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Massacre de Srebrenica --- Crime contre l'humanité --- Génocide --- Justice --- Histoire

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Civil war --- Crimes against humanity --- Humanitarian intervention --- Crimes contre l'humanité --- Crimes contre l'humanité. --- Droit d'ingérence humanitaire --- Droit d'ingérence humanitaire. --- Guerre civile --- Guerre civile.

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The UN has adopted a "responsibility to protect" mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars - but there is no institutional basis for carrying out that mandate. Patricia Marchak argues that unless would-be interveners have an understanding of local issues, agents who speak local languages, and a military force fully prepared to undertake both peaceful and military missions on short notice, UN and other attempts to intervene are unlikely to succeed. While UN-sponsored international criminal courts have been successful in obliging leaders to accept responsibility for their actions during bitter internal wars, Marchak argues that they may not be the best means of bringing truth and reconciliation to survivors. Based on the principle of individual responsibility, they are not designed to deal with collective crimes against humanity and genocide, nor are they good instruments for dealing with the breakdown of societies. Bringing together her own field interviews, documentary material, and secondary sources, Marchak critically assesses the recent history of international interventions and criminal prosecutions. She examines three cases in detail: Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia in its current forms of Bosnia and Serbia, considers their international context prior to and during internal wars, and argues that each case has to be understood in its own context and history - there is no common pattern and no easy fix that could mend broken societies after the wars. No Easy Fix is of interest to anyone concerned with how the international community deals with civil wars that involve serious crimes against humanity.

Humanitarian intervention --- Civil war --- Crimes against humanity --- Droit d'ingérence humanitaire. --- Guerre civile. --- Crimes contre l'humanité. --- Droit d'ingérence humanitaire --- Guerre civile --- Crimes contre l'humanit --- Droit d'ingerence humanitaire. --- Crimes contre l'humanite. --- Droit d'ingerence humanitaire --- Crimes contre l'humanite

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Natural disasters --- Epidemics --- Disasters --- Crimes against humanity --- Catastrophes naturelles --- Epidémies --- Catastrophes --- Crimes contre l'humanité --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopédies --- Encyclopedias. --- Natural disasters - Encyclopedias

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What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing the study of culture. It focuses on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism's harshest critics. In short, Edward Slingerland argues that in order for the humanities to progress, its scholars need to take seriously contributions from the natural sciences - and particular research on human cognition - which demonstrate that any separation of the mind and the body is entirely untenable. The author provides suggestions for how humanists might begin to utilize these scientific discoveries without conceding that science has the last word on morality, religion, art, and literature. Calling into question such deeply entrenched dogmas as the 'blank slate' theory of nature, strong social constructivism, and the ideal of disembodied reason, What Science Offers the Humanities replaces the human-sciences divide with a more integrated approach to the study of culture.

Philosophy of science --- Philosophy. --- Science and the humanities. --- Humanity. --- Human body --- Philosophie --- Sciences et sciences humaines --- Humanité (Morale) --- Corps humain --- Philosophy --- Science and the humanities --- Humanity --- Body, Human --- Human body. --- Humanité (Morale) --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Ethics --- Humanities and science --- Humanities --- Mental philosophy --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion