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Engendering the Responsibility to Protect: Women and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities

Global Responsibility to Protect, 2012
This article explores the relationship between the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the pursuit of the so-called ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS) agenda at the UN. We ask whether the two agendas should continue to be pursued separately or whether each can make a useful contribution to the other.
Davies, Sara, Teitt, Sarah
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Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Civil Wars, 2017
The prevention of genocide and mass atrocities remains an important issue, particularly in identifying the most effective ways to avoid the onset of these crimes.
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Rethinking the Structural Prevention of Mass Atrocities

Global Responsibility to Protect, 2014
Interest amongst scholars and policy decision-makers in the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities has grown in recent years. Despite this, many have overlooked problems inherent in the commonly accepted notion of prevention. Crystalized in the Carnegie Commission’s 1997 report, ‘Preventing Deadly Conflict’, prevention has typically been ...
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Assessing Indonesia’s Capacity for Preventing Mass Atrocities

Global Responsibility to Protect, 2020
Abstract With the pervasive violations of human rights, including mass atrocities, which happened during the authoritarian New Order administration, the literature on human rights in Indonesia has often been highly critical of the regimes’ human rights record.
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Leveraging Web-Based Environments for Mass Atrocity Prevention

Simulation & Gaming, 2012
A growing literature exploring large-scale, identity-based political violence, including mass killing and genocide, debates the plausibility of, and prospects for, early warning and prevention. An extension of the debate involves the prospects for creating educational experiences that result in more sophisticated analytical products that enhance ...
Tucker B. Harding, Mark A. Whitlock
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Preventing and Stopping Mass Atrocities: the Responsibility to Protect

2018
INTRODUCTION After WWII, states were determined to prevent similar horrors in the future. In order to realize this, the prevention of interstate conflict, as well as the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms, became important goals of the United Nations.
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Evidence-Informed Prevention of Civil Wars and Mass Atrocities

The International Spectator, 2016
AbstractThe prevention discourse in all its forms has tended to ignore or at least downplay the epistemic problems with prevention. Forecasting political violence is not as easy as the debate on early warning often assumes. Effectively forestalling political violence and mass atrocities is much more difficult than the often used rhetoric of a ‘tool box’
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Analysis of the Theories and Methods of Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
The term "genocide" has been commonly used, particularly in political dialogue, to describe atrocities of great diversity, magnitude, and character. Yet the restricted approach towards the adoption of the term imposes an intimidating brake to create an effective response to prevent the crime.
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Preventing Mass Atrocities in Africa: The Case of the Two Sudans

2018
This chapter argues that preventing mass atrocities in Africa requires addressing the root causes of conflicts. It focuses on the experience of Sudan–South Sudan, which is, in many ways, a microcosm of Africa. The chapter argues that a crisis of identity lies at the heart of conflicts in the two Sudans, reflecting their failure to manage diversity ...
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Preventing mass atrocities

2020
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