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The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes consolidates and further develops the evolving field of atrocity studies by combining major mono-, inter-, and multi-disciplinary research on atrocity crimes in one volume encompassing contributions of leading scholars. Atrocity crimes-war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide-are manifestations of large scale and systematic criminality committed within specific political, ideological, and societal contexts. These crimes are committed by a multiplicity of actors against a large number of victims who suffer far-reaching consequences. Scholars studying mass atrocities are scattered not only across disciplines-such as international (criminal) law, international relations, criminology, political science, psychology, sociology, history, anthropology, or demography-but also across the topic-related fields, which are by definition multi- and interdisciplinary but are typically limited to a particular category or aspect of atrocity crimes. This Handbook brings together these strands of scholarship on (mass) atrocities and interrogates atrocity crimes as an overarching category of criminality, while simultaneously keeping an eye on differences among the individual constitutive categories. The Handbook covers topics related to the etiology and causes of atrocities, the actors involved, the harm and victims of atrocity crimes, the reactions to mass atrocities, and in-depth case studies of understudied situations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Atrocities. --- Genocide. --- Atrocities --- Genocide --- Atrocités. --- Génocide. --- Law and legislation. --- Human rights. --- War crimes. --- Crimes against humanity. --- International criminal law. --- Droits de l'homme. --- Crimes de guerre. --- Crimes contre l'humanité. --- Droit international pénal. --- Atrocités. --- Génocide. --- Crimes contre l'humanité. --- Droit international pénal.

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Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative, a meticulous and unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.

Atrocities. --- Eichmann-proces. --- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). --- Holocauste, 1939-1945. --- Nazis --- Nazis. --- Procès (Crimes de guerre) --- War crime trials --- War crime trials. --- War criminals --- War criminals. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Atrocités. --- Eichmann, Adolf, --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- 1939-1945. --- Germany. --- Middle East

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"This book explores, through the lens of the conflict in Syria, why international law and the United Nations have failed to halt conflict and massive human rights violations in many places around the world. The work presents a critical socio-legal analysis of the failures of international law and the United Nations to deal with mass atrocities and conflict. It argues that international law, in the way it is set up and the way it operates, falls short in dealing with these issues in many respects. The argument is that international law is state-centred rather than victim-friendly, is to some extent outdated, is vague and often difficult to understand, and therefore, at times, hard to apply. While various accountability processes have come to the fore recently, processes do not exist to assist individual victims while the conflict occurs, or the abuses are being perpetrated. The book focuses on the problems of international law and the UN, and, in the context of the many enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions in Syria, why nothing has been done to deal with a rogue state that has regularly violated international law. It examines why the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has not been applied, and why it ought to be used, generally and in Syria. It uses the Syrian context to evaluate the weaknesses of the system and why reform is needed. It examines the UN institutional mechanisms, the role they play and why a civilian protection system is needed. It examines what mechanism ought to be set up to deal with the possible one million people that have been disappeared and detained in Syria"--

Humanitarian law --- Responsibility to protect (International law) --- Political persecution --- Disappeared persons --- Detention of persons --- War victims --- Criminal procedure --- Desaparecidos --- Missing persons --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism --- Political repression --- Repression, Political --- Persecution --- Civil rights --- International law --- Humanitarian conventions --- International humanitarian law --- War (International law) --- Law and legislation --- Syria --- Sirii︠a︡ --- Iqlīm al-Sūrī (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Shamālī (United Arab Republic) --- Syrian Region (United Arab Republic) --- سوريا --- Sūriyā --- Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah --- Syrian Arab Republic --- République arabe syrienne --- Sowria --- Syrie --- R.A.S. --- RAS --- Ittiḥād al-Duwal al-Sūrīyah --- Fédération des États de Syrie --- Syrische Arabische Republik --- SAR --- Suryah --- Arabska Republika Syryjska --- Syrien --- Jumhuriya al-Arabya as-Suriya --- Repubblica Araba Siriana --- جمهورية العربية السورية --- Jumhūriyyah al-ʻArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah --- Сірыя --- Siryi︠a︡ --- Сірыйская Арабская Рэспубліка --- Siryĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Сирийската арабска република --- Siriĭskata arabska republika --- Συρία --- Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Συρίας --- Aravikē Dēmokratia tēs Syrias --- 시리아 --- Siria --- סוריה --- רפובליקה הערבית הסורית --- Republiḳah ha-ʻArvit ha-Surit --- シリア --- Shiria --- Сирия --- Сирийская Арабская Республика --- Siriĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Сирія --- Syrii︠a︡ --- Сирійська Арабська республіка --- Syriĭsʹka Arabsʹka respublika --- 敘利亞 --- Xuliya --- United Arab Republic --- History --- Law and legislation. --- Atrocities. --- Politics and government --- Victims of war --- Victims --- Droit humanitaire. --- Responsabilité de protéger (droit international) --- Répression politique. --- Personnes disparues. --- Victimes de guerre. --- Syrie. --- Droit --- Atrocités --- Droit humanitaire --- Répression politique --- Personnes disparues --- Victimes de guerre --- Responsabilité de protéger (droit international) --- Répression politique --- Atrocités