Protection against genocide : mission impossible? / / edited by Neal Riemer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965948603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood, , 2000; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• ISBN: 9798216002321; 9780313001581; 0313001588
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): RiemerNeal <1922->
• Disciplina: 341.7/78
• Soggetti: Genocide
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-182) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Protection Against Genocide -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Urgent Need for a Global Human Rights Regime -- INTRODUCTION -- FOUR BADLY NEGLECTED NEEDS -- Strengthened Institutions and Actors -- Prudent Prevention -- Effectively Staged Implementation of Sanctions -- Just Humanitarian Intervention -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 2 The Evolution of the International System and Its Impact On Protection Against Genocide -- INTRODUCTION -- THESIS -- THE END OF THE COLD WAR -- Humanitarian Intervention -- Northern Iraq, Somalia, and Bosnia -- The Rwanda Tragedy -- The Permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) -- GLOBALIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY -- THE SPREAD OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY -- THE COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION -- Tracking Responsibility -- Publicity and Policy -- A Genocide Early Warning System -- Global Integration and the Crucial Role of NGOs -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 3 The Three P's of Genocide Prevention: With Application to a Genocide Foretold-Rwanda -- INTRODUCTION -- IS IT OUR PROBLEM? -- IS IT PRUDENT TO PREVENT GENOCIDE? -- IS DEMOCRACY THE ANSWER? -- HOW CAN WE ANTICIPATE AND DETER GENOCIDE? -- FORECASTING AND PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE: THE CASE OF RWANDA -- Modern Times-The Past Generation: 1960-1990 (Figure 3.1, Column 1) -- Early-Warning Time: ; 1990-July 1993 (Figure 3.1, Column 2) -- Crisis-Warning Time: August 1993-April 1994 (Figure 3.1, Column 3) -- Warnings Ignored -- Consequences and Aftermath of Genocide in Rwanda -- CONCLUSION: THE POTENTIAL FOR AND IMPEDIMENTS TO PREVENTION -- NOTES -- 4 Economic Sanctions and Genocide: Too Little, Too Late, and Sometimes Too Much -- INTRODUCTION -- CAN SANCTIONS EFFECTIVELY PROTECT POPULATIONS AGAINST GENOCIDE? -- The Rwandan Case -- Sanctions and the Yugoslav War -- Iraq's Ordeal: Can Sanctions Be Genocidal?.; THE FUTURE OF SANCTIONS IN DEALING WITH GENOCIDE -- FINANCIAL SANCTIONS -- ARMS EMBARGOES -- TRAVEL AND INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION BANS -- THE FUTURE AGENDA -- NOTES -- 5 Can an International Criminal Court Prevent and Punish Genocide? -- INTRODUCTION -- CREATING AN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT -- The Need for an International Criminal Court -- VISIONS OF A PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT -- STRIKING A BARGAIN -- DEFINITIONAL HURDLES -- FLAWS IN THE ICC STATUTE -- Problems with the Court's Jurisdiction -- Problems with Amendments -- THE EFFECT OF U.S. NONPARTICIPATION -- FUTURE PROSPECTS -- NOTES -- 6 A UN Constabulary to Enforce the Law on Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONTEXT: THE CREATION OF THE PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT -- TOWARD A UNITED NATIONS CONSTABULARY FORCE -- Some Issues of Jurisdiction -- Deciding When to Deploy the UN Constabulary -- Functions of the Proposed UN Constabulary -- Structure of the Proposed UN Constabulary -- POLITICAL OBSTACLES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 7 On Humanitarian Intervention -- INTRODUCTION -- PRELIMINARY PROBLEMS: LANGUAGE -- INTERVENTION: PROBLEMS OF JUSTIFICATION, AGENCY, AND CAPABILITY -- NOTES -- 8 Conclusion -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CRITIQUE: FOUR DIFFICULTIES -- Difficulty 1: Strengthening the Institutions and Actors of a Global Human Rights Regime -- Difficulty 2: Prudent Prevention -- Difficulty 3: Articulating the Theory and Practice of Wisely Staged Implementation -- Difficulty 4: Just Humanitarian Intervention -- THE FULLER DEFENSE OF A BREAKTHROUGH TO A GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Appendix 1 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide -- ARTICLE I -- ARTICLE II -- ARTICLE III -- ARTICLE IV -- ARTICLE V -- ARTICLE VI -- ARTICLE VII -- ARTICLE VIII -- ARTICLE IX -- ARTICLE X -- ARTICLE XI.; ARTICLE XII -- ARTICLE XIII -- ARTICLE XIV -- ARTICLE XV -- ARTICLE XVI -- ARTICLE XVII -- ARTICLE XVIII -- ARTICLE XIX -- Appendix 2 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- PREAMBLE -- Article 1. -- Article 2. -- Article 3. -- Article 4. -- Article 5. -- Article 6. -- Article 7. -- Article 8. -- Article 9. -- Article 10. -- Article 11. -- Article 12. -- Article 13. -- Article 14. -- Article 15. -- Article 16. -- Article 17. -- Article 18. -- Article 19. -- Article 20. -- Article 21. -- Article 22. -- Article 23. -- Article 24. -- Article 25. -- Article 26. -- Article 27. -- Article 28. -- Article 29. -- Article 30. -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: Without succumbing to utopian fantasies or realistic pessimism, Riemer and his contributors call for strengthening the key institutions of a global human rights regime, developing an effective policy of prudent prevention of genocide, working out a sagacious strategy of keenly targeted sanctions-political, economic, military, judicial-and adopting a guiding philosophy of just humanitarian intervention. They underscore significant changes in the international system-the end of the Cold War, economic globalization, the communications revolution- that hold open the opportunity for significant, if modest, movement ; toward strengthening key institutions. The essays explore key problems in working toward prevention of genocide. They highlight the existence of considerable early warning of genocide and emphasize that the real problem is a lack of political will in key global institutions. Sanctions, especially economic sanctions may punish a genocidal regime, but at the expense of innocent civilians. Thus, more clearly targeted sanctions are seen as essential. The argument on behalf of a standing police force to deal with the crime of genocide, as they show, is powerful and controversial: powerful because the need is persuasive, controversial because political realists question its cost and political feasibility. Implementing a philosophy of just humanitarian intervention requires an appreciation of the difficulties of interpreting those principles in difficult concrete situations. A permanent international criminal tribunal to deter and punish genocide, they argue, will put into place a much needed component of a global human rights regime. A thoughtful analysis for scholars and students of international politics and law, and human rights in general.