Protection Against Genocide

by Riemer, Neal

• ISBN13: 9780275965150
• ISBN10: 0275965155
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text

Summary

Riemer and his contributors argue for a global human rights regime capable of preventing, combatting, and punishing genocide. Such a regime, they assert, will benefit from significant international changes, serious attention to prevention, effective monitoring, keenly targeted sanctions, a standing anti-genocidal police force, a philosophy of just humanitarian intervention, and a permanent international criminal tribunal.

Author Biography

Helen Fein, Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University, is Director, Institute for the Study of Genocide and Associate, Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. John Fousek, Ph.D., History, Cornell University, is Executive Director, World Order Models Project, and Associate Director, Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. George A. Lopez, Ph.D., Syracuse University is Professor of Government, and faculty fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. Saul Mendlovitz, J. D., University of Chicago, is Dag Hammarskjold Professor of Peace and World Order Studies at the Rutgers University School of Law and Codirector of the World Order Models Project. Neal Riemer, Ph.D., Harvard University, is Andrew V. Stout Professor of Political Philosophy, Emeritus, Drew University. Douglas W. Simon, Ph.D., University of Oregon, is Professor of Political Science at Drew University. Michael Joseph Smith, Ph.D., Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs and Director, Program in Political and Social Thought, at the University of Virginia. David Wippman is Associate Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
The Urgent Need for a Global Human Rights Regime	1	(16)
Neal Riemer
The Evolution of the International System and Its Impact On Protection Against Genocide	17	(24)
Douglas W. Simon
The Three P's of Genocide Prevention: With Application to a Genocide Foretold---Rwanda	41	(26)
Helen Fein
Economic Sanctions and Genocide: Too Little, Too Late, and Sometimes Too Much	67	(18)
George A. Lopez
Can an Internaional Criminal Court Prevent and Punish Genocide?	85	(20)
David Wippman
A UN Constabulary to Enforce the Law on Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity	105	(18)
Saul Mendlovitz
John Fousek
On Humanitarian Intervention	123	(18)
Michael Joseph Smith
Conclusion	141	(20)
Neal Riemer
Appendix 1: United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	161	(4)
Appendix 2: United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights	165	(6)
Select Bibliography	171	(12)
Index	183	(8)
About the Editor and Contributors	191