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Mass Atrocity Prevention: Forever Elusive or Potentially Achievable? [PDF]
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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The Viability of the “Responsibility to Prevent” [PDF]
Politics and Governance, 2015 The efficacy of the Responsibility to Prevent suffers from two key problems; causal indeterminacy, and a dependence on the political will of states, particularly the permanent five members of the Security Council.
Aidan Hehir
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Critical Genocide Studies and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2019 Critical genocide studies has emerged as an important strand of scholarship devoted to interrogating the core assumptions of the field of genocide studies.
Ernesto Verdeja
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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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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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Why the United Nations Underperforms at Preventing Mass Atrocities
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018 If the United Nations always succeeded or never succeeded in preventing atrocity crimes, then there would be no point in trying to improve its performance. Instead, its track record has been remarkably uneven.
Edward C. Luck
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The purpose of United Nations Security Council practice: Contesting competence claims in the normative context created by the Responsibility to Protect. [PDF]
Eur J Int Relat, 2017 Practice theory provides important insight into the workings of the Security Council. The contribution is currently limited however by the conjecture that practice theory operates on ‘a different analytical plane’ to norm / normative theory (Adler-Nissen
Ralph J, Gifkins J.
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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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Youth, 2023 The peak of the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) in New York City significantly impacted communities that lived in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
Lorenz S. Neuwirth, Kerry Whigham
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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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