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Africa’s Deadliest Conflict:Media Coverage of the Humanitarian Disaster in the Congo and the United Nations Response, 1997–2008
written by Blake C. Roberts, Tom Pierre Najem, E. Donald Briggs and Walter E. Soderlund (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012), 278 page(s)
Africa’s Deadliest Conflict deals with the complex intersection of the legacy of post-colonial history—a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions—and changing norms of international intervention associated with the idea of human security and the responsibility to protect (R2P). It attempts to explain why, des...
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written by Blake C. Roberts, Tom Pierre Najem, E. Donald Briggs and Walter E. Soderlund (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012), 278 page(s)
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Africa’s Deadliest Conflict deals with the complex intersection of the legacy of post-colonial history—a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions—and changing norms of international intervention associated with the idea of human security and the responsibility to protect (R2P). It attempts to explain why, despite a softening of norms related to the sanctity of state sovereignty, the international community dealt so ineffectively with a bruta...
Africa’s Deadliest Conflict deals with the complex intersection of the legacy of post-colonial history—a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions—and changing norms of international intervention associated with the idea of human security and the responsibility to protect (R2P). It attempts to explain why, despite a softening of norms related to the sanctity of state sovereignty, the international community dealt so ineffectively with a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which between 1997 and 2011 claimed an estimated 5.5 million. In particular, the book focuses on the role of mass media in creating a will to intervene, a role considered by many to be the key to prodding a reluctant international community to action.Included in the book are a primer on Congolese history, a review of United Nations peacekeeping missions in the Congo, and a detailed examination of both US television news and New York Times coverage of the Congo from 1997 through 2008. Separate conclusions are offered with respect to peacekeeping in the Age of R2P and on the role of mass media in both promoting and inhibiting robust international responses to large-scale humanitarian crises.
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Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Blake C. Roberts, Tom Pierre Najem, E. Donald Briggs, Walter E. Soderlund
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Topic / Theme
The Congo and its Borders, Mass media, Second Congo War, 1998-2003, First Congo War, 1996-1997, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
written by Gérard Prunier, fl. 1984 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009, originally published 2009), 570 page(s)
The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a swee...
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written by Gérard Prunier, fl. 1984 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009, originally published 2009), 570 page(s)
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The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Gérard Prunier, fl. 1984
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic / Theme
Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide (1994), Genocide, Politics, International relations, Refugees, Economic conditions, War, Post Genocide Rwanda, 1994-, Rwandan Civil War and Genocide, April 7–July 15, 1994, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, History, International Response, Origins, Congolese, Rwandans, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
written by Kang Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968- and Pierre Rigoulot, 1944- (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001, originally published 2000), 265 page(s)
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for 're-education.' Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of th...
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written by Kang Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968- and Pierre Rigoulot, 1944- (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001, originally published 2000), 265 page(s)
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North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for 're-education.' Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insigh...
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for 're-education.' Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.
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Global Issues
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Book
Contributor
Yair Reiner, fl. 2001
Author / Creator
Kang Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968-, Pierre Rigoulot, 1944-
Date Published / Released
2000, 2001
Publisher
Basic Books
Topic / Theme
Korea and its Borders, Social conflict, Internment camps, Political prisoners, Politics & Policy, North Koreans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2005 by Perseus Book Group
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A Biography of No Place
written by Kate Brown, fl. 2004 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005, originally published 2004), 322 page(s)
This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Unio...
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written by Kate Brown, fl. 2004 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005, originally published 2004), 322 page(s)
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This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany, and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationalism. By the 1950s, this "no place" emerged as a Ukrainian heartland, an...
This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany, and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationalism. By the 1950s, this "no place" emerged as a Ukrainian heartland, and the fertile mix of peoples that defined the region was destroyed.Kate Brown’s study is grounded in the life of the village and shtetl, in the personalities and small histories of everyday life in this area. In impressive detail, she documents how these regimes, bureaucratically and then violently, separated, named, and regimented this intricate community into distinct ethnic groups.Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, A Biography of No Place reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the center of history. We are given, in short, an intimate portrait of the ethnic purification that has marked all of Europe, as well as a glimpse at the margins of twentieth-century “progress.”
