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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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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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Document Volumes and the Status of Victim Testimony in the Era of the First World War and Its Aftermath

Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2015
This article focuses on a prominent type of atrocity literature, the document volume, and the status accorded victim testimony within such volumes. Whereas scholars have tended to treat Holocaust testimony, Armenian genocide testimony, and the atrocity ...
Alexandra Garbarini
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Mass Atrocity Prevention: Forever Elusive or Potentially Achievable?

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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Institutional Responsibility for Mass Atrocity Crimes with Thomas Pogge

Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2020
Humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) are currently limited and encumbered by a pervasive absence of a political will. In states’ calculations, political considerations are constantly winning-out over the moral considerations ...
Jed Lea-Henry
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Understanding Mass Atrocity Prevention during Periods of Democratic Transition

Politics and Governance, 2015
The purpose of this article is to provide a better understanding of why some countries experience mass atrocities during periods of democratic transition, while others do not.
Stephen McLoughlin
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The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944

Media and Communication, 2014
This manuscript investigates the facts of publication of the images of the Nanking Atrocity (December 1937–January 1938) in LIFE and LOOK magazines, two widely read United States publications, as well as the Nanking atrocity film clips that circulated to
Gary Evans
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Preventing Mass Atrocities: Ideological Strategies and Interventions

Politics and Governance, 2015
Both scholars and international actors frequently stress the important role played by anti-civilian ideologies in escalating risks of mass atrocities against civilians. Yet strategies to combat and counter anti-civilian ideologies remain an uncertain and
Jonathan Leader Maynard
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Africa, paving the way: Lessons from African actors pushing forward the international community’s role and responsibility in addressing genocide by Iseult Daly

Contemporary Challenges
Currently, international collective security and peace institutions are weathering a deep crisis in legitimacy for their systematic inability to protect populations from devastating genocides such as those ongoing Palestine, Sudan and the DRC. This essay
Iseult Daly
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‘It is not a topic that should be assessed by a test’: Understanding teachers' assessment literacy in the teaching of ‘difficult histories’ such as the Holocaust

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores how history teachers in secondary education in England (a) see their role as assessors and (b) how they make decisions about assessing a difficult history: learning about the Holocaust. Assessment literacy (AL) is recognised as a potentially valuable aspect of good teaching and central to supporting students' learning ...
Mary Richardson, Rebecca Hale, Tom Haward, Kwaku Adjepong   +3 more
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