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Rethinking the Structural Prevention of Mass Atrocities
Global Responsibility to Protect, 2014Interest 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, 2020Abstract 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, 2012A 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
2018INTRODUCTION 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, 2016AbstractThe 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, 2017The 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
2018This 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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Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and Theories of Crime: Unlocking Criminology's Potential
Annual Review of Criminology, 2021Susanne Karstedt +2 more
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Genocide and mass atrocities in Asia: legacies and prevention
2013The twentieth century has been labelled the 'century of genocide', and according to estimates, more than 250 million civilians were victims of genocide and mass atrocities during this period. This book provides one of the first regional perspectives on mass atrocities in Asia, by exploring the issue through two central themes. Bringing together experts
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