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A half-century ago, the international community made a solemn promise to 'never again' allow genocide to go unchallenged. In the early days of the Post-cold War 'New World Order', though, international leaders failed to stop horrific genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda, chiefly because Western leaders lack the 'political will' to use decisive force to suppress ongoing genocide. Despite increased attention to war crimes issues in the Clinton Administration, and increased rhetoric about its commitment to halting genocide, American military force policy still gives lowest priority to responding to gross abuses of human rights. In Genocide and the Global Village , Kenneth Campbell explains why the international community fails so miserably to prevent, suppress, and punish contemporary genocide. The book integrates the scattered pieces of this complex problem - political, military, legal, and ethical - into a more complete and clearer picture of the challenge facing the world today. Campbell engages in a complex, multi-level analysis of genocide's impact upon world order, and the interplay of politics and morality in the international community's determination of the appropriate role for military force in halting genocide and securing an emerging global civil society. Campbell recommends practical steps the international community can take to greatly improve its response the next time genocide occurs - a next time that will occur.

Explores how urban residents define neighborhood & whether their definitions influence their answers to other survey questions, drawing on data from a 1988 survey in Nashville, TN (N = 994 individuals from 514 households). Analysis reveals that territorial meanings predominate among respondents when neighborhood is considered in the abstract, although few definitions are exclusively territorial in nature. At a more concrete level, individuals living near one another often give the same name for their neighborhood of residence but differ markedly in their reports of the area's physical size & complexity. Such differences do not have much impact on answers to vague-referent questions about neighborhood life (ie, questions in which the concept of neighborhood is left undefined). The fact that at least some survey results appear relatively insensitive to respondents' definitional idiosyncrasies should reassure researchers, though it is recommended that a few items be included in survey instruments to help clarify people's understanding of neighborhood & other "quasi-factual" geographic concepts. 2 Tables, 28 References. Adapted from the source document.