Last Lectures on the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide

Foreword: Ervin Staub; Introduction: Samuel Totten; Part I. Fundamental Concerns; A. Humanity's Responsibility; 1. "Using Norms, Knowledge, and Narratives for the Prevention of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide" Johanna Ray Vollhardt; 2. "To Act or Not to Act Immediately? Is There Really a Question?" Agnieszka Bienczyk-Missala; 3. "Between Empathy and Fear: Recalibrating Incentives for Atrocity Prevention" Eyal Mayroz; 4. "When Outsiders Are Threats: How to Move Beyond a Culture of Fear to a Shared Sense of Humanity" Carla Barqueiro; B. Critical Factors Vis-a-vis Issues of Prevention and Intervention; 5."Preventing Deadly Conflict" I. William Zartman; 6. "The Foot Soldiers of Evil - On the Importance of Individual Perpetrators in Genocide Prevention" Timothy Williams; 7. "Protection of All Peoples: Ending Double-Standards and Embracing Justice" Stephen Zunes; 8. "Genocide and/or Ethnic Cleansing: Recognition, Prevention and the Need for Definitional Clarity?" Clotilde Pegorier; Part II. Lack of Political Will Is Not the Only Obstacle to Preventing Genocide; 9. "Will the World Ever Be Interested In Stopping Atrocities?" Kurt Mills; 10. "How Three Common Misconceptions Get in the Way of Preventing Genocide" Lawrence Woocher; 11. "When Are We All Truly Going to Get Serious?" Samuel Totten; Part III. Commentary on Past and Current Approaches to Prevention and Intervention; 12. "Whither Anti-Genocide Efforts? Some Personal Reflections" Thomas G. Weiss; 13. "The Final Battle" Alex J. Bellamy; 14. "Questioning the Turn Towards the "Responsibility to Prevent" Aidan Hehir; 15. "Why the R2P Backfires (And How to Fix It)" Alan J. Kuperman; Part IV. Innovations Still to Be Considered/Implemented; 16. Local Structures of Prevention and the Obligation to Prevent Genocide as an Individual Right Ekkehard Strauss; 17. "The Al Capone Strategy: Follow The Money" Rebecca Tinsley; 18. "Reducing Genocides, One Region At a Time" Edward Kissi; 19. "The Time Has Come for Genocide Scholars to Innovate: The Critical Need to Develop and Implement New and Unique Tools for Prevention" Israel W. Charny; 20. "Putting Moral Agency and the Precautionary Principle to Work for the Prevention of Genocide and Its Incitement" Elihu D Richter; 21. "Rethinking Genocide Prevention" Gregory H. Stanton; 22. "Subterranean Atrocities: A Twenty-First Century Challenge for Mass Atrocity Prevention" Charles H. Anderton; 23. "Using Satellites to Detect Mass Human Rights Violations: A Call for the International Community to Implement an Early Warning Detection System" Andrew Marx; Part V. Holding Perpetrators Responsible: No Impunity; 24. "No More Lies: Genocide Prevention through Perpetrator Accountability" Melanie O'Brien; 25. "Lessons Staring Us in the Face" Linda Melvern; Part VI. Now What?; 26. "Resilient Societies and Atrocity Prevention" Stephen McLoughlin; 27. "Whither Genocide Prevention?" Karen E. Smith; 28. "Why the (Western) Cavalry Isn't Coming and What We Can Do About It" Maureen S. Hiebert; 29. "'So the World May Know All': The Importance of Education for Genocide Prevention" Deborah Mayersen; 30. "All the Candidates Agreed About Darfur, and Then ...." John Hagan; 31. "What's It Going To Take? Last Thoughts on Preventing Genocide" John Hubbel Weiss; 32. "From the Clenched Fist to the Open Hand: A Last Lecture and First Lesson from Critical Genocide Prevention Studies" Alexander Laban Hinton; 33. "Genocide Structures the Very World We Live In" Henry C. Theriault; 34. "My Last Lecture: Some Central Elements of Prevention" Ervin Staub; 35. "The Withdrawal of States from the International Criminal Court: A Potential Set Back in Relation to the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity?" Etienne Ruvebana; 36. "Anti-Genocide" Christopher Powell; 37. "So Where Do We Go From Here? A View from Bosnia and Herzegovina" Edina Becirevic; 38. "Double Standards and the Quest for Justice" William A. Schabas; 39. "Making Sense of the Senseless" Michael Barnett; Afterword Mukesh Kapila