Obligation to prevent (O2P): proposal for enhanced community approach to genocide prevention in Africa

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Title:	Obligation to prevent (O2P): proposal for enhanced community approach to genocide prevention in Africa
Author:	Kissi, Edward
Year:	2016
Periodical:	African Security Review (ISSN 2154-0128)
Volume:	25
Issue:	3
Pages:	242-257
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	genocide human rights crime prevention
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2016.1192555
Abstract:	As empathetic as distant nations may feel about an ongoing or looming catastrophe in a particular region of Africa, they are too far removed from the horror to grasp its gravity and impact. Geographical proximity to the atrocity, and the likelihood of its spreading to their neighbourhoods, make the communities and neighbouring countries in the imploding region the best and most effective first responders to a crisis in their own backyard. A response from 'communal' or 'regional' groups is, therefore, the most practical measure for preventing human rights violations in Africa from descending into an actual genocide or an intractable genocidal condition. A community approach to preventing genocide and other human rights abuses should serve as the foundation for a new concept of 'moral pan-Africanism' on the African continent in the 21st century. This article makes an argument for this genocide prevention model and new moral concept. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]