Results 21 to 30 of about 450 (215)

Disrupting Legacies of Trauma: Interdisciplinary Interventions for Health and Human Rights [PDF]

Health and Human Rights, 2020
The devastation caused by war and atrocity extends beyond the battlefield and creates conditions with severe public health consequences in affected societies.
Joan Simalchik
doaj  

Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Mass Atrocities, Retributivism, and the Threshold Challenge [PDF]

Res Publica, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to direct attention to a challenge—referred to as the threshold challenge—facing a non-absolutist retributivist view on international criminal justice. It is argued, on the one hand, that this challenge constitutes a practically pertinent problem for the retributivist approach to the punishment of mass crimes and, on the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Fossil modernity and climate atrocity

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Modern infrastructures, lifestyles, and thought patterns are deeply intertwined with fossil fuel consumption. Yet, this pervasive reliance drives unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in the deliberate and systematic infliction of large-scale
Gaspard Lemaire
doaj   +1 more source

Germany’s Politics and Bureaucracy for Preventing Atrocities

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018
As of June 2017, this is official German government policy, adopted by the federal cabinet as the highest executive organ in its “Guidelines on Preventing Crises, Resolving Conflicts, Building Peace.” Compared to earlier policy documents, the ambition ...
Sarah Brockmeier, Philipp Rotmann
doaj   +1 more source

From Kosovo Rush to Mass Atrocities’ Hush. German Debates since Unification

Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2022
Germany’s involvement in the Kosovo War marked its first active participation in combat operations since the Second World War. For many observers at the time, the intervention represented a fundamental policy shift in the West, and in Germany in ...
Hering Robin, Stahl Bernhard
doaj   +1 more source

No Apologies? The Role of Apology for Structural‐Historical Injustice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During this era of political apologies, a new literature has emerged in historical injustice interrogating the relationship between structural and historical injustice, with various theories conceptualising the relationship in different ways. Interestingly, ‘apology’ rarely appears in this literature.
Maeve McKeown
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking the Role of Ideology in Mass Atrocities [PDF]

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2014
There is a widespread sense amongst theorists of genocide and other violent atrocities that ideology matters. But in spite of this agreement all is not well with actual efforts to theorise ideology's role. Theoretical and empirical coverage has been uneven, and there has been little if any effort to incorporate theories and research from the actual ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Nineteen Minutes of Horror: Insights from the Scorpions Execution Video

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018
After the fall of Srebrenica in summer of 1995, the Scorpions unit, dispatched to support the Bosnian Serb Army as it took over the enclave, shot six men in Trnovo. The men, three of whom were underage, were some of thousands of Bosnian Muslims that fell
Iva Vukušić
doaj   +1 more source

Monuments to Injustice and the Ethics of Dark Tourism: A Research Note

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research note aims to motivate philosophical examination of the ethical tensions surrounding ‘dark tourism’ and monuments to injustice. While such monuments function to acknowledge past wrongs, educate the public, and serve reparative functions, their presentation as tourist destinations can undermine these purposes.
Kok‐Chor Tan
wiley   +1 more source