Preventing Mass Atrocities
From a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) to a Right to Assist (RtoA) Campaigns of Civil Resistance
Published on 21. May 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
66 pages
978-1-943271-17-7 (ISBN)
Description
Events of the last decade demand new approaches to atrocity prevention that are adaptable, innovative and independent of a state-centered doctrine. With the aim of reducing risk factors such as civil war, Ackerman and Merriman argue for a new normative framework called The Right to Assist (RtoA), which would strengthen international coordination and support for nonviolent civil resistance campaigns demanding rights, freedom and justice against non-democratic rule.
RtoA would:
1. engage a wide range of stakeholders such as NGOs, states, multilateral institutions and others;
2. bolster various factors of resilience against state fragility; and
3. incentivize opposition groups to sustain commitment to nonviolent strategies of change.
The adoption of this doctrine can reduce the probability of violent conflict that significantly heightens atrocity risk, while increasing the prospects for constructive human development.
RtoA would:
1. engage a wide range of stakeholders such as NGOs, states, multilateral institutions and others;
2. bolster various factors of resilience against state fragility; and
3. incentivize opposition groups to sustain commitment to nonviolent strategies of change.
The adoption of this doctrine can reduce the probability of violent conflict that significantly heightens atrocity risk, while increasing the prospects for constructive human development.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
273 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-943271-17-7 (9781943271177)
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Persons
El Dr. Peter Ackerman es fundador del International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), y co-autor de los libros: A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (2001) y Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century (1994). Fue editor en serie y principal asesor de contenido de la serie, "A Force More Powerful," dos veces nominada al Emmy, y que traza la historia de la resistencia civil en el siglo XX. Fue también productor ejecutivo de otras películas sobre resistencia civil, incluyendo el documental de PBS, "Bringing Down a Dictator," sobre la caída del dictador Slobodan Milosevic, y por el cual recibió el Premio Peabody en 2003 y el Premio de ABC News Video Source de la Asociación Internacional de Documentales en 2002. El Dr. Ackerman es co-presidente del Comité Asesor Internacional del Instituto para la Paz de los Estados Unidos y es parte del Comité Ejecutivo de la Junta del Atlantic Council.