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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Atrocities"”.
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Accountability for mass atrocities : the LRA conflict in Uganda
This thesis addresses accountability for mass atrocities. It presents a case study of Uganda that has undergone a two-decade conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgent group and the national army, the Uganda People’s Defence Armed Forces (UPDF). The government of Uganda has …
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Accountability for ISIS atrocities : is the International Criminal Court a viable prosecutorial option?
… media and its magazine. Having witnessed the atrocities committed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the United Nations Security Council affirmed that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s conduct in Syria and Iraq is a threat to international peace and security. Therefore, the …
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Ukraine’s Quest for Justice: Accountability for Atrocities Committed in the Russia-Ukraine War
… 24, 2022, has been marked by numerous documented atrocities, potentially falling under the categories of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This thesis aims to explore whether these apparent human rights and humanitarian law violations merit international prosecution. It also assesses the …
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Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict: Safe Areas and the Silencing of Mass Atrocities
… safe areas as well as the silencing of mass atrocities. The thesis consists of five publications (four of them published in double-blind peer reviewed journals) and of an introductory chapter that presents the overall argument and contextualises the publications. Two publications argue that …
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Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities
… of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities, examines the extent to which the success and feasibility of human rights tribunals and truth commissions are dependent upon the ways in which the past is narrativized in State-sponsored legal reports and subsequently promulgated through …
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Reconstruction of atrocities through fiction in Namibia: An evaluation of Mari Serebrov's Mama Namibia and Lauri Kabuitsile's the scattering
The study explored how fiction represents atrocities and the resilient tactics devised by people who experienced trauma during the 20th century Herero Genocide as presented in the two selected Namibian novels in English. The purpose of the study was to explore how traumatic avenues are chronicled …
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Disputing the history of Ottoman violence: an American missionary and an original counternarrative of the Bulgarian atrocities of 1876
… would not be a historiography of the Bulgarian Atrocities of 1876. Their reports were formative for not one but three historiographic traditions: the dominant English-Western tradition, but also the Bulgarian and Turkish nationalist traditions. For each of these, even those whose outlook is …
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Making a Difference? European Union’s Response to Conflict and Mass Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1994-2009)
This dissertation scrutinises two related claims that were particularly heightened in 2009 as the European Union (EU) was celebrating the first tenth anniversary of its European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), the implementing arm of its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). First, the two …
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Making a Difference? European Union’s Response to Conflict and Mass Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1994-2009)
This dissertation scrutinises two related claims that were particularly heightened in 2009 as the European Union (EU) was celebrating the first tenth anniversary of its European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), the implementing arm of its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). First, the two …
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Is international law a building or stumbling block to States' response to a legacy of massive atrocities? Reassessing the obligations to investigate and prosecute
Post-conflict situations, regime changes, and peace processes within situations of active hostility pose tremendous challenges for the governments and societies involved. The inherent dilemma between justice and the international obligations to investigate and prosecute a legacy of large-scale …
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BEYOND BANALITY: REASSESSING THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARENDT'S 'BANALITY OF EVIL'
… of moral responsibility in the context of mass atrocities. While Arendt's notion has significantly impacted discussions on moral responsibility and the nature of evil, this paper seeks to re-evaluate its philosophical foundations, arguing that a more nuanced exploration is necessary and that …
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A comparative study of massacres during the wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641-53
… is a comparative study of massacres and atrocities perpetrated in England, Ireland, and Scotland between 1641 and 1653. In this period the three Stuart kingdoms were embroiled in a series of wars that had a destabilizing and traumatizing effect on society. By concentrating on massacres …
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‘In the interests of justice’: cases of caste violence in the Supreme Court of India
… Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, which explicitly criminalises caste-based violence against the oppressed castes by the dominant castes. In the context of growing caste violence in India, and caste increasingly becoming a legal issue elsewhere, this thesis …
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Civil War prisons in American memory
… Second World Wars and their even more terrible atrocities. Historians and writers, inspired by the pursuit of objectivity, probed the legacy of Civil War prisons, no longer to blame individual Union or Confederate officials, but instead out of a desire to understand how such horrors could be …
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Reconstructing a film in fragments : Xasuqii means massacre
… an investigative documentary about the mass atrocities in Somaliland. In retrospect, the selectivity of victim interviews and greater emphasis on confronting war criminals seem problematic given the sensitivity of the topic: victims relived the trauma of mass atrocities and in doing so, it …
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The experiences of Western Australian Muslims within the current political and social environment
… has at times connected all Muslims to these atrocities, is creating a social division within the Australian community which is difficult to overcome. A generic qualitative methodology was utilised to best capture the lived experiences of the participants involved in this research, which …
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'When the people are made the enemy': Human Rights, Military Doctrine and the Path to Atrocity in Vietnam and El Salvador
… were marked by examples of some of the worst atrocities committed during the course of twentieth century conflict. The massacres at My Lai in Vietnam and El Mozote in El Salvador came to be regarded by many as the defining actions of those wars. These tragedies, however, were not isolated …
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Reinvention in the Line of Death: A Reconsideration of Geoffrey Hill's Commemorative Verse
… because Hill’s subjects are historical atrocities, rather than natural occurrences, the sort of communal consolation that the elegy traditionally offered would be inappropriate to Hill’s concerns. These atrocities are, most frequently, instances of human violence (the Holocaust, the …
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Reinvention in the Line of Death: A Reconsideration of Geoffrey Hill's Commemorative Verse
… because Hill’s subjects are historical atrocities, rather than natural occurrences, the sort of communal consolation that the elegy traditionally offered would be inappropriate to Hill’s concerns. These atrocities are, most frequently, instances of human violence (the Holocaust, the …
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In the Shadow of Shuri Castle: The Battle of Okinawa in Memory
… off their island, gain recognition for Japanese atrocities plus reparations, the Okinawans portrayed themselves as a peaceful people that were the sole victims of the battle of Okinawa. The United States glossed over the crimes committed by the Japanese on Okinawa and Asia to use Japan as a …
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