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Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities

2022
Intentional destruction of cultural heritage has a long history. Contemporary examples include the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, mosques in Xinjiang, China, mausoleums in Timbuktu, Mali, and Greco-Roman remains in Syria. Cultural heritage destruction invariably accompanies assaults on civilians, making heritage attacks impossible to disentangle from ...
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Regionalizing Protection: au and asean Responses to Mass Atrocity Crimes against Internally Displaced Persons

Regionalism and Human Protection, 2016
Forcible displacement can constitute a mass atrocity crime. This is something that is considered within the non-binding Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
Philip C Orchard
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How Mass Atrocities End

2015
Given the brutality of mass atrocities, it is no wonder that one question dominates research and policy: what can we, who are not at risk, do to prevent such violence and hasten endings? But this question skips a more fundamental question for understanding the trajectory of violence: how do mass atrocities actually end? This volume presents an analysis
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Norms and Mass Atrocities

2018
This chapter argues that norms, particularly weak regulative norms such as R2P, have limited influence in cases where actors consider that violating the norm is a matter of existential necessity. States always contend with a plurality and hierarchy of norms, which is itself subject to often sudden fluctuations.
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Trying Tyrants for Mass Atrocity

Alternative Law Journal, 2009
A n extraordinary focus on the criminal responsibility of leaders for mass atrocity has developed since the tentative revival of international criminal law in the early 1990s. Ironically, it was images of emaciated concentration camp detainees in Bosnia reminiscent of Auschwitz — and in Europe’s backyard — that prompted the creation of the first ...
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Making Sense of Mass Atrocity

2009
Genocide, crimes against humanity, and the worst war crimes are possible only when the state or other organisations mobilise and co-ordinate the efforts of many people. Responsibility for mass atrocity is always widely shared, often by thousands. Yet criminal law, with its liberal underpinnings, prefers to blame particular individuals for isolated acts.
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