International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Responsibility to Protect, Prosecute, and Palliate

by Kurt Mills

Book Overview

Since the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations, genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes--mass atrocities--have been explicitly illegal. When such crimes are committed, the international community has an obligation to respond: the human rights of the victims outweigh the sovereignty claims of states that engage in or allow such human rights violations. This obligation has come to be known as the responsibility...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224737X
• ISBN13: 9780812247374
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"