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Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities
Kate Ferguson
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Description for Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities
Hardback. Most atrocities are committed by states yet they hide their culpability by recourse to paramilitary forces, as Ferguson explains. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPWS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Through exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, Kate Ferguson exposes the relationships between paramilitaries, state commands, local communities, and organised crime present in modern mass atrocities, from Rwanda and Darfur to Syria and Myanmar. Visible paramilitary participation in modern mass atrocities has succeeded in masking the continued dominance of the state in a number of violent crises. Irregular combatants have participated so significantly in committing atrocity crimes because political elites benefit from using ... Read more
Paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Through exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, Kate Ferguson exposes the relationships between paramilitaries, state commands, local communities, and organised crime present in modern mass atrocities, from Rwanda and Darfur to Syria and Myanmar. Visible paramilitary participation in modern mass atrocities has succeeded in masking the continued dominance of the state in a number of violent crises. Irregular combatants have participated so significantly in committing atrocity crimes because political elites benefit from using ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849048118
SKU
V9781849048118
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About Kate Ferguson
Dr Kate Ferguson is a foreign policy expert specialising in atrocity prevention and civilian protection. She is Co-Executive Director of Protection Approaches, a charity she co-founded in 2014 to change how the world views hate and other forms of identity-based violence - and by so doing, change the way communities, governments and international institutions respond to and prevent it. She ... Read more
Reviews for Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities
'Architectures of Violence is an important book for anyone committed to the prevention of mass atrocities. Kate Ferguson challenges pervasive assumptions about where these crimes come from and sets us on the road to more effective prevention strategies.'
Adama Dieng, UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide and former registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 'This ... Read more
Adama Dieng, UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide and former registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 'This ... Read more