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The Responsibility to Protect - Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Gareth Evans has been president and CEO of the International Crisis Group since 2000 and was foreign minister of Australia from 1988 to1996. Co-chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-01), which initiated the Responsibility to Protect concept, he has since led the movement for its worldwide adoption and application. Evans has served on many other global bodies including the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change (2003-04) and the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Committee on the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (2006-present), and was named in 2008 to co-chair the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. His numerous publications include eight other books and a prizewinning Foreign Policy article on cooperative security. Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Klappentext Never again! the world has vowed time and again since the Holocaust. Yet genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shock our consciences —from the killing fields of Cambodia to the machetes of Rwanda to the agony of Darfur. Zusammenfassung Never again! the world has vowed time and again since the Holocaust. Yet genocide! ethnic cleansing! and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shock our consciences -from the killing fields of Cambodia to the machetes of Rwanda to the agony of Darfur.

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Authors Gareth Evans
Publisher Brookings Institution Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.09.2008
 
EAN 9780815725046
ISBN 978-0-8157-2504-6
No. of pages 200
Dimensions 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
Subjects Non-fiction book
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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