Preventing Mass Atrocities

Policies and Practices
Herausgeber: Harff, Barbara; Gurr, Ted Robert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The volume examines historical cases to understand the general causes and process of mass violence and genocide and also engages with on-going genocidal crises including Darfur and Syria, as well as other forms of related violence such as terrorism and civil conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138956001
• ISBN-10: 1138956007
• Artikelnr.: 52958852

Autorenporträt

Barbara Harff is Professor of Political Science Emerita at the US Naval Academy and was distinguished visiting professor at Clark University's Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She co-founded the Genocide Prevention Advisory Network and served for a decade on the US Government's State Failure (later Political Instability) Task Force. In 2013 she received the Raphael Lemkin Award from the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. Ted Robert Gurr was Distinguished University Professor of Political Science (Emeritus) at the University of Maryland; Founder and Consultant of the Minority at Risk Project; Former Senior Consultant to the US Government's Political Instability Task Force; Former Olof Palme Visiting Professor, HSFR, Uppsala University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction [Barbara Harff ] 2. Genocides and Mass Atrocities: Can They
Be Prevented? [Yehuda Bauer] Part 1: Risk Assessment, Early Warning, and
Early Response 3. Countries at Risk of New Genocides and Politicides after
2016 - And Why [Barbara Harff] 4. Atrocity Crimes as a Disease: A
Statistical Approach to Early Detection [Birger Heldt] 5. Early Prevention
of Genocide and Mass Atrocities? Evidence from Conflict Analysis [Ted
Robert Gurr] Part 2: Mobilizing International, Regional, and Local
Responses 6. Ending the Silence on War Crimes: A Journalist's Perspective
[Roy Gutman] 7. Preventing Mass Atrocities at the Local Level: Using
Village Committees for Conflict Prevention in Mauritania [Ekkehard Strauss]
8. In the Absence of Will: Could Genocide in Darfur have been Halted or
Mitigated? [Eric Reeves] 9. Atrocity Prevention from Obama to Trump [James
P. Finkel] 10. Prevention through Political Agreements: The Community of
Sant'Egidio and Central African Republic [Andrea Bartoli and Mauro
Garofolo] 11. An African Regional Perspective on Prevention [Liberata
Mulamula and Ashad Sentongo] 12. Roots of Ambivalence: The United Nations,
Genocide, and Mass Atrocity Prevention [Edward C. Luck] 13. Who is in
Charge? Emerging National and Regional Strategies for Prevention [Andrea
Bartoli and Tetsushi Ogata] 14. Guidelines for Prevention of Genocides and
other Mass Atrocities: An Overview [Ted Robert Gurr]