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Problems from Hell, Solution in the Heavens?: Identifying Obstacles and Opportunities for Employing Geospatial Technologies to Document and Mitigate Mass Atrocities

Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2013
At the evolving frontier of modern humanitarianism, non-governmental organizations are using satellite technology to monitor mass atrocities. As a documentation tool, satellites have the potential to collect important real-time evidence for alleged war ...
Ben Yunmo Wang, Nathaniel Raymond, Gabrielle Gould, Isaac Baker   +3 more
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Beyond Distinction: Private Art Museums and Their Versatile Role for Elites' (Self)Legitimization Discourses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva, Kristina Kolbe, Olav Velthuis   +2 more
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Milgram Revisited: Can We still Use Milgram’s ‘Obedience to Authority’ Experiments to Explain Mass Atrocities after the Opening of the Archives? Review Essay

Journal of Perpetrator Research, 2020
Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments were conducted more than 50 years ago and can undoubtfully be considered one of the most important but also most controversial studies ever conducted.
Alette Smeulers
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Jared F. Edgerton, Evelyn Gertz   +3 more
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Remembrance of Things Past? The Relationship of Past to Future in Pursuing Justice in Mediation [PDF]

, 2004
In this Article I seek to explore, not resolve, some of the issues and tensions in the role of temporality in achieving justice through mediative processes and to suggest some correctives at the practice level, as well as encourage some deeper thinking ...
Menkel-Meadow, Carrie
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Prophets and Priests of the Nation: Naguib Mahfouz’s Karnak Café and the 1967 Crisis in Egypt [PDF]

, 2009
Similarities between religion and nationalism are well known but not well understood. They can be explained by drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theory in order to consider symbolic interests and the strategies employed to advance them.
Abdel-Malek, al-Din, al-Hakim, al-Hakim, al-Sakkut, al-ʿAziz, Amaldi, Anderson, Apter, Armbrust, Baron, Beinin, Bell, Benjamin Geer, Billig, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Breuilly, Brown, Crone, El-Enany, Fauconnier, Gassick, Gellner, Gershoni, Gordon, Hobsbawm, Hopwood, Idris, Jacquemond, Jacquemond, Jankowski, Kedourie, Laurens, Lecker, Lefevere, Mahfouz, Mahfouz, Mahfouz, Mahmood, Mehrez, Rizq, Schulze, Shadi, Shafik, Shukrallah, Smart, Stagh, Swartz, Tulard, Vatikiotis, Wickham, Winock, Yunis, ʿ   +59 more
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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
wiley   +1 more source

Transitional Justice and Forensic Exhumations: Reconciling Post-Conflict Violence in Spain

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
After the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), Francisco Franco's dictatorship left a lasting imprint on Spain, with his narrative reflected in monuments and mass graves.
Natalia Maystorovich Chulio
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"If I look at the mass I will never act" [PDF]

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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Germany’s Politics and Bureaucracy for Preventing Atrocities

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018
As of June 2017, this is official German government policy, adopted by the federal cabinet as the highest executive organ in its “Guidelines on Preventing Crises, Resolving Conflicts, Building Peace.” Compared to earlier policy documents, the ambition ...
Sarah Brockmeier, Philipp Rotmann
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