forever Elusive or Potentially Achievable?
Politics and Governance, 2015 This editorial introduces the special issue, and considers what the articles in it tell us about the prospects of mass atrocity prevention.
Karen E. Smith
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Moving Upstream and Going Local: The Responsibility to Protect Ten Years Later
Politics and Governance, 2015 Ten years ago the international community pledged to protect civilians from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by endorsing the responsibility to protect (R2P) doctrine.
Bridget Moix
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Lessons Learned from the Holocaust and the Contemporary Genocide
Review of European and Comparative Law, 2023 The paper is focused on the analysis of the lessons learned from the genocides in the 20th century for the existing situation in Ukraine. Apart from the short overview of the history behind the term genocide and the adoption of the convention for its ...
Mišo Dokmanović
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Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2019 Non-state armed groups (NSAGs) are increasingly responsible for mas atrocities in contemporary armed conflicts. As agents with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, the state has the responsibility to engage NSAGs for peace and security.
Owonikoko B. Saheed +1 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores how history teachers in secondary education in England (a) see their role as assessors and (b) how they make decisions about assessing a difficult history: learning about the Holocaust. Assessment literacy (AL) is recognised as a potentially valuable aspect of good teaching and central to supporting students' learning ...
Mary Richardson +3 more
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A Poggean Reform Agenda for Improving Political Will in Response to Mass Atrocities
Politics in Central Europe, 2018 Like other types of humanitarian intervention before it, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has suffered in practice from a pervasive lack of political will.
Lea-Henry Jed
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