New book: Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

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Type: 
Online Digital Resources
Location: 
District Of Columbia, United States
Subject Fields: 
European History / Studies, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Human Rights, Humanities, Political Science
 
 

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce the digital release of the Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention. Written by Dr. Scott Straus, this resource is geared toward practitioners and students seeking an introduction to key issues in the field.  The volume analyzes the normative, legal, and operational opportunities and challenges associated with preventing genocide and mass atrocities to date, and identifies unresolved issues in this nascent field of study and practice. Fundamentals also offers important insights into opportunities to strengthen our understanding and ability to implement policies and programs to stop the world’s worst violence.
 

An advance digital copy is now available so that instructors might review and plan for course inclusion. Please go to www.ushmm.org/fundamentals to download your free digital copy. You can review the table of contents below.

The final digital version of this Museum publication (that will incorporate final style and grammatical edits) will be available in late January. The hard copy of this book will be available for sale on Amazon by February 24, 2016. To receive a notification when it is published, please e-mail preventionbook@ushmm.org.

 

Foreword . v

Preface vii

Advisory Board . xi

INTRODUCTION FROM THE MARGINS TO GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT

A Short History of Atrocity Prevention . 1

APPENDIX 1: Text of UN Genocide Conventions 19

APPENDIX 2: Text of United Nations Charter, Articles 1 and 2 . 21

APPENDIX 3: Text of World Summit Paragraphs on R2P 23

APPENDIX 4: Text of Presidential Study Directive (PSD) 10 . 24

PART I CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS

CHAPTER 1 What Is Genocide? What Is Mass Atrocity? 27

APPENDIX 5: Crimes Against Humanity, Rome Statute, Article 7 . 43

APPENDIX 6: War Crimes, Rome Statute, Article 8 . 45

PART II THE CAUSES OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITY

CHAPTER 2 Risk Factors 51

CHAPTER 3 Triggers and Escalation . 73

CHAPTER 4 Perpetrators . 91

PART III THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITY

CHAPTER 5 An Emerging Policy Framework on Atrocity Prevention . 113

CHAPTER 6 Tools and Approaches 131

CHAPTER 7 Successes, Risks, and Unknowns 149

CHAPTER 8 The Atrocity Prevention Community:

States and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

PART IV AFTER GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITY

CHAPTER 9 Rebuilding States and Societies

after Atrocity 187

CHAPTER 10 Justice and Accountability after Genocide

and Mass Atrocities 205

PART V CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 11 The Future of Atrocity Prevention . 231

Bibliography 241

 

Contact Info: 

Amanda Rooney Stierli, Program Coordinator, Civic and Defense Initiatives, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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