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International responses to mass atrocities in Africa : responsibility to protect, prosecute, and palliate / Kurt Mills.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: JZ6369 .M55 2015

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    "Since the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations, genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes--mass atrocities--have been explicitly illegal. When such crimes are committed, the international community has an obligation to respond: the human rights of the victims outweigh the sovereignty claims of states that engage in or allow such human rights violations. This obligation has come to be known as the responsibility to protect. Yet, parallel to this responsibility, two other related responsibilities have developed: to prosecute those responsible for the crimes, and to provide humanitarian relief to the victims--what the author calls the responsibility to palliate. Even though this rhetoric of protecting those in need is well used by the international community, its application in practice has been erratic at best. In International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa, Kurt Mills develops a typology of responses to mass atrocities, investigates the limitations of these responses, and calls for such responses to be implemented in a more timely and thoughtful manner. Mills considers four cases of international responses to mass atrocities--in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Darfur--putting the cases into historical context and analyzing them according to the typology, showing how the responses interact. Although all are intended to address human suffering, they are very different types of actions and accomplish different things, over different timescales, on different orders of magnitude, and by very different types of actors. But the critical question is whether they accomplish their objectives in a mutually supportive way--and what the trade-offs in using one or more of these responses may be. By expanding the understanding of international responsibilities, Mills provides critical analysis of the possibilities for the international community to respond to humanitarian crises." -- Publisher's description
    Series
    Pennsylvania studies in human rights
    Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Mills, Kurt, author.
    Published
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
    Locale
    Africa, Sub-Saharan
    Afrika söder om Sahara
    Subsaharisches Afrika
    Contents
    Interrogating international responsibilities
    Rwanda: the failure of "never again"
    Democratic Republic of the Congo: protecting civilians?
    Uganda (and beyond): testing the International Criminal Court
    Darfur: the post-World Summit test
    Realizing R2P³: labeling, institutions, and authority.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references pages (269-292) and index.
    Interrogating international responsibilities -- Rwanda: the failure of "never again" -- Democratic Republic of the Congo: protecting civilians? -- Uganda (and beyond): testing the International Criminal Court -- Darfur: the post-World Summit test -- Realizing R2P³: labeling, institutions, and authority.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780812247374
    081224737X
    Physical Description
    xiii, 302 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

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