United Nations and Genocide

Deborah Mayersen is Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong, Australia. Deborah's recent publications include On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined (2014) and (co-edited with Annie Pohlman) Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention (2013).

• Introduction; Deborah Mayersen1. On Genocide and Colonial Violence; Philip Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan2. Betrayal and Hypocrisy: The United Nations, Cambodia, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal; Rebecca Gidley3. Lessons from Srebrenica: The United Nations after Bosnia; Hariz Halilovich 4. Naming and Framing: Darfur, the Genocide Debate, and the Responsibility to Protect; Jess Gifkins5. Indonesia and the UN Genocide Convention: The Empty Promises of Human Rights Ritualism; Annie Pohlman 6. When the UN Refuses to Prevent Genocide: Legal, Political, and Religious Factors; Hannibal Travis7. The Responsibility to Protect and the Responsibility to Assist: Developing Human Rights Protection through Police Building; Charles Hawksley and Nichole Georgeou8. United Nations Outreach Programmes and Genocide Prevention; Deborah Mayersen9. Moving Beyond 'Technical Fixes': Genocide Prevention and the United Nations; Stephen McLoughlinConclusion; Deborah Mayersen