Mass atrocity crimes [[electronic resource] ] : preventing future outrages / / Robert I. Rotberg, editor

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.4
• Soggetto topico: Genocide - Prevention; Crimes against humanity - Prevention; Atrocities - Prevention
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RotbergRobert I
• Note generali: Sponsored by the World Peace Foundation and the Harvard Kennedy School Program on Intrastate Conflict.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Mass atrocity crimes
• ISBN: 1-282-64162-X; 9786612641626; 0-8157-0486-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459098803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II