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Failing To End Genocide: Structural Factors, Triggers, And Ineffective Responses, Tutku Ayhan Oct 2024

Failing To End Genocide: Structural Factors, Triggers, And Ineffective Responses, Tutku Ayhan

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Why do ongoing genocides persist despite global condemnation? This paper examines the challenge of ending ongoing genocides and argues that the persistence of genocides can be largely attributed to the interaction of structural factors and triggers with inadequate responses at the national, regional, and international levels. The analysis focuses on the genocidal experiences of the Yezidi and Rohingya communities, which were triggered by the 2014 attacks in Sinjar, Iraq, and the 2017 actions in Rakhine State, Myanmar. By viewing genocide as a process rather than an isolated act of violence and recognizing cultural genocide as genocide, this study aims to …


Bridging The Atrocity Prevention Gap Between The International And The Local: Lessons Learned From Meso-Level Leadership In Ukraine And Syria, Kristina Hook, Jamie D. Wise Oct 2024

Bridging The Atrocity Prevention Gap Between The International And The Local: Lessons Learned From Meso-Level Leadership In Ukraine And Syria, Kristina Hook, Jamie D. Wise

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This paper explores meso-level approaches to atrocity prevention that incorporate a wider array of local expertise at all stages, from early warning to transitional justice. Specifically, we treat meso-level approaches as encompassing local leadership and advocacy across bottom-up processes, grassroots efforts, victim-led activism, and civil society mobilization. We draw from two contemporary cases of mass atrocities, Ukraine and Syria, which exemplify such efforts, using primary interview data with meso-level actors. First, we examine atrocity risk early warning in Ukraine, where prescient local expertise at the meso-level failed to influence international responses, asking what went wrong and what more could be …


Dangerous Speech As An Atrocity Early Warning Indicator: Measuring Changing Conflict Dynamics, Catherine Buerger, Susan Benesch Oct 2024

Dangerous Speech As An Atrocity Early Warning Indicator: Measuring Changing Conflict Dynamics, Catherine Buerger, Susan Benesch

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Dangerous speech, any expression that can increase the likelihood that someone will commit or condone violence against members of another group, can be a powerful early warning signal of impending mass violence. However, one cannot make a list of words that are dangerous, since the effect of the message depends not only on its content, but also on how it is communicated: by whom, to whom, and under what circumstances. What may be benign in one context may be extremely inflammatory in another. Thus, effective monitoring requires deep knowledge of the local setting and structural factors. The spread of dangerous …


Promoting Resilience To Genocide: An Evidence-Based Approach, Deborah Mayersen Oct 2024

Promoting Resilience To Genocide: An Evidence-Based Approach, Deborah Mayersen

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Preventing genocide is more achievable than ever before. In the past two decades, there has been an upsurge in research and resources dedicated to genocide and mass atrocity prevention. There is now substantial knowledge of risk factors for genocide, of current countries at risk of genocide and mass atrocities, and, most importantly, a small but passionate field of practitioners dedicated to prevention. Crucial to their effectiveness, however, is the adoption of evidence-based strategies. One important methodological approach to identifying proven strategies is through comparative analysis of historical case studies of resilience to genocide. From these case studies, in which a …


Revivifying The Responsibility To Protect: Strengthening The Normative Consensus For Atrocity Prevention, Matthew Levinger Oct 2024

Revivifying The Responsibility To Protect: Strengthening The Normative Consensus For Atrocity Prevention, Matthew Levinger

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This paper examines weaknesses in the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle, drawing on the scholarly literature on norm diffusion and norm cooptation. Despite having been unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2005, the R2P doctrine almost immediately attracted criticism that it reinforced a neocolonial stance by nations of the Global North toward those of the Global South. This critique grew in force during the chaotic aftermath of the 2011 intervention in Libya, which had been authorized as an R2P mission. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas conflict, and the intensifying competition between the United States and China …


Evidence-Based Approaches To Preventing Genocide And Mass Atrocities: Introduction To The Special Issue, Jamie D. Wise, Kristina Hook Oct 2024

Evidence-Based Approaches To Preventing Genocide And Mass Atrocities: Introduction To The Special Issue, Jamie D. Wise, Kristina Hook

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.


