Genocide and mass atrocities in Asia : legacies and prevention / edited by Deborah Mayerson and Annie Pohlman
- Published
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 204 pages ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Mayersen, Deborah and Pohlman, Annie
- Series
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- 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
- ISBN
- 9780415645119 (hardback : alkaline paper)
0415645115 (hardback : alkaline paper) - Note
- "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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