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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Mass 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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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 …
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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 …
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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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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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Reconstructing a film in fragments : Xasuqii means massacre
… techniques for reconstructing a film about mass graves in Northern Somalia (Somaliland), the search for unanswerable questions, and navigating the trauma involved in the cinematic process. In 2019, Somalia is just as fragmented as it was during colonization. During the Somali Civil War 30 …
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The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention
… justice of an intervener’s cause cannot license mass killing, and defenders of intervention should resist the urge to privilege abstract principles above policies that might better protect the most basic interests of innocent persons. In the end, I contend that the justified occasions for …
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An analysis of humanitarian intervention in action
… The Hague", in Herman E.S. (ed), The Srebrenica Massacre: Evidence, Context, Politics (Szamuely 2011); Herman E.S., Peterson D. & Szamuely G., 2007, "Yugoslavia: Human Rights Watch in Service to the War Party" (Szamuely 2007); and Bombs for Peace: NATO’s Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia (Szamuely, …
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Bridging the Gap in Human Protection: Contesting the Responsibility to Protect through the Protection of Civilians Norm: A Comparative Study of Brazil, China and South Africa
… the 1990s to respond adequately to instances of mass atrocities in Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia. Consequently, two human protection norms were developed: the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) and the ‘Protection of Civilians in armed conflict’ (POC). Implementation of human protection through R2P …
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Destruction at the root: Religious genocide in Tibet?
… on genocide, the legal yardstick by which all mass atrocities are measured, I contend that within the Convention’s limited framework, there exists little opportunity for the case of Tibet to be judged according to meaningful criteria. Indeed, considering the consubstantiality of religion and …
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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 …
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The Work and the Glory: Historical Fiction and Cultural Narrative in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
… how authors use historical fiction to represent mass atrocities. This project shows that, although historical fiction is a palatable way to present uncomfortable topics to broader audiences, historical novelists are in danger of creating generalized histories that downplay the multi-faceted …
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Rethinking The Responsibility To Protect: Libya As A Case Study [before doctoral defense]
… and often controversial nature of addressing mass violence and human rights abuses. The world watched in horror as countless lives were lost to mass atrocities and other crimes. History is abundant with examples of the international community standing by and doing nothing as innocent people …
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The Media of Memories: Argentine and Brazilian Transitional Justice as Seen on TV
… gaps and hauntings inherent in remembering mass atrocities? And finally, 3) What alternative spaces for advocacy, if any, are opened up by these television programs? In the end, my project contends that television programs, in the Argentine and Brazilian cases, have the potential to operate …
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Toward improved understanding and interaction between forensic science and international criminal law in the context of transitional justice.
… response to social trauma, human rights' abuses, mass atrocities, civil war and genocide. Criticaliy, criminal trials are believed to contribute to a notion oftruth through producing a record of the causes of conflicts, the responsible actors and parties, as well as the events. As part of its …
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Why Surrender Sovereignty? Empowering Non-State Actors to Protect the Status Quo
… Germany's territorial aggression and the 1990s mass atrocities in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda prompted legal crises for the territorial integrity principle and the human rights regime respectively. Seeking to bolster territoriality and human rights, powerful states experimented with the …
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Konstytucyjnoprawne aspekty koncepcji responsibility to protect
W rozprawie doktorskiej przedstawiono analizę konstytucyjnoprawnego wymiaru koncepcji responsibility to protect (odpowiedzialności za ochronę). Analizę tę przeprowadzono z wewnętrznego i zewnętrznego punktu widzenia. Z wewnętrznego punktu widzenia odpowiedzialność za ochronę może nieść ze sobą …