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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"ethnic cleansing"”.
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The Rise and Fall of the Minnesota Middle Ground: Henry Hastings Sibley and the Ethnic Cleansing of Minnesota
… in the Great Sioux Uprising, and ultimately the ethnic cleansing of Minnesota. This study approaches Sibley’s involvement on a microhistorical level, exposing the larger ethnohistorical and cultural framework of a racially mixed society. Sibley’s experience shows that it was still an important …
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The Legal and Political Foundations of Kosovo's Independence
… perpetrated by Serbs over the years and the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of Albanian populations through the centuries. Equally important is the analysis of Kosovo‟s status within the 1974 Constitution and its abolition, which in one way started the dissolution of the SFRY. This paper …
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Rape as a weapon of war in Darfur
… have used rape as a weapon of war, in the ethnic cleansing of non-Arab tribes in the region. Rape as a weapon of war was also used to degrade, terrorize women and destroy families and communities. In Darfur women and girls were raped in front of their family members. Victims ranging as …
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Uncovering the Hidden Palestinian City of Jerusalem: Disrupting Power Through Art Intervention
… how the destruction did not halt with the ethnic cleansing in 1948, but persists as Israel continues to efface the Palestinian Arab identity from the memory of the city. Destruction in this context is not limited to rubbles, but encompasses cultural cleansing, the fragmentation of …
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Dante’s Hidden Sin - Wrath: How Dante Vindictively Used The Inferno Against Contemporaries
… or exterminated. He vindictively roots for ethnic cleansing. The lower construction of Dante’s Hell appears to have little to do with Christian theology but, rather, is a contrivance to house his detested enemies and give him personal revenge. Dante’s wrath for his contemporaries may have …
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Precursor to conflict: the cultural re-coding of Serbia
… this culturally diverse and historically multi-ethnic region of Europe was not driven by ancient ethnic sentiments, nor was it a 'civil war' between 'traditional tribal rivals' --fighting for 'hundreds of years'--; but was rather the direct result of a within-group (intra-state/inter-cultural) …
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Remapping territorial faultlines: Conflicts between separatist groups and host states
… war, Kosovar resistance to Serbian ethnic-cleansing, Mayan (Zapatistas) autonomy claims in Mexico, and the Ogoni struggle for land control in Nigeria testify to the diversity and scope of ongoing state versus nation conflicts. Since most states "host" several ethnonational or …
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‘Imagining' the Rohingya: Navigating Identity, Memory, and Visibility Examining different methods of documenting Rohingya identities, experiences, and lives.
… what the UN described as a ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing' of the stateless minority group, the Rohingya residing in the Northern Rakhine region of Myanmar. Since August 2017, more than 700 000 Rohingya fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh. Apart from the gross human rights violations they have …
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The Development and Application of the "Petraeus Doctrine" During the 2007 Iraq Troop "Surge"
… and have no choice but to do something; the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad that had shifted the violence from neighbor-on-neighbor to neighborhood-on-neighborhood; and an insurgency that had overplayed its hand combined with American domestic politics to make the Americans a more temporary and …
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Tragic challenges and the moral hazard of humanitarian intervention : how and why ethnic groups provoke genocidal retaliation
… of, and possible remedies for, extremely violent ethnic conflict. It starts from a robust yet under-explored finding in the literature: Most groups that fall victim to genocidal violence actually trigger their own demise by launching armed secessions or revolutions against state authorities that …
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The Conceptualization of Genocide in the International Media: A Case Study of Darfur
… to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” Despite this legal definition, countries, organizations, institutions or individuals may label a crisis as genocide, civil war, or another type of conflict. Because the printed mainstream media reflects and shapes …
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Rethinking The Responsibility To Protect: Libya As A Case Study [before doctoral defense]
… and decisive manner, from genocides, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, as well as the responsibility of the international community to assist states in fulfilling this responsibility (International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, 2001; United Nations …
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FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
… of systems are identified – settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and pre-entry removal as part of contemporary migration governance – each illustrated through a dedicated case study drawn from the Mediterranean region: the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara, the policies of ethnic cleansing …
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Rights and Responsibilities: What are the Prospects for the Responsibility to Protect in the International/Transnational Arena?
… in cases of human atrocities, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide where states have failed or are unable to do so. According to the work of the International Commission on the Responsibility to Protect (ICISS), this response can and should span a continuum involving prevention, a …
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War on architecture : scenographic strategies in tracing post-war home in the former SFR Yugoslavia
… domestic space, in the light of widespread ethnic, cultural and political violence across the globe. The study is distinctive in terms of positioning domestic space as a direct casualty and witness of violence. Its scenographic perspective, here applied inversely, frames war-torn domestic …
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Architecture After Forced Migration
… gentrification processes and episodes of ethnic cleansing. Therefore, a neighborhood's transformation with cohesive public spaces and incremental housing prototypes is proposed in this thesis. Through the study of architectural responses to natural disaster, refugee camps and slums design …
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From Oppression to Education: Transgressing to Freedom?
… a rise of racism and xenophobia, religious and ethnic cleansing, people run for their lives, escaping conflicts, persecution, tortures and deaths. The phenomenon of migration, apparently, can be traced to the Roman times, yet, in the twenty first century, it is considered acceptable to purposely …
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Do global legal frameworks hold social media platforms accountable for hosting content that incites violence?
… groups, leading to increased communal violence, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide.8 Major platforms such as Facebook, X, and YouTube have been criticized for failing to remove harmful content promptly and effectively and for mistakenly removing content that does not breach their policies.9 This …
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The responsibility to protect (R2P): an analysis of the fulfillment of the obligation borne by the Nigerian Government and the international community to protect the Nigerian population from Boko Haram
… crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing. I have argued that if a state fails to fulfil its legal obligation to protect its population from mass violations of human rights, the principle of state sovereignty and its accompanying norm of non-intervention cannot prevent the …
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Reconceptions of 'Home' and Identity within the Post-War Bosnian Diaspora in the United States
… involuntary migrants who fled the genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign of Serb nationalists who sought to destroy Bosnia as a historically multiethnic homeland in order to create ethnically homogeneous Serb territory. Over twenty years after the war, many of those that were displaced have not …
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