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A peculiar and fascinating aspect of many responses to mass atrocities is the creative and eclectic use of religious language and frameworks. Some crimes are so extreme that they 'cry out to heaven', drawing people to employ religious vocabulary to make meaning of and to judge what happened, to deal with questions of guilt and responsibility, and to re-establish hope and trust in their lives. Moreover, in recent years, religious actors have become increasingly influential in worldwide contexts of conflict-resolution and transitional justice. This collection offers a critical assessment of the possibilities and problems pertaining to attempts to bring religious - or semi-religious - allegiances and perspectives to bear in responses to the mass atrocities of our time: When and how can religious language or religious beliefs and practices be either necessary or helpful? And what are the problems and reasons for caution or critique? In this book, a group of distinguished scholars explore these questions and offer a range of original explanatory and normative perspectives.

Atrocities --- Violence --- History --- Religious aspects --- Law --- General and Others --- Military atrocities --- Cruelty --- War crimes

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As the first edited collection of its kind, devoted exclusively to the preventive dimension of R2P, 'The Responsibility to Prevent: Overcoming the Challenges of Atrocity Prevention' intends to inform and shape the growing debate on how to approach atrocity crime prevention and build the capacities needed to operationalise the imperatives at the heart of R2P.

Atrocities --- Responsibility to protect (International law) --- Prevention. --- International law --- Military atrocities --- Cruelty --- War crimes

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In the two-and-a-half decades since the end of the Cold War, policy makers have become acutely aware of the extent to which the world today faces mass atrocities. In an effort to prevent the death, destruction and global chaos wrought by these crimes, the agendas for both national and international policy have grown beyond conflict prevention to encompass atrocity prevention, protection of civilians, transitional justice and the responsibility to protect. Yet, to date, there has been no attempt to address the topic of the prevention of mass atrocities from the theoretical, policy and practicing standpoints simultaneously. This volume is designed to fill that gap, clarifying and solidifying the present understanding of atrocity prevention. It will serve as an authoritative work on the state of the field.

Atrocities -- Prevention. --- Genocide -- Prevention. --- War crimes -- Prevention. --- Atrocities --- War crimes --- Genocide --- Prevention. --- Crime --- Military atrocities --- Cruelty

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History of Eastern Europe --- anno 1900-1999 --- Bulgaria --- Turks --- -Turks --- -Atrocities --- -Cruelty --- War crimes --- Turkish people --- Ethnology --- Turkic peoples --- History --- -History --- -Bulgaria --- Ethnic relations. --- Atrocities --- -Military atrocities --- Cruelty --- Military atrocities

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Mass atrocities were once a common occurrence in East Asia. Yet, over the past three decades, mass atrocities have declined in East Asia to the point of near elimination. This work explains how and why.

Atrocities --- Political violence --- Prevention. --- East Asia --- Politics and government. --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Military atrocities --- Cruelty --- War crimes