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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEAOFAN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINALCOURTAND THE ROME STATUTE

Uzun, Elif - In: Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences 3 (2003) 2, pp. 25-48

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been established with the hope to help put an end to the past century’s cycle of impunity for the most serious crimes that have been condemned by the international community. It will decide on the criminal responsibility of individuals and act as a...

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Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings

Easterly, William - 2006

Using a newly assembled dataset spanning from 1820 to 1998, we study the relationship between the occurrence and cruelty of episodes of mass killing and the levels of development and democracy across countries and over time. We find that massacres are more likely at intermediate levels of income...

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Antisocial Capital

McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2014) 5, pp. 865-893

community that experienced violence during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, I show that individual participation in the violence was …

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To Kill or to Protect

Colaresi, Michael; Carey, Sabine C. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 52 (2008) 1, pp. 39-67

Contemporary studies of genocide have found military capabilities to be inconsistent predictors of state …. We hypothesize that unconstrained leaders are more likely to use their putative security forces to initiate genocide and … remain in power. An analysis of state failures that lead to genocide robustly supports the idea that the effect of increased …

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Testing the Double-Genocide Thesis for Central and Southern Rwanda

Verwimp, Philip - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 47 (2003) 4, pp. 423-442

Results of a research project with household-level data on the demographic impact of genocide and civil war in Rwanda … household survey project before the genocide. The absolute number of Hutu killed in the sample is half of the number of Tutsi …

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Managing Threat, Cost, and Incentive to Kill: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Intervention in Mass Killings

Kathman, Jacob D.; Wood, Reed M. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 55 (2011) 5, pp. 735-760

How do third-party interventions affect the severity of mass killings? The authors theorize that episodes of mass killing are the consequence of two factors: (1) the threat perceptions of the perpetrators and (2) the cost of implementing genocidal policies relative to other alternatives. To...

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Shared Human Rights Norms and Military Conflict

Peterson, Timothy M.; Graham, Leah - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 55 (2011) 2, pp. 248-273

The normative transfer thesis posits that systematic discrimination, inequality, and repression are indicative of violent norms within states, which extend to the realm of foreign policy. In this article, the authors contend that the pacifying influence of similarity conditions the impact of...

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Divergent Incentives for Dictators

Conrad, Courtenay R. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2014) 1, pp. 34-67

Although they are arguably the worst violators of human rights, dictators sometimes commit to international human rights treaties like the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT) to appease their domestic opposition. Importantly, however, executives facing effective judiciaries must...

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