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Kate Brown, fl. 2004
Date Published / Released
2004, 2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Topic / Theme
Eastern European Borders, Cultural identity, Nationalism, Genocide, Ethnic relations, Stalin's Great Purge, 1936-1938, Holocaust, 1939-1945, World War II, 1939-1945, Geography, Politics & Policy, History, Jews, Ukrainians, Polish, Germans, Russians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2004 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Harvard University Press.
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Boundary Changes of the Saar as Proposed by the French, December 4, 1946
written by United States. Department of State. Office of Intelligence Coordination and Liaison. Map Division, in Records of the Office of Strategic Services (RG226), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (04 December 1946), Box 3, 4218: Boundary Changes of the Saar as Proposed by the French , 26 page(s)
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written by United States. Department of State. Office of Intelligence Coordination and Liaison. Map Division, in Records of the Office of Strategic Services (RG226), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (04 December 1946), Box 3, 4218: Boundary Changes of the Saar as Proposed by the French , 26 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
04 December 1946, 1946
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
United States. Department of State. Office of Intelligence Coordination and Liaison. Map Division
Topic / Theme
Germany and its Borders, France and its Borders, Political geography, Military occupation, Political boundaries, World War II, 1939-1945, Geography, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Branding Humanity
written by Amal Hassan Fadlalla, fl. 2000 (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018), 311 page(s)
The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory. Celebrities and other notable public figures participated in human rights campaigns to combat violence in the region. But how do local activists and those throughout the Sudan...
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written by Amal Hassan Fadlalla, fl. 2000 (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018), 311 page(s)
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The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory. Celebrities and other notable public figures participated in human rights campaigns to combat violence in the region. But how do local activists and those throughout the Sudanese diaspora in the United States situate their own notions of rights, nationalism, and identity?Based on interviews with Sudanese soci...
The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory. Celebrities and other notable public figures participated in human rights campaigns to combat violence in the region. But how do local activists and those throughout the Sudanese diaspora in the United States situate their own notions of rights, nationalism, and identity?Based on interviews with Sudanese social actors, activists, and their allies in the United States, the Sudan, and online, Branding Humanity traces the global story of violence and the remaking of Sudanese identities. Amal Hassan Fadlalla examines how activists contest, reshape, and reclaim the stories of violence emerging from the Sudan and their identities as migrants. Fadlalla charts the clash and friction of the master-narratives and counter-narratives circulated and mobilized by competing social and political actors negotiating social exclusion and inclusion through their own identity politics and predicament of exile. In exploring the varied and individual experiences of Sudanese activists and allies, Branding Humanity helps us see beyond the oft-monolithic international branding of conflict. Fadlalla asks readers to consider how national and transnational debates about violence circulate, shape, and re-territorialize ethnic identities, disrupt meanings of national belonging, and rearticulate notions of solidarity and global affiliations.
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Global Issues
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Book
Author / Creator
Amal Hassan Fadlalla, fl. 2000
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Human rights, Public opinion, Sudanese Civil War, 1983-, Darfur Conflict, Sudan, 2003-, Anthropology, Sociology, Sudanese, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Building the International Criminal Court
written by Benjamin N. Schiff, 1952- (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 322 page(s)
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first and only standing international court capable of prosecuting genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. This book analyzes the ICC, melding historical perspective, international relations theories, and observers' insights to explain the Court's origins, c...
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written by Benjamin N. Schiff, 1952- (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 322 page(s)
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first and only standing international court capable of prosecuting genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. This book analyzes the ICC, melding historical perspective, international relations theories, and observers' insights to explain the Court's origins, creation, innovations, dynamics, and operational challenges.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Benjamin N. Schiff, 1952-
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, War crimes, International laws, International justice, History, Law, Origins, Transitional Justice, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Armed Conflict and Displacement: The Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons un...
written by Mélanie Jacques, fl. 2008; edited by John S. Bell, fl. 2007 and James Crawford, fl. 2007, in Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2012, originally published 2012), 296 page(s)
The issue of the protection of refugees and displaced persons caught up in war has rarely been examined from the standpoint of international humanitarian law. This study not only addresses the topical issue of displacement in war, but also analyses the international humanitarian law regime and its shortcomings.
