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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
wiley   +1 more source

Neutrality: A Tool or a Limit for Preventing Mass Atrocitiy Crimes and Genocide? The Case of Switzerland

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Must Longtermists Wish Us All Dead? A Quadrilemma

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Longtermists assign great moral importance to making the long‐term future as good as possible, especially by ensuring the survival of humanity. We argue, to the contrary, that on assumptions that are plausible, conservative, or shared by leading longtermists, human extinction will likely augment total utility among human and non‐human animals ...
Nir Eyal, Bastian Steuwer, Shai Meiri
wiley   +1 more source

Mass Atrocities, Risk and Resilience: Rethinking Prevention (edited volume)

, 2015
'Mass Atrocities, Risk and Resilience' examines the relationship between risk and resilience in the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities and explores two broad areas of neglect.
McLoughlin, Stephen
core   +3 more sources

“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
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking Public Administration Reform: Institutional Layering of Bureaucratic, Managerial and Community Logics Over Time in Nigeria's Tax Administration

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
wiley   +1 more source

The Structural Prevention of Mass Atrocities: Understanding Risk and Resilience

, 2014
This book offers a different approach to the structural prevention of mass atrocities. It investigates the conditions that enable vulnerable countries to prevent the perpetration of such violence.
McLoughlin, Stephen
core   +4 more sources

Cultural competence amidst evidentiary transformations

Oñati Socio-Legal Series
International criminal trials confront many impediments to accurate fact-finding. Some impediments stem from cultural divergences between witnesses, who often hail from the Global South, and courtroom personnel, many of whom hail from the West ...
Nancy Combs
doaj   +1 more source

On the Destruction and Humanitarianisation of the Health System in Gaza and the Need for a Biopolitical Bioethics. [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Salaymeh M, Shahvisi A, Jannesari S.
europepmc   +2 more sources