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Why the United Nations Underperforms at Preventing Mass Atrocities

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018
If the United Nations always succeeded or never succeeded in preventing atrocity crimes, then there would be no point in trying to improve its performance. Instead, its track record has been remarkably uneven.
Edward C. Luck
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Scenarios of Intractability: Reframing Intractable Conflict and Its Transformation

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2019
For those working toward long-term conflict transformation and atrocity prevention, cases of so-called “intractable conflict” are an enduring source of frustration, continually resisting what seems to be an otherwise useful toolbox of "lessons learnt ...
Kerry Whigham
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Genocide Studies and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Contemporary Case of the French National Railways (SNCF)

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2017
Genocide studies considers the accountability various of perpetrators, as well as the needs mass atrocity creates. The inclusion of market actors, however, remains marginalized.
Sarah Federman
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The past is a foreign country

Oñati Socio-Legal Series
International criminal investigations are not only legal exercises but epistemological and cultural ones. Drawing on the author’s work across human rights practice, international tribunals, journalism and historical scholarship, this essay observes that ...
Thijs B. Bouwknegt
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Holding Back the Tide: Genocide Prevention in Our More Violent World

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018
For all the progress that was made in building barriers against genocide – and we should not shy away from acknowledging that significant progress was indeed made – we find ourselves facing a major problem. History is taking its revenge.
Alex J. Bellamy
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Punishing Atrocity Crimes in Transitional Contexts: Advancing Discussions on Adequacy of Alternative Criminal Sanctions Using the Case of Colombia. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud, 2023
Mayans-Hermida BE, Holá B.
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The Problem Is Not (Merely) Mass Incarceration: Incarceration as a Bioethical Crisis and Abolition as a Moral Obligation. [PDF]

Hastings Cent Rep, 2023
James JE.
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THE EMERGENCE OF MASS ATROCITY CONCEPTS: REFLECTIONS ON GENOCIDE, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, WAR CRIMES AND ETHNIC CLEANSING

Armenian Folia Anglistika
The article commences with a brief listing of some of the key words and phrases used in journalistic accounts in the 1915 New York Times about the mass deportations and killings of ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
Alan Whitehorn
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Unsettling Redemption: The Ethics of Intrasubjectivity in The Act of Killing

MediaTropes, 2017
The documentary The Act of Killing adopts a novel experimental approach to mass atrocity. Perpetrators of Cold War era anti-communist purges in Indonesia are invited to narrate their acts through familiar film genres.
Sara Kendall
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Genocide narratives as narratives-in-dialogue [PDF]

Journal of Regional Security, 2015
This article aims to expand narrative analysis in International Relations (IR) by exploring narratives in mutual dialogue. The purpose is to move narrative analysis away from mostly static approaches that focus on speech or other performative acts ...
Subotić Jelena
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