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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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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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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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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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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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The “Responsibility to Prevent”: An International Crimes Approach to the Prevention of Mass Atrocities

Ethics & International Affairs, 2014
On September 9, 2013, diplomats and civil society activists gathered in a ballroom in New York to welcome Jennifer Welsh as the UN Secretary-General's new Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP). In her first public appearance in that role, Special Adviser Welsh explained that one of her top priorities would be “to take prevention ...
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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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Ethical Quandaries in War Zones, When Mass Atrocity Prevention Fails

Global Policy, 2016
AbstractHumanitarians are no longer necessarily viewed as selfless angels in war zones. Their motivations and mastery, their principles and products are questioned from inside and outside of the community of aid and protection agencies. Like the poor, war victims will always be with us.
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