LEADER 04670cam a2200565 i 4500001 259756 005 20240621231458.0 008 150310s2015 paub b 001 0 eng 010 2015009521 019 905566858 020 9780812247374 |q(alkaline paper) 020 081224737X |q(alkaline paper) 035 (OCoLC)ocn906936347 035 259756 042 pcc 043 fb----- 049 LHMA 040 PU/DLC |beng |erda |cPAU |dDLC |dSTF |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dBUF |dBDX |dCLU |dOCLCQ |dS3O |dOCLCO |dUTV |dOCLCQ |dZLM |dCHVBK |dOCLCO |dOCLCA |dLHM 050 00 JZ6369 |b.M55 2015 100 1 Mills, Kurt, |eauthor. 245 10 International responses to mass atrocities in Africa : |bresponsibility to protect, prosecute, and palliate / |cKurt Mills. 264 1 Philadelphia : |bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, |c[2015] 300 xiii, 302 pages : |bmaps ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Pennsylvania studies in human rights 504 Includes bibliographical references pages (269-292) and index. 505 0 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. 520 "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 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Humanitarian intervention |zAfrica, Sub-Saharan |xInternational cooperation |vCase studies. 650 0 Conflict management |zAfrica, Sub-Saharan |xInternational cooperation |vCase studies. 650 0 Genocide intervention |zAfrica, Sub-Saharan |xInternational cooperation |vCase studies. 650 0 Intervention (International law) |vCase studies. 651 4 Afrika söder om Sahara. 650 7 Intervention (folkrätt) |2sao 650 7 Humanitär intervention. |2sao 650 7 Skyldighet att skydda. |2sao 650 7 Internationellt samarbete. |2sao 650 7 Grymheter. |2sao 610 27 Vereinte Nationen. |2gnd |0(DE-588)333-5 650 7 Humanitäre Intervention. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4202065-7 650 7 Internationale Kooperation. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4120503-0 650 7 Völkerrechtliches Verbrechen. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4204241-0 650 7 Responsibility to Protect. |2gnd |0(DE-588)7742862-6 651 7 Subsaharisches Afrika. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4053770-5 655 7 Case studies. |2lcgft 830 0 Pennsylvania studies in human rights. 852 0 |bstacks |hJZ6369 |i.M55 2015