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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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Does Type of Violence Matter for Interventions to Mitigate Mass Atrocities?
Journal of Global Security Studies, 2020 Preventing and mitigating mass atrocities is a critical challenge in international security. But international interventions to stop mass atrocities have met with mixed success, and the academic literature offers limited guidance on how to improve this
M. Broache, Kate Cronin-Furman
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Evolving Dynamics Of Intervention To End Atrocities And Secure Accountability; Securing Accountability For Gross Violations Of Human Rights And The Implications Of Non-Intervention: The Lessons Of Cambodia [PDF]
, 2001 The present panel, captioned the Evolving Dynamics of Intervention to End Atrocities and Secure Accountability, analyzes developments in the doctrine of humanitarian intervention and corresponding efforts to secure ...
Tittemore, Brian D.
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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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Calling Genocide by Its Rightful Name: Lemkin\u27s Word, Darfur, and the UN Report [PDF]
, 2006 When the United Nations commission investigating Darfur issued its report in January 2005, it concluded that the Darfur atrocities represented war crimes and crimes against humanity, but not genocide. This had the harmful effect of deflating efforts
Luban, David
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorifying Adolf Hitler influence these feelings. Prior scholars have raised concerns that such materials might communicate distorted images of the past
Lara Ditrich +3 more
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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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International Affairs, 2020 This article examines the impact that three political leaders—Seretse Khama, Kenneth Kaunda and Julius Nyerere—had on navigating the long-term risk associated with mass atrocities.
S. McLoughlin
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The reform of public institutions has attracted sustained attention in both scholarship and policymaking. Increasingly, however, there is growing recognition that reforms are rarely implemented in an institutional vacuum. Instead, new reforms are layered onto existing arrangements, producing hybrid institutional landscapes shaped by prior ...
Edidiong Bassey
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Trayectorias Humanas Trascontinentales, 2023 Unfortunately, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and men who are identified as enemies very often appears as a tool of war. For a long time, SGBV-related atrocities were not perceived as an element of combat, thus they were not ...
Anna Adamska-Gallant
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