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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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Incidenta notiunii conventionale de genocid [Incidence conventional notion of genocide]

BARAT, Iuliana - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 1-2 (2009) June, pp. 26-38

After more than forty years of near dormancy, the 1948 Genocide Convention has suddenly become a vital legal tool in … the international campaign against impunity. The fact of genocide is as old as humanity, wrote Jean-Paul Sartre. The law …, however, is considerably younger. The explanation is that, historically, genocide has gone unpunished. The General Assembly on …

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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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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, A “FOOLPROOF” DEATH PENALTY ACT, AND THE POLITICS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (English version)

MURPHY, Russell G. - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 1-2 (2011) June, pp. 13-42

A majority of American states recognize the death penalty as a lawful and constitutional sentence for the most serious crimes committed by the most dangerous and blameworthy criminals. However, in recent years, numerous flaws in capital punishment systems have caused courts in the United States...

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CONSIDERATII PRIVIND CONCEPTUL DE CONSTITUTIONALIZARE A DREPTULUI - CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CONCEPT OF CONSTITUTIONALIZATION OF LAW (Romanian version)

IFTIMIEI, ANDRA - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 1 (2010) December, pp. 40-47

This article focuses on how human rights are putting their imprint on the civil and criminal law. Moreover the Constitution is a basis of legitimacy of all branches of law. After the analysis is the question of whether constitutional law is the basis of unifying the national law. We can not talk...

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RESPECTAREA DREPTURILOR OMULUI IN PROCEDURA EXTRADARII - HUMAN RIGHTS MAINTENANCE IN THE PROCEDURE OF EXTRADITION (Romanian version)

ULIANOVSCHI, GHEORGHE; ULIANOVSCHI, IRINA - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 1 (2010) December, pp. 105-109

The analysis of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights gives basis for concluding that the authorities of the states, in their activity of international cooperation in combating crime, are obliged to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Convention for...

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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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The Impact of Human Rights Organizations on Naming and Shaming Campaigns

Meernik, James; Aloisi, Rosa; Sowell, Marsha; Nichols, … - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 56 (2012) 2, pp. 233-256

Given the myriad of human rights abuses that occur globally and daily, why are some nations on the receiving end of a substantial amount of international opprobrium, while others receive far less attention and condemnation? The authors contend that the increasing presence of human rights...

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