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Mass atrocity crimes : preventing future outrages / Robert I. Rotberg, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genocide--Prevention.
- Genocide.
- Crimes against humanity--Prevention.
- Crimes against humanity.
- Atrocities--Prevention.
- Atrocities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Millions of people, particularly in Africa, face daily the prospect of death at the hands of state or state-linked forces. Although officially both the United Nations and the African Union have adopted "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) principles, atrocities continue. The tenets of R2P, recently cited in a UN Outcomes Document, make it clear that states have a primary responsibility to protect their citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. When states cannot-or will not-protect their citizens, however, the international community must step into the bre
- Contents:
- Deterring mass atrocity crimes : the cause of our era / Robert I. Rotberg
- Old crimes, new paradigms : preventing mass atrocity crimes / Dan Kuwali
- The role of the International Criminal Court / Richard J. Goldstone
- Understanding crimes against humanity in West Africa : giving the people what they want / David M. Crane
- The responsibility to protect : preventing and halting crimes against humanity / Don Hubert
- Building a norm : the responsibility to protect experience / Edward C. Luck
- Acting against atrocities : a strategy for supporters of R2P / Claire Applegarth and Andrew Block
- From prevention to response : using military force to oppose mass atrocities / Sarah Sewall
- Social networks and technology in the prevention of crimes against humanity / Sarah E. Kreps
- The use of patterns in crisis mapping to combat mass atrocity crimes / Jennifer Leaning
- Monitoring African governments' domestic media to predict and prevent mass atrocities : opportunities and obstacles / Frank Chalk.
- Notes:
- Sponsored by the World Peace Foundation and the Harvard Kennedy School Program on Intrastate Conflict.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612641626
- 9781282641624
- 128264162X
- 9780815704867
- 0815704860
- OCLC:
- 646788225
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