Preventing The Bloodbath

Author : Samuel Totten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135925918

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The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide by Samuel Totten Pdf

This volume is comprised of over 2,300 annotations on a wide array of issues and topics germane to the subject of preventing the atrocities of genocide and managing these conflicts when they do arise. Samuel Totten brings together in one comprehensive collection the research and findings in various fields, such as political science, sociology, history, and psychology, to enable specialists in genocide studies, peace studies, and conflict resolution to benefit from the insights of a diverse range of scholars and foster an understanding of how the various components of genocide studies connect. Among the topics included are: key conventions, international treaties, and covenants genocide early warning signals and forecasting risk data bases sanctions peacekeeping missions conflict resolution the International Criminal Court realpolitik vis-à-vis the issue of genocide prevention and intervention key non-governmental agencies key governmental and UN bodies working on these important issues. In addition to the annotations, Totten frames the bibliography with a major essay that introduces the reader to the subject of prevention and intervention of genocide, raising a host of critical issues regarding the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of various approaches germane to issues of managing these conflicts.

Author : Unni Turrettini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643135656

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Betraying the Nobel by Unni Turrettini Pdf

A revelatory examination of the Nobel Peace Prize—the most prestigious, admired, and controversial honor of our time. The Nobel Prize, regardless of category, has always been surrounded by politics, intrigue, even scandal. But those pale in comparison to the Peace Prize. In Betraying the Nobel, Norwegian writer Unni Turrettini completely upends what we thought we knew about the Peace Prize—both its history and how it is awarded. As 1984’s winner, Desmond Tutu, put it, “No sooner had I got the Nobel Peace Prize than I became an instant oracle.” However, the Peace Prize as we know it is corrupt at its core. In the years surrounding World War I and II, the Nobel Peace Prize became a beacon of hope, and, through its peace champions, became a reference and an inspiration around the world. But along the way, something went wrong. Alfred Nobel made the mistake of leaving it to the Norwegian Parliament to elect the members of the Peace Prize committee, which has filled the committee with politicians more loyal to their political party’s agenda than to Nobel’s prize's prerogative. As a result, winners are often a result of political expediency. Betraying the Nobel will delve into the surprising, and often corrupt, history of the prize, and examine what the committee hoped to obtain by its choices, including the now-infamously awarded Cordell Hull, as well as Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, and Barack Obama. Turrettini shows the effects of increased media attention, which have turned the Nobel into a popularity prize, and a controversial and provocative commendation. The selection of winners who are not peace champions according to the mandates of Alfred Nobel’s will creates distrust. So does lack of transparency in the selection process. As trust in leadership and governance reaches historic lows, the Nobel Peace Prize should be a lodestar. Yet the modern betrayal of the Nobel’s spirit and intentions plays a key role in keeping societal dysfunctions alive. But there is hope. Betraying the Nobel will show how the Nobel Peace Prize can again become a beacon for leadership, a catalyst for change, and an inspiration for rest of us to strive for greatness and become the peace champions our world needs.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045328767

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Foreign Assistance Act of 1972 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Cambodia
ISBN : PURD:32754074679683

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the Cambodia-Vietnam debate by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations Pdf

Author : Gary Dorrien
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300231359

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Breaking White Supremacy by Gary Dorrien Pdf

The award–winning author of The New Abolition continues his history of black social gospel with this study of its influence on the Civil Rights movement. The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on U.S. society, but failed to break white supremacy. The symbol of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr., soared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with him. Yet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlooked. In his latest book, Gary Dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance today. This part of the story centers around King and the mid-twentieth-century black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers and fulfilled it, inspiring and leading America’s greatest liberation movement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015069011222

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The Week in Germany by Anonim Pdf

Author : Magdalena Pacholska
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839101366

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Complicity and the Law of International Organizations by Magdalena Pacholska Pdf

This timely book examines the responsibility of international organizations for complicity in human rights and humanitarian law violations. It comprehensively addresses a lacuna in current scholarship through an analysis of the mandates and modus operandi of UN peace operations, offering workable normative solutions and striking a balance between the UN’s duty not to contribute to international law violations and its need to discharge mandated tasks in a highly volatile environment.

Author : Majbritt Lyck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134066476

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Peace Operations and International Criminal Justice by Majbritt Lyck Pdf

This new volume provides the first thorough examination of the involvement of peace enforcement soldiers in the detention of indicted war criminals. The book firstly addresses why peace enforcement missions need to be involved in detaining indicted war criminals. This discussion includes an analysis of how the securing of justice and transitional justice is incorporated into the UN’s approach to peace-building. It also explores IFOR’s, SFOR’s and KFOR’s activities aimed at detaining indicted war criminals, before turning to an analysis of how the detaining of indicted war criminals is incorporated into peace enforcement doctrines, mandates and rules of engagement. The book then outlines the mechanisms that need to be established in order to enable peace enforcers to effectively arrest war criminals in the areas where they are deployed. It concludes with a discussion of the prospects for the involvement of peace enforcement soldiers in the detention of indicted war criminals, and of what lessons future peace enforcement missions can learn from the experience of IFOR, SFOR and KFOR.

