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Are Top-Down Approaches of Transitional Justice Enough to Deliver Justice?
Trento Student Law Review, 2022 The aim of the article is to shed light on the values of transitional justice from below: this peculiar approach fits in the whole process of transition towards democracy, peace, and reconciliation and constitutes a praiseworthy course of action to ...
Davide Toniatti
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
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Mass Atrocities, Retributivism, and the Threshold Challenge [PDF]
Res Publica, 2010 The purpose of this paper is to direct attention to a challenge—referred to as the threshold challenge—facing a non-absolutist retributivist view on international criminal justice. It is argued, on the one hand, that this challenge constitutes a practically pertinent problem for the retributivist approach to the punishment of mass crimes and, on the ...
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Accomplice to Mass Atrocities: The International Community and Indonesia’s Invasion of East Timor
Politics and Governance, 2015 This paper examines early warning of, and political responses to, mass atrocities in East Timor in the late 1970s. Using newly-declassified intelligence and diplomatic records, it describes Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor in 1975 and its three year ...
Clinton Fernandes
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No Apologies? The Role of Apology for Structural‐Historical Injustice
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During this era of political apologies, a new literature has emerged in historical injustice interrogating the relationship between structural and historical injustice, with various theories conceptualising the relationship in different ways. Interestingly, ‘apology’ rarely appears in this literature.
Maeve McKeown
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Rethinking the Role of Ideology in Mass Atrocities [PDF]
Terrorism and Political Violence, 2014 There is a widespread sense amongst theorists of genocide and other violent atrocities that ideology matters. But in spite of this agreement all is not well with actual efforts to theorise ideology's role. Theoretical and empirical coverage has been uneven, and there has been little if any effort to incorporate theories and research from the actual ...
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Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018 The present article aims to confront the Swiss practice regarding the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities in Swiss foreign policy and its particularities shaping its international relations.
Giulia Persoz
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Who Supports the War? And Who Protests? The Legacies of Tzarist Social Divide in Russia
LSE Public Policy Review, 2023 Although Russian studies is a thriving field, there are significant gaps in our knowledge of Russian politics and society. One of the most significant blind spots is how Russian support for the war remains apparently robust, despite the atrocities ...
Tomila Lankina
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Monuments to Injustice and the Ethics of Dark Tourism: A Research Note
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research note aims to motivate philosophical examination of the ethical tensions surrounding ‘dark tourism’ and monuments to injustice. While such monuments function to acknowledge past wrongs, educate the public, and serve reparative functions, their presentation as tourist destinations can undermine these purposes.
Kok‐Chor Tan
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“If I look at the mass I will never act”: Psychic numbing and genocide
Judgment and Decision Making, 2007 Most people are caring and will exert great effort to rescue individual victims whose needy plight comes to their attention. These same good people, however, often become numbly indifferent to the plight of individuals who are “one of many” in a much ...
Paul Slovic
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