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Genocide and mass atrocities in Asia : legacies and prevention
- Title
- Genocide and mass atrocities in Asia : legacies and prevention / edited by Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
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- 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 > 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 I. The Legacies of Atrocities in Asia: 1. An ongoing legacy of atrocity: torture and the Indonesian state / Annie Pohlman; 2. International civil society as agent of protection: responses to the famine in East Timor / Clinton Fernandes; 3. Maximizing transitional justice opportunities: the case of East Timor's CAVR / Heather Castel; 4. Transitional justice time: Uncle San, Aunty Yan, and outreach at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal / Alexander Laban Hinton; 5. Humanitarian intervention and the legacies of Security Council (In)action: East Pakistan (1971) and East Timor (1976-79) / Phil Orchard -- Part II. Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia and Globally: 6. Political realism, sovereignty and intervention: is genocide prevention really possible in a world of nation states? / Paul R. Bartrop; 7. Political instability and genocide: comparing causes in Asia and the Pacific and globally / Benjamin E. Goldsmith, Dimitri Semenovich and Arcot Sowmya; 8. Discourses on violence: constraints and challenges for mediators in Asia / Dale Bagshaw and Damien Coghlan; 9. "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.
- ISBN
- 9780415645119 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 0415645115 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 9780203380857 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 0203380851 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012047356
- OCLC
- ocn800036192
- SCSB-14481291
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library