Alex de Waal, Jens Meierhenrich, and Bridget Conley-Zilkic
Alex de Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School.
Jens Meierhenrich is Senior Lecturer of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Bridget Conley-Zilkic is Research Director at the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School.
Fletcher Forum articles by Alex de Waal, Jens Meierhenrich, and Bridget Conley-Zilkic:
April 3, 2012
by Alex de Waal, Jens Meierhenrich, and Bridget Conley-Zilkic
We thank Dr. Orchard for engaging the issues we raised in our essay and find that a clarification and counter-challenge are in order. First, on the capacity of targeted populations to flee and find asylum, we do not argue that this is always possible, but rather point out that it has at times occurred and [...]
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January 31, 2012
by Alex de Waal, Jens Meierhenrich, and Bridget Conley-Zilkic
By returning to the historical record of how mass atrocities end, this essay examines three crucial narrative frameworks that inform today’s agenda of “protection of civilians” in conflict. The evidentiary record of actual cases of mass atrocity demonstrates a broad range of forces—local, national, and regional—that contribute to ending atrocities. Based on comparative evidence, the authors provide a counter narrative to how mass atrocities end and the dominant civilian protection agenda.
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