Ubuntu and the journey of listening to the Rwandan genocide story
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015 In the face of collective trauma such as genocide, apartheid, mass killings and xenophobia,ubuntu requires of us to show solidarity with our fellow human beings. To my mind, one of the highest forms of doing so is to open up spaces of authentic listening
Anna-Marie de Beer
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International Courts in Atypical Political Environments: The Interplay of Prosecutorial Strategy, Evidence, and Court Authority in International Criminal Law [PDF]
, 2016 International ...
Dezalay, Sara, Hagan, John, Levi, Ron
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Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
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Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda
Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello +5 more
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Fossil modernity and climate atrocity
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsModern infrastructures, lifestyles, and thought patterns are deeply intertwined with fossil fuel consumption. Yet, this pervasive reliance drives unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in the deliberate and systematic infliction of large-scale
Gaspard Lemaire
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Transitional justice and peacebuilding on the ground [PDF]
, 2012 Policy brief drawing on the research conducted as part of a grant from the US Institute of Peace (USIP 002-09F) on victim-centred approaches to justice and DDR ...
Martin-Ortega, Olga
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The Epistemic Harms of Botched Apologies for Past Wrongs
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Apologies often create expectations of meaningful change and repair. Yet when institutions or states deliver apologies for past wrongs that lack substantive reparative action, they risk deepening, rather than redressing, the harms they acknowledge.
Abraham Tobi
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Politics and Governance, 2015 Observers have classified the European Union (EU) as reluctant in its implementation of the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) (Task Force on the EU Prevention of Mass Atrocities, 2013). This contribution revisits that argument by employing a more nuanced
Chiara De Franco, Annemarie Peen Rodt
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'The Accidental Birth of Hate Crime in Transnational Criminal Law: 'Discrepancies' in the Prosecution for "Incitement to Genocide" during the Nuremberg Process involving the cases of Julius Streicher, Hans Fritzsche and Carl Schmitt.' [PDF]
, 2013 This volume of three interrelated studies aims to explore the various contingencies through which individuals responsible, to various degrees, for promoting expressions of racist hate were subjected to markedly different types of legal responses within ...
Eastwood, Maggi +2 more
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Who Cares: Why the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Matters (More) to Some EU Member States
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract What drives the salience of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict amongst EU member states? This article employs domestic foreign policy theories to explain the factors underlying variation in salience, estimated analysing all country statements made at the United Nations General Assembly between 1993 and 2017.
Valerio Vignoli +2 more
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