International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Responsibility to Protect, Prosecute, and Palliate

317 Pages·2015·4.125 MB·English

by  Kurt Mills

International Responses
to Mass Atrocities in Africa
PENNSYLVANIA STUDIES IN HUMAN RIGHTS
Bert B. Lockwood, Jr., Series Editor
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INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES
TO MASS ATROCITIES IN AFRICA
Responsibility to Protect, Prosecute, and Palliate
Kurt Mills
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
PHILADELPHIA
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Mills, Kurt, author.
International responses to mass atrocities in Africa :
responsibility to protect, prosecute, and palliate / Kurt Mills.
pages cm. (Pennsylvania studies in human rights)
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 978-0-8122-4737-4 (alk. paper)
1. Humanitarian intervention— Africa, Sub- Saharan—
International cooperation— Case studies. 2. Confl ict
management— Africa, Sub- Saharan— International cooperation—
Case studies. 3. Genocide intervention— Africa, Sub- Saharan—
International cooperation— Case studies. 4. Intervention
(International law)— Case studies. I. Mills, Kurt.
II. Title. III. Series: Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
JZ6369 .M55 2015 2015009521
For Habibi
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It’s not too late
For making a new world
It’s not too late
For making a better world
— Zap Mama, “A New World”
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CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. Interrogating International Responsibilities 13
Chapter 2. Rwanda: Th e Failure of “Never Again” 53
Chapter 3. Demo cratic Republic of the Congo: Protecting Civilians? 83
Chapter 4. Uganda (and Beyond): Testing the International
. Hodgson
Criminal Court 129
Chapter 5. Darfur: Th e Post- World Summit Test 175
Chapter 6. Realizing R2P3: Labeling, Institutions, and Authority 205
Notes 219
Bibliography 269
Index 293
Ac know ledg ments 301