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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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Without mercy: The immediate impact of group size on lynch mob atrocity [PDF]

, 2007
Two independent research traditions have focused on social contributions to lynching. The sociological power threat hypothesis has argued that lynching atrocity will increase as a function of the relative number of African Americans.
Mullen, Brian, Abrams, Dominic, Leader, Tirza   +2 more
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The Involvement of Corporations in Atrocity Crimes

, 2022
While political and military leaders are generally seen as the most responsible perpetrators, corporations often also have an important role to play in the commission of atrocity crimes.
Huisman, W, Karstedt, Susanne, Van Baar, A, Huisman, W; id_orcid, Susanne, Karstedt, van Baar, Annika   +5 more
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Evaluating the United Nation’s Agenda for Atrocity Prevention: Prospects for the International Regulation of Internal Security

Politics and Governance, 2015
In recent years the UN Secretary-General has promoted mass atrocity prevention as the priority agenda for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) at the UN, redirecting debates on R2P away from military interventionism towards improved state capacity to ...
Cecilia Jacob
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Deconstructing the Epistemic Challenges to Mass Atrocity Prosecutions [PDF]

, 2018
Mass atrocity prosecutions are credited with advancing a host of praiseworthy objectives. They are believed to impose much-needed retribution, deter future atrocities, and affirm the rule of law in previously lawless societies.
Combs, Nancy Amoury
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Emotions and Mass Atrocity: Philosophical and Theoretical Explanations

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2019
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Thomas Reifer
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Is a European Practice of Mass Atrocity Prevention Emerging? The European Union, Responsibility to Protect and the 2011 Libya Crisis

Politics and Governance, 2015
Observers have classified the European Union (EU) as reluctant in its implementation of the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) (Task Force on the EU Prevention of Mass Atrocities, 2013). This contribution revisits that argument by employing a more nuanced
Chiara De Franco, Annemarie Peen Rodt
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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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The Road Not Taken: Failure to Protect from Atrocity Crimes in Myanmar

Groningen Journal of International Law, 2021
In 2005, more than 150 heads of State and government pledged that the world must never witness another Rwanda. They accepted the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) both their own populations, and those of other States from atrocity crimes.
Malina Greta Meret Gepp
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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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