Mass Atrocities, Risk and Resilience

Stephen McLoughlin is a Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, at Griffith University. His research interests include mass atrocities early warning, structural prevention of mass atrocities, ethnic conflict in post-communist states, and the responsibility to protect. His current research is focused on understanding local and national sources of resilience, and how these play a protective role in states at risk of future atrocities. He is the author of the recent book The Structural Prevention of Mass Atrocities: Understanding Risk and Resilience.

• List of TablesAcknowledgements1. Introduction – Exploring Risk and Resilience: Implications for comparative genocide studies, and mass atrocity preventionStephen McLoughlinPART I: CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO PREVENTION2. The Next ‘Spring’ is Certain to Come – and Certain to be Missed: Deficits in conflict prevention and researchWitold Mucha3. ‘Who is the subject of atrocities prevention?’Bridget Conley-Zilkic4. Rethinking the Structural Prevention of Mass AtrocitiesStephen McLoughlinPART II: INVESTIGATING THE NON-OCCURRENCE OF GENOCIDE AND OTHER MASS ATROCITIES5. International Affinity and the Prevention of Genocide: Implications for R2PManus I. Midlarsky6. Rethinking Approaches to Prevention under the Responsibility to Protect: Agency and Empowerment within Vulnerable PopulationsDeborah Mayersen7. Indigenous State-building: 'Local' actors in Somaliland's stabilizationMichael Walls8. Iran 1998-2008: Insight on the containment of riskSara E. Davies9.Azerbaijan 1998-2008: Ceasefire, stalemate and simmering tensionsStephen McLoughlinBibliographyAbout the AuthorsIndex