Suchergebnisse

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

"Identifies and characterizes the most repressive states and singles out which are aggressive. Defines the actions constituting repression and proposes a method of measuring human rights violations, presenting an index of nation-state repressiveness. Offers a way to decide which repressive and rogue states are most deserving of strong policy attention"--Provided by publisher

"The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of support and success. To many, they are the best--or only--way to achieve a full accounting of crimes committed against fellow citizens and to prevent future conflict. Others question whether a restorative justice that sets the guilty free, that cleanses society by words alone, can deter future abuses and allow victims and their families to heal. Here, leading philosophers, lawyers, social scientists, and activists representing several perspectives look at the process of truth commissioning in general and in post-apartheid South Africa. They ask whether the truth commission, as a method of seeking justice after conflict, is fair, moral, and effective in bringing about reconciliation. The authors weigh the virtues and failings of truth commissions, especially the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in their attempt to provide restorative rather than retributive justice. They examine, among other issues, the use of reparations as social policy and the granting of amnesty in exchange for testimony. Most of the contributors praise South Africa's decision to trade due process for the kinds of truth that permit closure. But they are skeptical that such revelations produce reconciliation, particularly in societies that remain divided after a compromise peace with no single victor, as in El Salvador. Ultimately, though, they find the truth commission to be a worthy if imperfect instrument for societies seeking to say "never again" with confidence. At a time when truth commissions have been proposed for Bosnia, Kosovo, Cyprus, East Timor, Cambodia, Nigeria, Palestine, and elsewhere, the authors' conclusion that restorative justice provides positive gains could not be more important."--JSTOR website (viewed May 26, 2017).

The evolution and salience of Burma's national political culture / Josef Silverstein -- Political values and political conflict in Burma / R.H. Taylor -- On time warps and warped time : lessons from Burma's "democratic era" / Mary P. Callahan -- From isolation to relevance : policy considerations / Marvin C. Ott -- The Armed Forces and military rule in Burma / Andrew Selth -- Burma's role in regional security--pawn or pivot? / J. Mohan Malik -- Ethnicity and Civil War in Burma : where is the rationality? / Ananda Rajah -- Development prospects for Burma : cycles and trends / David Dapice -- Drugs and economic growth : ethnicity and exports / Bertil Lintner -- Burma : the booming drug trade / Robert S. Gelbard -- The New Burma Road (paved by polytechnologies?) / Frank S. Jannuzi -- Foreign direct investment in Burma : trends, determinants, and prospects / Mark Mason -- The State's role in education in Burma : an overview / John J. Brandon -- Health in Burma : an interpretive review / David A. Chandler -- The road to political recovery : the salience of politics in economics / David I. Steinberg

Human suffering on a large scale is a continuing threat to world peace. Several dozen gruesome civil wars disturb global order and jar our collective conscience each year. The 50 million people displaced by current complex humanitarian emergencies overwhelm the ability of the post-Cold War world to understand and cope with genocide, ethnic cleansing, massacres, and other inhumane acts. Greater public awareness of how much is at stake and how much more costly it is to act later rather than sooner can be a critical element in stemming the proliferation of these tragedies. The media play an increasingly crucial role in publicizing humanitarian crises, and advances in technology have intensified the immediacy of their reports. Because the world is watching as events unfold, policymakers are under great pressure to respond rapidly. Close cooperation between international relief agencies and the media is thus essential to help prevent or contain the humanitarian emergencies that threaten to overwhelm the world's capacity to care and assist. The authors of this book--all prominent in the fields of disaster relief, journalism, government policymaking, and academia--show how influential well-informed and well-developed media attention has become in forming policies to resolve ethnic and religious conflict and humanitarian crises. The authors argue that the media and humanitarians can collaborate effectively to alter both the attitudes of the public and the actions of policymakers regarding ethnic conflict and humanitarian crises. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Fred H. Cate, Joel R. Charny, Edward R. Girardet, John C. Hammock, Steven Livingston, Andrew Natsios, Lionel Rosenblatt, John Shattuck, and Peter Shiras. A Brookings Institution and World Peace Foundation copublication.