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Before the attack. The that information was never made public as president obama made the case for war. Then the rwandan genocide 20 years later. Ands a multifaceted daunting challenge, but we cannot afford to succumb to cynicism or despair because the alternative to preventive or preventing genocide is bearing the bodies in the aftermath. That is not what we want. Commemorations are being held in rwanda today to mark the anti94 genocide that left over 800,000 people dead over a span of 100 days...

Turkey was applying sarin gas to Syrian Rebels in the months before the attack. The that information was never made public as president obama made the case for war. Then the rwandan genocide 20 years later. Ands a multifaceted daunting challenge, but we cannot afford to succumb to cynicism or despair because the alternative to preventive or preventing genocide is bearing the bodies in the aftermath. That is not what we want. Commemorations are being held in rwanda today to mark the anti94 genoci...

Thirty years after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Nature met with researchers who are gaining insights that could help to prevent other atrocities and enable healing. Thirty years after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Nature met with researchers who are gaining insights that could help to prevent other atrocities and enable healing.

Introducing a collaboration with the Programme on International Peace and Security at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.

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The Sahel region of West Africa suffers from escalating cycles of inter-communal violence that have resulted in countless deaths of innocent people. As this worsening situation continues to spread, it has come to be one of the most prominent threats to security and socio-political stability in the region.

The mass killings haunt US foreign policy and distort how we understand ethnic violence.

In Ukraine, genocide is once again in the news. As in nearly every recent humanitarian crisis, in which there has been large-scale violence against civilians, the question arises: is this genocide? Trying to settle the debate definitively is a fool’s errand, argues the author. Genocide is a contested and multivalent concept. The solution is not to jettison the term, but rather to expect discrepant usage and to be as clear as possible in how we employ the « g » word.

In 2011, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services wrote a bill that would allow well-behaved prisoners the chance to shorten their time behind bars. Eleven years later, that same department is applying the resulting law in a way neither the state senator who sponsored the bill nor the then-director of Nebraska’s prisons intended

Nebraska prison officials drafted a 2011 law aimed at letting well-behaved prisoners get out sooner. Now the state says the laws wording doesnt allow what the authors intended.