Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention

Autores
Feierstein, Daniel Eduardo
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
Estado
versión publicada
Descripción
Over the last decades, Genocide Studies has entered in a “comfort zone.” With fellowships and support from governments or NGOs, we have developed a very comfortable environment in which the knowledge we produce about genocide prevention is neither critical nor useful. We have become trapped by assumptions we have never checked against reality and many of us have chosen to work inside the circle of those assumptions: genocide and mass violence are horrible acts committed by horrible people; we cannot stand by and do nothing; we have the responsibility to protect civilian populations and that responsibility takes the form, as a last resort, of military intervention. This paper analyzes the validity of such assumptions against different data about the levels of violence in the world and the use of the "human rights" discourse as a new and effective tool (a good idea!!) to justify the same "military interventions" and the violation of the soverignty produced in the past with worst excuses.
Fil: Feierstein, Daniel Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina
Materia
Responsibility to Protect
Transitional Justice
Human Rights
Genocide Prevention
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ar/
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention
title Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention
spellingShingle Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention
Feierstein, Daniel Eduardo
Responsibility to Protect
Transitional Justice
Human Rights
Genocide Prevention
title_short Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention
title_full Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention
title_fullStr Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention
title_full_unstemmed Human Rights? What a Good Idea! From Universal Jurisdiction to Crime Prevention
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Feierstein, Daniel Eduardo
author Feierstein, Daniel Eduardo
author_facet Feierstein, Daniel Eduardo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Responsibility to Protect
Transitional Justice
Human Rights
Genocide Prevention
topic Responsibility to Protect
Transitional Justice
Human Rights
Genocide Prevention
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https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Over the last decades, Genocide Studies has entered in a “comfort zone.” With fellowships and support from governments or NGOs, we have developed a very comfortable environment in which the knowledge we produce about genocide prevention is neither critical nor useful. We have become trapped by assumptions we have never checked against reality and many of us have chosen to work inside the circle of those assumptions: genocide and mass violence are horrible acts committed by horrible people; we cannot stand by and do nothing; we have the responsibility to protect civilian populations and that responsibility takes the form, as a last resort, of military intervention. This paper analyzes the validity of such assumptions against different data about the levels of violence in the world and the use of the "human rights" discourse as a new and effective tool (a good idea!!) to justify the same "military interventions" and the violation of the soverignty produced in the past with worst excuses.
Fil: Feierstein, Daniel Eduardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina
description Over the last decades, Genocide Studies has entered in a “comfort zone.” With fellowships and support from governments or NGOs, we have developed a very comfortable environment in which the knowledge we produce about genocide prevention is neither critical nor useful. We have become trapped by assumptions we have never checked against reality and many of us have chosen to work inside the circle of those assumptions: genocide and mass violence are horrible acts committed by horrible people; we cannot stand by and do nothing; we have the responsibility to protect civilian populations and that responsibility takes the form, as a last resort, of military intervention. This paper analyzes the validity of such assumptions against different data about the levels of violence in the world and the use of the "human rights" discourse as a new and effective tool (a good idea!!) to justify the same "military interventions" and the violation of the soverignty produced in the past with worst excuses.
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