Contextualized Transitional Justice Policy Development In Uganda: Differentiating Between Normativity Types In Evidence-Based Problem Analysis, Saghar Shahidi Birjandian Oct 2024

Contextualized Transitional Justice Policy Development In Uganda: Differentiating Between Normativity Types In Evidence-Based Problem Analysis, Saghar Shahidi Birjandian

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This article discusses the fundamental impact of normativity on producing evidence-based guidance for context-sensitive transitional justice policy. It draws on lessons learned from Uganda’s complex transitional justice context and extensive fieldwork to demonstrate the necessity and the means to differentiate between belief-based normativity and evidence-based normativity in conducting problem analysis as a crucial site that determines the integrity of evidence-based guidance. It also establishes that evidence-based normativity guiding problem analysis must include empirical evidence of societal dynamics and views of affected communities or there is a significantly higher risk of belief-based normativity decontextualizing strategy development. Findings establish significant substantive differences …


Metals-Based Additive Manufacturing Methods And Systems With Thermal Monitoring And Control, Michael Cai Wang, Rasim Guldiken Oct 2024

Metals-Based Additive Manufacturing Methods And Systems With Thermal Monitoring And Control, Michael Cai Wang, Rasim Guldiken

USF Patents

A metals-based additive manufacturing machine and method are disclosed. The machine and method include a hybrid temperature monitoring system. The hybrid temperature monitoring system includes a Raman spectrometer, a single-element ultrasound transducer, and a phased-array ultrasound pair. The hybrid temperature monitoring system can generate a real-time three-dimensional temperature map of the melt pool and optionally a portion of the metal powder base and/or a formed portion of a desired artifact. The real-time three-dimensional temperature map can be used for optimizing the metals-based additive manufacturing process in real-time or during subsequent process runs.


Real-Time Monitoring Of Covid-19 Progress Using Magnetic Sensing And Machine Learning, Manh-Huong Phan, Kee Young Hwang, Valery Ortiz Jimenez, Baleeswaraiah Muchharla Oct 2024

Real-Time Monitoring Of Covid-19 Progress Using Magnetic Sensing And Machine Learning, Manh-Huong Phan, Kee Young Hwang, Valery Ortiz Jimenez, Baleeswaraiah Muchharla

USF Patents

A breathing monitor that includes a contactless sensor that uses magneto-LC resonance technology is provided. The breathing monitor collects breathing data from a patient that indicates a breathing pattern of the patient. A model trained using machine learning using breathing patterns collected from patients known to have different stages of COVID-19 is used to process the collected breathing data and to determine whether the patient has COVID-19. The model further determines the stage of COVID-19. The breathing monitor can identify likely COVID-19 infections faster than existing tests and requires no contact between the patient and a medical professional, which is …


Methods Of Using Protein Palmitoylations Inhibitors, Robert Deschenes, Arunava Roy, Ahmed Ramadan, Subhra Mohapatra, Marcello Giulianotti Oct 2024

Methods Of Using Protein Palmitoylations Inhibitors, Robert Deschenes, Arunava Roy, Ahmed Ramadan, Subhra Mohapatra, Marcello Giulianotti

USF Patents

The present disclosure relates to methods of using palmitoylation inhibitors for reducing or treating enveloped virus infections.


Regulating Deepfakes: An Indian Perspective, Shinu Vig Oct 2024

Regulating Deepfakes: An Indian Perspective, Shinu Vig

Journal of Strategic Security

Deepfakes are a growing concern throughout the world including India. Deepfakes can be used for several purposes, both innocuous or malicious. In India, several problems related to regulation of deepfakes have emerged. This paper makes an examination of current legal challenges posed by deepfakes as well as solutions in India that can be repurposed to address these challenges, including intellectual property laws, criminal laws, and the right to privacy. While these existing laws can be used to address certain aspects of the deep fake problem, there is an increasing recognition that specific legislations and regulations addressing deep fakes and synthetic …


Forum, Volume 48, No. 3, Fall 2024, Florida Humanities, Pam Daniel Oct 2024

Forum, Volume 48, No. 3, Fall 2024, Florida Humanities, Pam Daniel

FORUM: The Magazine of Florida Humanities

Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- From the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Treasure -- Oral History -- The School Masters -- Nowhereland -- They Tell our Story -- Places in Our Hearts -- Local Color -- Florida Seen -- Taste of Florida -- Environmental Humanities -- The Quiz


