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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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Mass Atrocity Prevention: Forever Elusive or Potentially Achievable?

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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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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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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“Only Time Will Tell”: The Underexplored Impacts of Lead Poisoning and COVID-19 on Pre-Existing ACEs in New York

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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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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Triggers of Mass Atrocities

Politics and Governance, 2015
The concept of “triggers” enjoys wide usage in the atrocity prevention policymaking community. However, the concept has received limited academic analysis.
Scott Straus
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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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The Reduction of Mass Atrocity Crimes in East Asia: The Evolving Norms of ASEAN's Prevention Mechanisms

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018
ASEAN member states represent a region that has experienced a dramatic reduction in mass atrocity crimes in the last forty years. Scholars have identified three structural explanations for this reduction: the decrease in the use of mass atrocities as a ...
David A. Frank
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