Preventing Mass Human-Rights Violations and Atrocity Crimes

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2021
• Series: Studies in Politics, Security and Society
• Subjects: Comparative politics; Legal system: general; Political science & theory; Public international law; Angieszka; Atrocity; Bieńczyk; Crimes; Human; international institutions; James; Mass; Missala; Preventing; prevention of atrocity crimes; prevention of genocide; responsibility to protect; Richards; Rights; Stanisław; Sulowski; United Nations; Violations; violations of human rights / human rights
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• ISBN: 9783631861356; 9783631868102; 9783631868119; 9783631868126; b19087
• Access: Open Access

The problem of preventing mass human-rights violations and atrocity crimes is one of the key issues in international relations. The book presents the capacity of the international community in the field. The available instruments of early warning, preventive diplomacy as well as legal, economic, and military measures of prevention are included. Cases of Chechnya, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire and Libya allowed the analysis of international engagement in typical situations involving mass human-rights violations and atrocity crimes related to self-determination, ethnic tensions, power struggles and attempts to overthrow a dictatorship. They show that although the international community has significantly increased its capacity to prevent, it has not created a coherent system of prevention.