Anti-Genocide Activists and the Responsibility to Protect

Despite the global condemnation following recent examples of genocide and ethnic cleansing, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities. Anti-genocide Activists and the Responsibility to Protect is the first book to study what motivates anti-genocide activists to call for the use of violence to end violence, using two groups in particular: East Timor solidarity activists and Responsibility to Protect...
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Despite the global condemnation following recent examples of genocide and ethnic cleansing, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities. Anti-genocide Activists and the Responsibility to Protect is the first book to study what motivates anti-genocide activists to call for the use of violence to end violence, using two groups in particular: East Timor solidarity activists and Responsibility to Protect (R2P)-advocates. The book provides a fascinating insight into the worldviews of anti-genocide activists which will interest human rights activists, development practitioners and researchers of humanitarian studies.