Last Lectures on the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's note; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; PART I Fundamental concerns: humanity's responsibility; 1 Using norms, knowledge, and narratives for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide; 2 To act or not to act immediately? Is there really a question?; 3 Between empathy and fear: recalibrating incentives for atrocity prevention; 4 When outsiders are threats: how to move beyond a culture of fear to a shared sense of humanity.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor's note -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I Fundamental concerns: humanity's responsibility -- 1 Using norms, knowledge, and narratives for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide -- 2 To act or not to act immediately? Is there really a question? -- 3 Between empathy and fear: recalibrating incentives for atrocity prevention -- 4 When outsiders are threats: how to move beyond a culture of fear to a shared sense of humanity -- PART II Critical factors vis- à- vis issues of prevention and intervention -- 5 Preventing deadly conflict -- 6 The foot soldiers of evil: on the importance of individual perpetrators in genocide prevention -- 7 Protection of all peoples: ending double standards and embracing justice -- 8 Genocide and/or ethnic cleansing: recognition, prevention, and the need for definitional clarity? -- PART III Lack of political will is not the only obstacle to preventing genocide -- 9 Will the world ever be interested in stopping atrocities? -- 10 How three common misconceptions get in the way of preventing genocide -- 11 Need to quit playing along the edges and get serious! -- PART IV Commentary on past and current approaches to prevention and intervention -- 12 Whither anti- genocide efforts? Some personal reflections -- 13 The final battle -- 14 Questioning the turn towards the "responsibility to prevent" -- 15 Why the R2P backfires (and how to fix it) -- PART V Innovations still to be considered/implemented -- 16 Local structures of prevention and the obligation to prevent genocide as an individual right -- 17 The Al Capone strategy: follow the money -- 18 Reducing genocides, one region at a time