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Author:   Barbara Harff ,  Ted Robert Gurr (University of Maryland, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9781138956025

ISBN 10:   1138956023
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   17 September 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction [Barbara Harff ] 2. Genocides and Mass Atrocities: Can They Be Prevented? [Yehuda Bauer] Part 1: Risk Assessment, Early Warning, and Early Response 3. Countries at Risk of New Genocides and Politicides after 2016 – And Why [Barbara Harff] 4. Atrocity Crimes as a Disease: A Statistical Approach to Early Detection [Birger Heldt] 5. Early Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities? Evidence from Conflict Analysis [Ted Robert Gurr] Part 2: Mobilizing International, Regional, and Local Responses 6. Ending the Silence on War Crimes: A Journalist’s Perspective [Roy Gutman] 7. Preventing Mass Atrocities at the Local Level: Using Village Committees for Conflict Prevention in Mauritania [Ekkehard Strauss] 8. In the Absence of Will: Could Genocide in Darfur have been Halted or Mitigated? [Eric Reeves] 9. Atrocity Prevention from Obama to Trump [James P. Finkel] 10. Prevention through Political Agreements: The Community of Sant’Egidio and Central African Republic [Andrea Bartoli and Mauro Garofolo] 11. An African Regional Perspective on Prevention [Liberata Mulamula and Ashad Sentongo] 12. Roots of Ambivalence: The United Nations, Genocide, and Mass Atrocity Prevention [Edward C. Luck] 13. Who is in Charge? Emerging National and Regional Strategies for Prevention [Andrea Bartoli and Tetsushi Ogata] 14. Guidelines for Prevention of Genocides and other Mass Atrocities: An Overview [Ted Robert Gurr]

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Barbara Harff is Professor of Political Science Emerita at the US Naval Academy and was distinguished visiting professor at Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She co-founded the Genocide Prevention Advisory Network and served for a decade on the US Government’s State Failure (later Political Instability) Task Force. In 2013 she received the Raphael Lemkin Award from the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. Ted Robert Gurr was Distinguished University Professor of Political Science (Emeritus) at the University of Maryland; Founder and Consultant of the Minority at Risk Project; Former Senior Consultant to the US Government’s Political Instability Task Force; Former Olof Palme Visiting Professor, HSFR, Uppsala University.

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