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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Atrocity"”.
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Atrocity, Commerce and Accountability: Corporate Responsibility for International Crimes
In recent decades, the prospect of holding corporations and their representatives responsible for international crimes has emerged as an important component of a number of interlinked fields. While these ideas have become widely acknowledged, the scope of the relationship between commerce and …
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'Atrocity Suppression': an alternative to 'Humanitarian Intervention'
… the classical idea. I, thus, introduce ‘atrocity suppression’ and articulate the key benefits that will accrue from its adoption.
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Acts of atrocity effects on public opinion support during war or conflict
Acts of atrocity are an unfortunate, yet recurring theme of warfare. Committed by both professional and unprofessional militaries alike, these acts flagrantly violate common standards of competence, morality, ethics, and military professionalism. Commonly, these incidents result in the death of …
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Flieder, 1945 / Lilac, 2015 : visibility, memory, gender : writing and re-imagining National Socialist atrocity for the stage
… Writing and Re-imagining National Socialist Atrocity for the Stage" addresses the history of the camps in Altenburg and Meuselwitz, documents the creative process, and engages with various theatrical and filmic representation of National Socialist atrocity. Particular focus is placed on …
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International Crimes as Familiar Spectacles: Socially Constructed Understandings of Atrocity and the Visibility Politics of International Criminal Law
… embedded in a particular aesthetic model of atrocity. According to this model, atrocity crimes are expected to manifest themselves as familiar spectacles of violence and abuse that are both shocking and intuitively “criminal” in nature. While at first glance, this understanding may appear to …
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Coercion, norms and atrocity: explaining state compliance with international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia arrest and surrender orders
State compliance with International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) arrest and surrender orders, Article 29(d) and (e) obligations, remains under explored in international criminal tribunal (ICT) scholarship despite the fact compliance with ICTY orders often proved not …
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Order versus Justice: An Assessment of the Challenges Faced by The Commission of Experts and The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia During Their Attempts to Investigate and Prosecute Atrocity Crimes
… international investigations and prosecutions of atrocity crimes poses the conflict between order and justice in international relations in an equally stark form. Diplomatic attempts to facilitate a negotiated settlement to an armed conflict (order) may be undermined by attempts to investigate and …
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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
The Vietnam and Salvadoran wars 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, …
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Film evidence in war crimes trials: Two case studies
The use of atrocity film evidence within international war crimes trials has been a controversial issue, in part, due to its conflict with the conventional common law rule against admitting hearsay evidence into trials and relative to "fair trial" norms. Such controversies are particularly evident …
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An investigation into the irregular military dynamics in Yugoslavia, 1992-1995
… irregular military actors operate in modern mass atrocity crises, providing an evidencebased multi-perspective analysis of the irregular military dynamics that accompanied the violent collapse of Yugoslavia (1991-1995). While it is broadly accepted that paramilitary or irregular units have been …
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Imagining the Worst: Ladislav Fuks' Contributions to Holocaust Fiction
… role imagination can play in art that addresses atrocity, allowing for a heightened subjective impact on the audience. I critically and comparatively examine Fuks' work to establish his value to literature and Holocaust art. In the first chapter, I frame my argument with questions of art's …
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‘In the interests of justice’: cases of caste violence in the Supreme Court of India
… judgments in the appeals arising from caste atrocity proceedings under the PoA Act. Following a comprehensive analysis of caste atrocity jurisprudence, the findings reveal significant gaps and the inadequacies in the legal framework and the justice system in delivering justice in caste …
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British Foreign Policy: An Examination of the Relationship between British Intelligence, Democratic Peace Theory, and International Law through the Lens of Ethnic Stratification & Mass Atrocity in Southeast Asia 1965-1990
Democratic peace theory suggests that democratic states do not engage in covert action against one another.1 Academic scholarship, however, indicates that democratic states will use covert action against an elected government if national security planners perceive there is democratic decay in its …
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The price of freedom: the battle of Saltville and the massacre of the Fifth United States Colored Cavalry
… study rates Saltville as the worst battlefield atrocity of the American Civil War.
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Cambodian Genocide Museums And Memorials: A Medium For Transmitting Intergenerational Cultural Memory
… grave for national mourning, but also a site of atrocity; not only a site of atrocity, but also an archive; not only a holding place for history, but also a memorial; not only a memorial, but also a museum. What is the significance and implications of changing this slaughterhouse into a …
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The Commodification of Dark Tourism: Conceptualising the Visitor Experience
… to sites of, or associated with death, disaster, atrocity, or suffering are a pervasive feature within the contemporary tourism landscape. This thesis, therefore, critically examines dark tourism within the modern tourism industry in which ‘dark’ experiences are packaged-up and sold to consumers – …
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A comparative analysis of genocidal rape in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia: Implications for the future
… to develop a preventative approach to this atrocity. The objective of this study is to contribute to a growing body of research on genocidal rape.</p>
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