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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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A Dance of Shadows and Fires: Conceptual and Practical Challenges of Intergenerational Healing after Mass Atrocity [PDF]

, 2021
The legacy of mass atrocity – including colonialism, slavery or specific manifestations such as apartheid – continue long after their demise. Applying a temporal inter-generational lens adds complications.
Palmary, Ingrid, Hamber, Brandon
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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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Genocide Myopia: How Reframing Mass Atrocity Could Backfire [PDF]

, 2010
The United States has long viewed genocide and mass atrocity as tragic, moral problems divorced from national interests. This may be changing under the Obama administration, with genocide and mass atrocity being reframed as problems to be solved ...
Cardenas, Sonia
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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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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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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
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Supporting Mental and Public Health Prevention Work in Pre-Atrocity, Atrocity, and Post-Atrocity Settings [PDF]

, 2021
The second event in the Digital Dialogue Series, exploring the various chapters in the book through panels with the contributing authors. Join us for a timely discussion at the intersection of public health, mental health, and mass atrocity prevention in
Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights
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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 ...
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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
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