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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 ...
Smith, Karen E.
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The Reduction of Mass Atrocity Crimes in East Asia: The Evolving Norms of ASEAN's Prevention Mechanisms

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018
ASEAN member states represent a region that has experienced a dramatic reduction in mass atrocity crimes in the last forty years. Scholars have identified three structural explanations for this reduction: the decrease in the use of mass atrocities as a ...
David A. Frank
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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. This paper reviews the concept critically, develops a definition, and subjects the concept to empirical analysis. The paper offers a mild endorsement of the concept of triggers of atrocity.
Scott Straus
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Emotions and Mass Atrocity: Philosophical and Theoretical Explanations

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2019
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T. Reifer
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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. These crimes are often perpetrated in authoritarian regimes where they are legitimized through an exclusionary ideology.
Maartje Weerdesteijn
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#StopThisMovie and the Pitfalls of Mass Atrocity Prevention: Framing of Violence and Anticipation of Escalation in Burundi’s Crisis (2015-2017)

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2019
The ongoing Burundi crisis offers a unique opportunity to scrutinize the changing political economy of preventive framing of violence, and particularly genocide as a representational resource in prevention.
A. Purdeková
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Critical Genocide Studies and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2019
Critical genocide studies has emerged as an important strand of scholarship devoted to interrogating the core assumptions of the field of genocide studies.
E. Verdeja
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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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