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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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Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2022 AbstractAlthough there is wide agreement that there are jus cogens prohibitions against the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, there is significantly less clarity regarding obligations to prevent such atrocities. This paper explores the existing prevention framework and is intended to speak to those States that seek to take
Federica D’Alessandra +1 more
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RELATIONAL AMBIVALENCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY: RE‐READING FREUD'S RAT MAN
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a close reading of Freud's 1909 case study ‘Bemerkungen über einen Fall von Zwangsneurose’ (‘Rat Man’). I build on Andrew Webber's observation that both psychoanalytic case studies and the literary genre of the novella use the exceptional case to confirm the norm.
Marie Kolkenbrock
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r2p and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities: A Child-Centric Approach
Global Responsibility to Protect, 2018 Prevention has taken centre-stage in present discussions around both United Nations reform and the r2p implementation agenda. Contemporary humanitarian crises from Myanmar to Yemen reinforce the horrendous atrocities that children face during periods of armed conflict and mass political upheaval to which the prevention agenda is geared.
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Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
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Preventing Mass Human-Rights Violations and Atrocity Crimes [PDF]
, 2021 The problem of preventing mass human-rights violations and atrocity crimes is one of the key issues in international relations. The book presents the capacity of the international community in the field. The available instruments of early warning, preventive diplomacy as well as legal, economic, and military measures of prevention are included.
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Section 230 and the Duty to Prevent Mass Atrocities
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Between August and November, 2017, the Myanmar military carried out a series of brutal attacks against Rohingya Muslim communities in Rakhine State in Myanmar. Myanmar’s military used Facebook as a tool for ethnic cleansing. In theory, Rohingya plaintiffs could bring a state tort law claim against Facebook alleging that Facebook was negligent (or worse)
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The Epistemic Harms of Botched Apologies for Past Wrongs
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Apologies often create expectations of meaningful change and repair. Yet when institutions or states deliver apologies for past wrongs that lack substantive reparative action, they risk deepening, rather than redressing, the harms they acknowledge.
Abraham Tobi
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Who Cares: Why the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Matters (More) to Some EU Member States
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract What drives the salience of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict amongst EU member states? This article employs domestic foreign policy theories to explain the factors underlying variation in salience, estimated analysing all country statements made at the United Nations General Assembly between 1993 and 2017.
Valerio Vignoli +2 more
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Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis
Constellations, EarlyView.
Heiko Stubenrauch
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