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Is there a duty to prevent atrocities? If so, what should it consist of?

How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This article argues that a duty to prevent mass atrocities has emerged from changes in international law and international politics since 1945, and examines why that duty remains difficult to discharge. The four categories of atrocity crime named at the World Summit of 2005 are set out and distinguished, with attention to the disputed boundaries of the definition of genocide and to the anomalous status of ethnic

cleansing, which has never been codified as a crime in its own right. The legal framework is then…

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