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A Core National Security Interest: Framing Atrocities Prevention
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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Our research question is: Do state-sponsored genocides and mass atrocities disrupt trade? In the “conflict disrupts trade” literature there is substantial research on how interstate and intrastate conflict and terrorism affect trade, but very little ...
Charles H. Anderton, Roxane A. Anderton
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The responsibility to protect human rights and the RtoP: prospective and retrospective responsibility [PDF]
This article argues that -- contrary to the way that it is often framed -- the first pillar of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) is not best understood as an instantiation of a broader international responsibility to protect human rights. Firstly, the
Karp, David Jason
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Forensic Science for Cambodian Justice [PDF]
Cambodia is universally associated with its killing fields – a horrific inheritance from the Khmer Rouge era. Whilst mass grave evidence from that era is referred to in history and social science publications on Cambodia, it has not featured in a legal
Klinkner, Melanie Josefine
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Moving Upstream and Going Local: The Responsibility to Protect Ten Years Later
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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Mass Atrocity Prevention: Forever Elusive or Potentially Achievable?
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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This chapter examines a postcard which is readily available at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. As an object of international criminal law, the postcard reveals a great deal about the aims of international criminal law, and ...
Rigney, Sophie
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Promoting Reconciliation through Exhuming and Identifying Victims in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide [PDF]
Drawing upon interviews conducted with 24 Kibuye-based survivors, as well as GOR officials from around Rwanda, the paper argues that survivors — while appreciative of any effort to memorialize the 1994 genocide — are negotiating psychological and ...
Jessee, Erin
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Lessons Learned from the Holocaust and the Contemporary Genocide
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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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.
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