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The author argues that international criminal law assigns individual responsibility to those who deliberately or recklessly create, prolong, or inflict faminogenic conditions. After demonstrating with three case studies how famines often arise out…
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The prevailing view in the case-law interprets the respective “intent to destroy” requirement as a special or specific intent (dolus specialis) stressing its volitional or purpose-based tendency. A historical, literal, systematic and teleological…
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The term Responsibility to Protect' (R2P) has dominated debate on humanitarian intervention since the publication in 2001 of the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS). Today R2P' has become a…
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Democide (genocide & mass murder) in the twentieth century is examined through analysis of 8,200 compilations of data on war, domestic violence, genocide, mass murder, & related events, 1900-1987. Democide in the twentieth century has been estimated…
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And in each instance, large segments of the population were enticed to join in the often ritualistic actions that destroyed their neighbors.This book offers ...
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Why do some wars result in the intentional killing of large numbers of civilians? In this article we examine the incidence of mass killing in all wars from 1945 to 2000. In the statistical analysis of our data set of 147 wars, we find strong…
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