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Britain and genocide: historical and contemporary parameters of national responsibility [PDF]

, 2011
This article (originally given as the Annual War Studies Lecture at King's College, London, on 25 January 2010) challenges the assumption that Britain's relationship to genocide is constituted by its `vigilance towards the genocide of others.
Shaw, Martin
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart, Bayan Abubakr, Beltina Gjeloshi, Dieter Pfoser   +3 more
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Genocide in the Lachin corridor? An investigation into the frameworks and conditions of atrocity crimes

Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies
The Azerbaijani blockade of the Lachin corridor isolated 120,000 ethnic Armenians, including 30,000 children, living in Nagorno-Karabakh. For nine months, the region experienced shortages of water, electricity, medicine, and food.
Sophia King
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Calling Genocide by Its Rightful Name: Lemkin\u27s Word, Darfur, and the UN Report [PDF]

, 2006
When the United Nations commission investigating Darfur issued its report in January 2005, it concluded that the Darfur atrocities represented war crimes and crimes against humanity, but not genocide. This had the harmful effect of deflating efforts
Luban, David
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Vicious Pictures? How National Socialist Propaganda Glorifying Adolf Hitler Affects Contemporary Viewers' Emotions

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorifying Adolf Hitler influence these feelings. Prior scholars have raised concerns that such materials might communicate distorted images of the past
Lara Ditrich, Katharina Bernecker, Jonas Reinhardt, Kai Sassenberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Public Administration Reform: Institutional Layering of Bureaucratic, Managerial and Community Logics Over Time in Nigeria's Tax Administration

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The reform of public institutions has attracted sustained attention in both scholarship and policymaking. Increasingly, however, there is growing recognition that reforms are rarely implemented in an institutional vacuum. Instead, new reforms are layered onto existing arrangements, producing hybrid institutional landscapes shaped by prior ...
Edidiong Bassey
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Place attachment and attitudes to landscape change for tree planting and net zero

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract To reach net zero by 2050 the Paris Agreement on Climate Change recommended tree cover expansion and tree planting to support Nationally Determined Contributions. We use place attachment in the context of historical events to explore landscape change and attitudes towards tree planting.
Sheena Carlisle, Susan Baker, Euan Bowditch, Natasha Constant, Tom Finch, Melissa Minter, Alix Syder   +6 more
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Choreography, controversy and child sex abuse: Theoretical reflections on a cultural criminological analysis of dance in a pop music video [PDF]

, 2017
This article was inspired by the controversy over claims of ‘pedophilia!!!!’ undertones and the ‘triggering’ of memories of childhood sexual abuse in some viewers by the dance performance featured in the music video for Sia’s ‘Elastic Heart’ (2015).
Adshead J, Adshead J, Adshead J, Adshead-Lansdale J, Beardsworth S, Beyoncé, Breed A, Calderone MS, Campbell E, Cohen S, Cropley DH, Cvejic B, Dearey Melissa, Durkheim E, Elias N, Ferrell J, Ferrell J, Ferrell J, Gerth HH, Grosz E, Harding JM, Hayward K, Jackson N, Kristeva J, LeBaron M, LeBaron M, Martin R, Melissa Dearey, Millet K, Nietzsche F, Orbach S, Selzer M, Shakira, Vernallis C   +33 more
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Media and Mass Atrocity Prevention: Three Pathways of Potential Influence

Global Responsibility to Protect
Abstract This article critically examines the media’s complex role in both facilitating and obstructing the prevention of mass atrocities, identifying three key pathways of influence: structural prevention, operational prevention, and crisis response. It addresses a gap in existing research, which has primarily explored media influence on humanitarian ...
De Franco, Chiara, Meyer, Christoph
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