Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention

Sheri P. Rosenberg was Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Cardozo Law Institute on Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR) and the Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic. Her publications include 'Genocide By Attrition: Efficient and Silent' in Genocide Matters (2013) and 'Responsibility to Protect: A Framework for Prevention' in the journal Global Responsibility to Protect (2009). Tibi Galis is a political scientist. He is the Executive Director of the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, a New York-based NGO that helps governments prevent genocide worldwide. Alex Zucker is an editor, writer and translator of Czech literature. He has received an English PEN Award for Writing in Translation, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the ALTA National Translation Award. He currently serves as co-chair of the PEN America Translation Committee.

• Preface Roméo Dallaire; Introduction Sheri Rosenberg, Tibi Galis and Alex Zucker; Part I. Fluidities: 1. What is being prevented? Genocide, mass atrocity, and conceptual ambiguity in the anti-atrocity movement Scott Straus; 2. The pistol on the wall: how coercive military intervention limits atrocity prevention policies Bridget Conley-Zilkic; 3. Operationalizing the 'atrocity prevention lens': making prevention a living reality Alex Bellamy; 4. The 'narrow but deep approach' to implementing the responsibility to protect: reassessing the focus on international crimes Jennifer Welsh; 5. The role of social psychology in preventing group-selective mass atrocities Johanna Vollhardt; 6. Gender, sexualized violence, and the prevention of genocide Elisa von Joeden-Forgey; Part II. Above Chronology: 7. Audacity of hope: international criminal law, mass atrocity crimes, and prevention Sheri Rosenberg; 8. Historical dialogue and the prevention of atrocity crimes Elazar Barkan; 9. Through the barrel of a gun: can information from the global arms trade contribute to genocide prevention? Andrew Feinstein; 10. The individual responsibility to protect Edward Luck and Dana Luck; 11. Resource predation, contemporary conflict, and the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities Michael Klare; 12. Deconstructing risk and developing resilience: the role of inhibitory factors in genocide prevention Deborah Mayersen; 13. Military means of preventing mass atrocities Dwight Raymond; Part III. Acting Out Prevention: 14. Performing prevention: civil society, performance studies, and the role of public activism in genocide prevention Kerry Whigham; 15. Early warning for mass atrocities: tracking escalation parameters at the population level Jennifer Leaning; 16. Mobilizing economic sanctions for preventing mass atrocities: from targeting dictators to enablers George Lopez; 17. Corporate behavior and atrocity prevention: is aiding and abetting liability the best way to influence corporate behavior? Owen Pell and Kelly Bonner; 18. A short story of a long effort: the United Nations and the prevention of mass atrocities Ekkehard Strauss; 19. The practical use of early warning and response in preventing mass atrocities and genocide: experiences from the Great Lakes region Ashad Sentongo; 20. The Argentinian national mechanism for the prevention of genocide: a case study in contemporary preventive institution-building Ramiro Riera.