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Mass Atrocity Prevention: Forever Elusive or Potentially Achievable? [PDF]

Politics and Governance, 2015
This editorial introduces the special issue, and considers what the articles in it tell us about the prospects of mass atrocity prevention.
Karen E. Smith
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Triggers of Mass Atrocities

Politics and Governance, 2015
The concept of “triggers” enjoys wide usage in the atrocity prevention policymaking community. However, the concept has received limited academic analysis.
Scott Straus
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Stopping Mass Atrocities: Targeting the Dictator

Politics and Governance, 2015
The international community has determined it carries the responsibility to protect civilians from atrocity crimes if a state is unable or unwilling to do so.
Maartje Weerdesteijn
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The climate atrocity paradigm

Earth System Governance
Unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions threaten countless lives worldwide, yet conventional terminology such as “global warming” or “climate disruption” fail to capture the human suffering involved, whereas terms like “climate crisis” misleadingly ...
Gaspard Lemaire
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The Viability of the “Responsibility to Prevent” [PDF]

Politics and Governance, 2015
The efficacy of the Responsibility to Prevent suffers from two key problems; causal indeterminacy, and a dependence on the political will of states, particularly the permanent five members of the Security Council.
Aidan Hehir
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Mass Atrocities and Their Prevention [PDF]

Journal of Economic Literature, 2021
Counting conservatively, data show about 100 million mass atrocity-related deaths since 1900. A distinct empirical phenomenon, mass atrocities are events of enormous scale, severity, and brutality, occur in wartime and in peacetime, are geographically widespread, occur with surprising frequency, under various systems of governance, and can be long ...
Anderton, Charles H., Brauer, Jurgen
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“Only Time Will Tell”: The Underexplored Impacts of Lead Poisoning and COVID-19 on Pre-Existing ACEs in New York

Youth, 2023
The peak of the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) in New York City significantly impacted communities that lived in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
Lorenz S. Neuwirth, Kerry Whigham
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The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Problem of Political Will [PDF]

Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2018
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was created in the hope of overcoming the barrier that state sovereignty, as a principle, had become to actions of humanitarian intervention. It was imagined that as mass atrocity crimes were coming to the attention of
Jed Lea-Henry
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GQ9 Is Ignoring Hunger Comparable with Ignoring Genocide? Review of Eyal Mayroz’s Reluctant Interveners

World Nutrition, 2019
Eyal Mayroz’s book, Reluctant Interveners, focuses on how public opinion shapes and is shaped by the US government’s response to genocide, a type of mass atrocity. Mass atrocity is defined here as widespread avoidable harm.
George Kent
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The responsibility to protect human rights and the RtoP: prospective and retrospective responsibility [PDF]

, 2015
This article argues that -- contrary to the way that it is often framed -- the first pillar of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) is not best understood as an instantiation of a broader international responsibility to protect human rights. Firstly, the
Karp, David Jason
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