Defining the Four Mass Atrocity Crimes

Preventing future mass atrocities around the world

... definitions of the four atrocities covered by the 'Responsibility to Protect'. Excerpts from the UN, Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes.

U.S. Atrocity Risk Assessment Framework - State Department

For ease of illustration, these risk factors are grouped into four broad categories – governance, conflict history, economic conditions, and ...

Deterring Mass Atrocity Crimes: The Cause of Our Era

The 1998 Rome Statute of the ICC further defines war crimes and crimes ... Applegarth and Block reckon that ninety-four nations backed R2P positively in the 2009 ...

The Law of Mass Atrocity Response Oper" by Keith A. Petty

... atrocity crimes. Whether it was the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of ... 4, 2011, when President Barack Obama issued a presidential directive to ...

Explaining non-state armed groups perpetration of mass atrocity ...

v). As part of this trend, mass atrocity crimes, defined as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing (GWCE), have ...

National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes

1 ” Atrocity crimes” refers to three legally defined crimes under ... Against Mass Atrocity Crimes meeting held in San Jose. The Ministry of ...

10 - Responsibility of States and Individuals for Mass Atrocity Crimes

The first category consists of shared responsibility for mass atrocities caused by joint or concerted action. This can involve concerted action of two or more ...

A Strategic Framework for Mass Atrocity Prevention

The framework therefore involves four main steps: clarifying what we are trying to prevent (i.e. the scope and nature of mass atrocity crimes); identifying the ...

Field Guide: Helping Prevent Mass Atrocities

Crimes against humanity were originally defined in the charter that established the Nuremberg tribunal in 1945. 4 For example, the State Department's Office of ...

Mass Atrocities and Armed Conflict: Links, Distinctions, and ...

Four principal forms of political crisis provide the catalyst for genocide and mass atrocities. ... Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All. (Washington, DC: ...

Coronavirus: why the world must monitor response of countries that ...

... determining factor of whether mass violence emerges. For ... mass atrocity crimes. Global health · War crimes · Genocide · Coronavirus ...

Tools and Strategies to Prevent Mass Atrocities Committed by ... - CSIS

... four mass atrocities: genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and ... defining feature of extremist groups' strategies and objectives ...

"Genocide and Atrocity Crimes" by David Scheffer

... mass killings or other seeming ... The political use of the term should be separated from its legal definition as a crime of individual responsibility.

Genocide and Mass Atrocities | Council on Foreign Relations

The International Criminal Court was created to bring justice to the world's worst war criminals, but debate over the court still rages. ... Thirty years ago, ...

The Oxford Handbook of Atrocity Crimes

Atrocity crimes—war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide—are manifestations of large-scale and systematic criminality committed within ...

Atrocity Prevention and Response During Armed Conflict

Because atrocity crimes are not limited to the UN definition of genocide ... Rotberg, Mass Atrocity Crimes: Preventing Future Outrages ...

GAAMAC | Platform for Prevention

The Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes (GAAMAC) is a State-led network of States, civil society and academic institutions committed to preventing ...

Compensation in Cases of Mass Atrocities at the International Court ...

Complementarily, the ICC Statute (Article 25(4)) establishes that: “No provision in this Statute relating to individual criminal responsibility ...

Between War and Peace: Preventing Mass Atrocities Outside Armed ...

These devolved structures of violence seek to mask the continued dominance of the state in localised strategies of ethnic cleansing or other ...

Four Ways the U.S. Can Help Prevent Mass Atrocities in Afghanistan

As two of these authors recently noted, the international community has largely come to accept impunity for crimes committed in Afghanistan, a ...