Crimen En La Frontera: Exploring Texas-Mexico Border Crimes Using A Geospatial Analysis, Carlos Alvarez, Jascha Wagner Oct 2024

Crimen En La Frontera: Exploring Texas-Mexico Border Crimes Using A Geospatial Analysis, Carlos Alvarez, Jascha Wagner

Journal of Strategic Security

Border crimes threaten public safety and security in the United States and the US-Mexico border region. Several evaluations support that data-driven, place-based crime prevention approaches can complement current public safety strategies and help reduce crime. Accordingly, place-based crime prevention may successfully prevent border crimes since these are inherently spatial. However, few studies have analyzed the geographies of Texas-Mexico border crimes, and assessments of data-driven, place-based crime prevention strategies of border crimes still lack a solid empirical foundation – especially in more rural border communities. To address this issue, this study builds police report data (Border Incident Assessment Report (BIAR)), used …


Full Issue, Maryland Birdlife Sep 2024

Full Issue, Maryland Birdlife

Maryland Birdlife

No abstract provided.


Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting Clostridioides Difficile Sporulation, Yu Chen, Michael Sacco, James Leahy, Elena Bray, Xingmin Sun, Xiujun Zhang Sep 2024

Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting Clostridioides Difficile Sporulation, Yu Chen, Michael Sacco, James Leahy, Elena Bray, Xingmin Sun, Xiujun Zhang

USF Patents

Disclosed herein are compounds that can prevent and treat C. difficile by inhibiting sporulation. Also disclosed herein are compositions and formulations comprising the compound disclosed herein. Methods of preventing and treating C. difficile comprising administering the compounds described herein are also disclosed.


Full Issue, Maryland Birdlife Sep 2024

Full Issue, Maryland Birdlife

Maryland Birdlife

No abstract provided.


Loggerhead Shrike Predation On Henslow's Sparrow, Craig R. Fosdick Sep 2024

Loggerhead Shrike Predation On Henslow's Sparrow, Craig R. Fosdick

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


Spring Diet Of The Barn Owl In North Mississippi, James L. Key Sep 2024

Spring Diet Of The Barn Owl In North Mississippi, James L. Key

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


The Mississippi Legacy Of Ben B Coffey, Jr, Jerome A. Jackson Sep 2024

The Mississippi Legacy Of Ben B Coffey, Jr, Jerome A. Jackson

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


Avian Mortality During Spring Migration At A North Mississippi Television Tower, W. Marvin Davis Sep 2024

Avian Mortality During Spring Migration At A North Mississippi Television Tower, W. Marvin Davis

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


10-Volume Index To The Mississippi Kite:1965-1980, Judith A. Toups Sep 2024

10-Volume Index To The Mississippi Kite:1965-1980, Judith A. Toups

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


A Case Of Misidentification And Comments On The Value Of Photographic Records, Jerome A. Jackson Sep 2024

A Case Of Misidentification And Comments On The Value Of Photographic Records, Jerome A. Jackson

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Mississippi Kite Sep 2024

Front Matter, Mississippi Kite

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


What Constitutes A Valid Rare Bird Record?, Jerome A. Jackson Sep 2024

What Constitutes A Valid Rare Bird Record?, Jerome A. Jackson

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


Reviews, Ren Lohoefener, Wayne C. Weber, C. Dwight Cooley, J. A. Jackson Sep 2024

Reviews, Ren Lohoefener, Wayne C. Weber, C. Dwight Cooley, J. A. Jackson

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Mississippi Kite Sep 2024

Front Matter, Mississippi Kite

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


Constitution Of The Mississippi Ornithological Society, Mississippi Kite Sep 2024

Constitution Of The Mississippi Ornithological Society, Mississippi Kite

Mississippi Kite

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, Bulletin Of The Texas Ornithological Society Sep 2024

Full Issue, Bulletin Of The Texas Ornithological Society

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, Bulletin Of The Texas Ornithological Society Sep 2024

Full Issue, Bulletin Of The Texas Ornithological Society

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, Bulletin Of The Texas Ornithological Society Sep 2024

Full Issue, Bulletin Of The Texas Ornithological Society

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.