Research Catalog

Title

Genocide and mass atrocities in Asia : legacies and prevention / edited by Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman.

Publication

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mayersen, Deborah
• Pohlman, Annie

Description

xiii, 204 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 40

Uniform Title

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 40.

Subject

• Genocide > Asia > History > 20th century
• Atrocities > Asia > History > 20th century
• Mass murder > Asia > History > 20th century
• Political violence > Asia > History > 20th century
• Psychic trauma > Social aspects > Asia
• Genocide > Prevention > Government policy > Asia
• Asia > Politics and government > 1945-
• Asia > History, Military > 20th century
• Asia > Social conditions
• Asia > Social policy

Note

• "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman -- Part 1. The Legacies of Atrocities in Asia -- An Ongoing Legacy of Atrocity : Torture and the Indonesian State / Annie Pohlman -- International Civil Society as Agent of Protection : Responses to the Famine in East Timor / Clinton Fernandes -- Maximizing Transitional Justice Opportunities : The Case of East Timor's CAVR / Heather Castel -- Transitional Justice Time : Uncle San, Aunty Yan, and Outreach at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal / Alex Hinton -- Humanitarian Intervention and the Legacies of Security Council (In) action : East Pakistan (1971) and East Timor (1976-1979) / Phil Orchard -- Part 2. Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia and Globally -- Political Realism, Sovereignty and Intervention : Is Genocide Prevention Really Possible in a World of Sovereign States? / Paul Bartrop -- Political Instability and Genocide : Comparing Causes in Asia and the Pacific and Globally / Benjamin Goldsmith, Dimitri Semenovich and Arcot Sowmya -- Discourses on Violence : Constraints and Challenges for Mediators in Asia / Dale Bagshaw and Damien Coghlan -- "Never Again" or Again and Again : The Genocide Convention, the Responsibility to Protect and Mass Atrocity Prevention / Deborah Mayersen -- Conclusion / Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman.

Call Number

JFE 13-8090

ISBN

• 9780415645119 (hardback : alkaline paper)
• 0415645115 (hardback : alkaline paper)
• 9780203380857 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 0203380851 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2012047356
• 40022471866

OCLC

800036192

Title

Genocide and mass atrocities in Asia : legacies and prevention / edited by Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman.

Publisher

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 40

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 40.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mayersen, Deborah, editor.

Pohlman, Annie, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40022471866

Research Call Number

JFE 13-8090