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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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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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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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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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Integrity, respect for others, and ethics – three essential leadership qualities

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Ethics, respect for others and integrity (embracing respect for the law), should definitely be pre requisites for leadership. Unfortunately many so called leaders do not understand or practise these values. Some leaders who are held with high regard and esteem at the workplace are prepared to...

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Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities

Timmermann, Martina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

With North Korea going nuclear, tensions ever present in the Taiwan Strait, and growing posturing over territories thought to be rich in resources, the question of how lasting peace, order, stability and prosperity can be achieved in Northeast Asia has become increasingly important....

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Dilemas de decisión (Nozick) y compañías militares de seguridad privada en Colombia

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Using two theoretical categories of the work of Robert Nozick: (a) protection agencies and (b) minimal state, to illustrate by analogy with the CMSP, the dilemmas arising from the use of private military in regions with civil wars and conflicts irregular. We see that the relations preserved PBMC...

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Zur Kluft zwischen Verfassungsgebung und Verfassungswirklichkeit im Demokratisierungsprozess Benins

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996

The process of democratization in Benin has been praised as a model for the whole of francophone Africa. Initiated by an independent National-Conference the process of democratic renewal started with a bloodless coup of representatives of different groups of the civil society. Declared aims of...

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