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written by Mélanie Jacques, fl. 2008; edited by John S. Bell, fl. 2007 and James Crawford, fl. 2007, in Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2012, originally published 2012), 296 page(s)
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The issue of the protection of refugees and displaced persons caught up in war has rarely been examined from the standpoint of international humanitarian law. This study not only addresses the topical issue of displacement in war, but also analyses the international humanitarian law regime and its shortcomings.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Contributor
John S. Bell, fl. 2007, James Crawford, fl. 2007
Author / Creator
Mélanie Jacques, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Series
Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Topic / Theme
Border Events and Areas Context, War, Human rights, International laws, Refugees, Law, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, War Crimes in Internal Armed Conflicts
written by Eve La Haye, fl. 2008, in Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 446 page(s)
Does international law make individuals responsible for perpetrating war crimes during civil wars? If so, how can that responsibility be enforced? Eve La Haye discusses the feasibility of national and international prosecutions and the means to bring to justice those who have committed such crimes.
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written by Eve La Haye, fl. 2008, in Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 446 page(s)
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Does international law make individuals responsible for perpetrating war crimes during civil wars? If so, how can that responsibility be enforced? Eve La Haye discusses the feasibility of national and international prosecutions and the means to bring to justice those who have committed such crimes.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Eve La Haye, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Series
Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Topic / Theme
General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, International laws, War crimes, War crimes tribunals, Civil war, History, Law, Transitional Justice, Origins, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Caravans to Oblivion: The Armenian Genocide, 1915
written by G. S. Graber, fl. 1995 (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 1996, originally published 1996), 228 page(s)
Acclaimed author and historian G.S. Graber has crafted a searing narrative of "the forgotten genocide." Using newly available sources, Graber offers definitive proof - denied even today by the Turkish government - that there was nothing less than a centrally organized government attempt to systematically eliminate...
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written by G. S. Graber, fl. 1995 (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 1996, originally published 1996), 228 page(s)
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Acclaimed author and historian G.S. Graber has crafted a searing narrative of "the forgotten genocide." Using newly available sources, Graber offers definitive proof - denied even today by the Turkish government - that there was nothing less than a centrally organized government attempt to systematically eliminate the Armenian population in 1915. Placing the events of this effort within a broader historical context, the author brings insight and...
Acclaimed author and historian G.S. Graber has crafted a searing narrative of "the forgotten genocide." Using newly available sources, Graber offers definitive proof - denied even today by the Turkish government - that there was nothing less than a centrally organized government attempt to systematically eliminate the Armenian population in 1915. Placing the events of this effort within a broader historical context, the author brings insight and perspective to the political, economic, and cultural upheaval that led to the murder of over one million Armenian men, women, and children. Firsthand accounts recall the climate that ignited the flames of anti-Armenian sentiment as the Ottoman Empire collapsed and a new leadership emerged. The political party of the Young Turks, Ittihad ve Teraki (the Turkish Committee of Union and Progress), espoused the notion of Turanism, a mythic glorification of Turkish ethnic identity, and was devoted to restoring Turkey's shattered national pride. And even though Armenians had distinguished themselves as productive and loyal citizens in times of peace and able-bodied soldiers in times of war, they were now branded as traitorous enemies, destroying Turkey from within. The tragic fate of the Armenian people would be sealed by the political maneuvering of foreign powers eager to capitalize on the fall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Graber examines how and why the West - principally France and Great Britain - was eager to look the other way. Following a pattern that the engineers of modern genocide would repeat time and time again, the Turks systematically gathered Armenian men and used them as slave labor before executing them en masse. The women and children were then packed into caravans for "relocation." Most would die along the way from disease and exposure. Those who survived would be shot on some arid plain, which would become their final destination. The slaughter of the Armenians, and the diplomatic backsliding that precipitated it, would serve as an all-too-efficient blueprint. In the twentieth century, genocides decimated over 119 million people worldwide - 84 million more than the number who died in both world wars and all the revolutions and civil wars fought in this century combined. More than a compelling chronicle, Caravans to Oblivion offers chilling insight into how genocide happens.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
G. S. Graber, fl. 1995
Date Published / Released
1996
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Topic / Theme
Ottoman Empire and Armenia (1914-1922), Turk, Armenian, Slavery, Ethnic conflict, Atrocities, Genocide, Armenian Massacre, Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916, Politics & Policy, Sociology, History, Origins, Documentation of Crimes, Turkish, Armenians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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