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Architectures of Violence
- The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities
Engelsk Hardback
Architectures of Violence
- The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities
Engelsk Hardback

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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. Exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur, and the ongoing violence in Syria, Kate Ferguson exposes the relationships between paramilitaries, state commands, local communities, and organised crime. She presents these ''architectures of violence'' as a way of comprehending how the various structures of command and control fit together into domestic and international webs of support enabling and encouraging irregular and paramilitary violence. 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 unconventional forces to fulfil ambitions that violate international law--and international policy responses are hindered when responsibility for violence is ambiguous. Ferguson''s inquiry into these overlooked dynamics of mass violence unveils substantial loopholes in current atrocity prevention architecture. Until these are addressed, state authorities will likely continue to use irregular combatants as perpetrators of atrocity.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781849048118
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1849048118
Udg. Dato:
26 nov 2020
Længde:
34mm
Bredde:
226mm
Højde:
148mm
Forlag:
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
26 nov 2020
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