Browsing by Subject "Genocide"

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A critical overview of the responsibility to protect
(2024-05) Vatansever, Nagihan
This thesis focuses on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) concept and its predecessor, humanitarian intervention. It analyzes humanitarian intervention and Responsibility to Protect in order to understand the R2P’s reference to human insecurities. The thesis aims to understand the gap between how R2P was framed and how it is put into practice. Although R2P claims to be a solution to human insecurities and was framed to be an improvement in humanitarian interventions, it fails to respond human insecurities in cases of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Therefore, in this thesis, it is questioned “whether R2P is an improvement upon humanitarian intervention.” The cases examined in the thesis indicate how R2P’s referent of security differs in every different event.
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Collective action and the peculiar evil of genocide
(2006) Wringe, B.
There is a common intuition that genocide is qualitatively distinct from, and much worse than, mass murder. If we concentrate on the most obvious differences between genocidal killing and other cases of mass murder it is difficult to see why this should be the case. I argue that many cases of genocide involve not merely individual evil but a form of collective action manifesting a collective evil will. It is this that explains the moral distinctiveness of genocide. My view contrasts with one put forward by Claudia Card, though we both agree that the notion of ‘‘social death’’ plays a significant role here.
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Hannah Arendt: Opposing Views
(1978) Jay, Martin
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Kuzey Irak'tan Türkiye'ye toplu Kürt göçleri ve sosyal, politik sonuçları
(Bilkent University, 2024) Aydoğan, Ayberk; Çelik, Ahmet Deha; Kerestecioğlu, Emir; Tepebaşı, Sena; Sevinç, Yusuf Ali
Bu makalede, 1988 ve 1991 yıllarında yaşanan Kürt Soykırımı sonucunda Irak'tan Türkiye'ye gerçekleşen toplu göçlerin siyasi, ekonomik ve sosyolojik etkileri ve sonuçları tartışılmıştır. Bu süreçte Türkiye'nin sınırlarını açma konusunda izlediği politikalar, uluslararası baskılar karşısında aldığı kararlar ve bu kararların uygulanma süreçleri incelenmiştir. Ayrıca, yabancı milletlerin Türkiye'ye ve göçmenlere karşı izlediği politikalar da detaylı bir şekilde ele alınmıştır. Bu kapsamda, Türkiye'nin mültecilere yönelik tutumu, yerel halkla mülteciler arasındaki etkileşimler ve bu göçlerin Türk dış politikası ile güvenlik politikaları üzerindeki geniş kapsamlı etkileri değerlendirilmiştir. Ayrıca, bu göçlerin Türkiye'nin toplumsal yapısında ve kültürel dinamiklerinde yarattığı değişimler, demografik yapı üzerindeki etkileri ve ekonomik kaynakların dağılımı gibi konular da detaylı bir şekilde incelenmiştir. Bunlara ek olarak da yaşanan göçlerin hala Türkiye üzerindeki etkileri de incelenmiştir.
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The United Nations and Rwanda : a case study in humanitarian intervention
(2001) Kurtuluş, Yıldız Tuğba
In 1994 Rwandan genocide approximately 1 million people were killed in three months. This genocide took place in the presence of the United Nations forces deployed there. In spite of the signals of the coming genocide, international community could not do much to prevent or stop this genocide. Therefore it was a “failure”. This study aims to identify the principal political and strategic constraints explaining the failure of the UN and international community as a whole to address the genocide in Rwanda. It examines the events that led to UN intervention and describes UN action. It also aims at determining the position of Rwanda case in the evolution of the doctrine and practice of humanitarian intervention. This study asks questions like “How can we define the UN intervention in Rwanda?”, “How does the Rwanda case reveal the difficulties the UN face with, in terms of humanitarian intervention?”, “What are the reasons for this failure?” and “What lessons should be taken from the experience?”. It concludes that in the absence of a general doctrine guiding humanitarian intervention, and a solid mechanism capable of taking action when necessary, the decision on whether or not to intervene will be caught up in politics. Rwanda experience suggests that intervention is most likely where perceived national and ethical interests converge, less so when they conflict.