Author : Noële Crossley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317307051

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Evaluating the Responsibility to Protect by Noële Crossley Pdf

This book evaluates the extent to which the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has consolidated as a norm in international society. A consolidated norm in international society is defined here as a regularised pattern of behaviour that is widely accepted as appropriate within a given social context. The analysis is based on the assumption that the R2P could be regarded as a consolidated norm if it were applied consistently when genocide and other mass atrocities occur; and if international responses routinely conformed to the core principles inherent in the R2P: seeking government consent, multilateralism, prevention and regionalism. This book employs Finnemore and Sikkink’s norm lifecycle model to determine the putative norm’s degree of consolidation, with in-depth case studies of the international responses to crises in Darfur and Kenya serving to illuminate the findings. It advances the argument that, whilst the R2P had fully emerged as a prospective norm by 2005, it has not yet fully consolidated as an international norm. The R2P has been remarkably successful at pervading the international discourse but has been somewhat less successful at consistency in implementation in terms of adherence to its core principles as outlined above (the qualitative dimension of the R2P). Furthermore, it has been least successful, to date, in terms of consistency across cases in terms of resolve and tenacity. The volume concludes with a reflection on the norm's progress so far, and its prospects for further consolidation, assuming the R2P continues on its current trajectory. This book will be of much interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect, humanitarian intervention, international law, security studies and IR.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Cambodia
ISBN : MINN:31951P00679393D

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The Vietnam-Cambodia Emergency, 1975 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations Pdf

Author : H. Eric Schockman,Vanessa Hernández,Aldo Boitano
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781838671938

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Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century by H. Eric Schockman,Vanessa Hernández,Aldo Boitano Pdf

Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners from the worlds of leadership, followership, transitional justice, and international law, this research provides a blueprint of how people-led, bottom-up, grassroots efforts can foster reconciliation and a more peaceful world.

Author : A. Walter Dorn,Jonathan Matloff,Jennifer Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Crimes against humanity
ISBN : LCCN:2003619180

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Preventing the Bloodbath by A. Walter Dorn,Jonathan Matloff,Jennifer Matthews Pdf

Author : Alain Brunet,Franck César
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030680763

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Contract Management by Alain Brunet,Franck César Pdf

This book presents the latest findings relating to behavioral economics and the digital tools applied to contract management. There has been a decisive change in the role of contracts in the past decade, with contracts being transformed from purely legal necessities designed to protect against worst-case scenarios into tools for optimizing ongoing and mutually profitable business relationships with customers. There is an increasing emphasis on tight contracts, where time-risk and additional costs are passed on to the prime contractor, who may suffer heavy penalties in the event of non-performance. Contracts shape the behavior of the parties involved and as such have a major impact on project success. The contract manager’s goals are to protect the interests of the company and its shareholders by minimizing the company’s financial and contractual liabilities and to maximize its profitability while ensuring end-user satisfaction. The contract is usually written before the design is fully developed, and there is often a mismatch between contractual specifications and what the customer actually wants. Good contract management entails preserving the rights of the contractor by ensuring all parties respect their contractual obligations; providing advice to the project managers and engineering team; preparing profitable amendments to contracts or change requests; maintaining good record-keeping in the event that claims arise; filing notices when necessary; and guiding the project to a profitable conclusion. Like the ancient Chinese game of Go, moves made early in the game (notification of events) can shape the nature of a potential conflict one hundred moves later (arbitration threat). Contract management can also smooth the relationship between partners, allowing well-balanced “don’t-trade-a-dollar-for-a-penny” contracts to be managed through an established process rather than as sporadic events (we cannot claim to be in control of our business if we are not in control of the contracts on which it depends). Managing a contract with a mix of incomplete manuals, fragmented information, and poor planning can drive companies to “reinvent the wheel.” Contract management promotes a three-phase sequence to streamline information flows across the contract lifecycle, from the bid phase to performance, project closeout, and final payments.

Author : André Gerolymatos
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498564090

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The British and the Greek Resistance, 1936–1944 by André Gerolymatos Pdf

Between 1941 and 1944, the Germans and the Italians imposed a brutal occupation of Greece. This, as well as the outbreak of famine, drove many Greeks to join a variety of resistance movements in the mountains. The British government anticipated the German occupation of Europe and created the Special Operations Executive (SOE). One directorate of the SOE was responsible for partisan activity in the mountains and another directorate focused on encouraging espionage and sabotage in Greek cities. Over 3000 Greeks and British operated espionage networks that made a significant contribution to the war effort in the Mediterranean. Unfortunately the work of the spy and saboteur working in the shadows remained classified until the end of the twentieth century. The release of SOE documents in the twenty-first century provides an amazing insight into how intelligence operations were a critical part of the Allied victory of the Second World War. The aim of the book is to bring to life the stories of the ghosts of the shadow war.

Author : Peter Hallward
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789601152

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Damming the Flood by Peter Hallward Pdf

Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas ("the flood") sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed dictatorial rule. Damming the Flood analyzes how and why the Lavalas governments led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide were overthrown, in 1991 and again in 2004, by the enemies of democracy in Haiti and abroad. The elaborate campaign to suppress Lavalas was perhaps the most successful act of imperial sabotage since the end of the Cold War. It has left the people of Haiti at the mercy of some of the most rapacious political and economic forces on the planet. Updated with a substantial new afterword that addresses the international response to the earthquake, Damming the Flood is both an invaluable account of recent Haitian history and an illuminating analysis of twenty-first-century imperialism.