by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Dec 9, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
The Responsibility to Protect doctrine, instituted in 2005, exemplifies the dominant paradigm for action during mass atrocities: international intervention. While R2P places primary responsibility on states, the international community is nonetheless positioned as the...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Aug 16, 2013 | General News
*This is the second of two blog posts that examines local, nonviolent responses to mass atrocities. This post examines specific strategies communities can use. For the first post, click here.”During mass atrocities, most civilians survive with little outside...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Aug 8, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
*This post is the first of two that look at nonviolent, local responses to mass atrocities. This post looks at the causes of mass atrocities and the reasons for nonviolent, local responses.”Local communities, especially when geographically isolated, often need...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Jul 22, 2013 | General News
This post originally appeared on Intern Danny Hirschel-Burns’ personal blog. Here’s the link. My thesis topic, nonviolent responses to mass atrocities and genocide, is not the most straight forward. Few scholars have written about it in depth, and, if I do...
by Danny Hirschel-Burns | Jul 9, 2013 | Burma, General News, Team Announcements
*A version of this post originally appeared on Sentinel Project Intern Danny Hirschel-Burns’ personal blog, The Widening Lens. The Rohingya in Rakhine state, a Muslim ethnic group in a predominantly Buddhist country, are one of the most persecuted minority...
