Genocide

The United Nations doctrine on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is state-centric, there's no doubt about that, but does that mean states are the only viable actors when it comes to protecting civilians from mass atrocities? In this essay, Corrie Hulse argues that when states fail to act on R2P, it is the responsibility of civilians and N.G.O.s to step up and push governments into action.

In spring 2005, the World Policy Journal was the first magazine to publish the photographs of former Marine Captain Brian Steidle. His undaunted efforts to bring global attention to the unfolding genocide in Darfur, Sudan, were then captured in The Devil Came on Horseback. Corrie Hulse reviews the moving documentary that pleads for the international community to take action in order to save the lives of those facing mass atrocities in war-torn Sudan. 

What role does literature play in the healing process? A necessary one argues reviewer Grace Kim. In 1998 Boubacar Boris Diop was one of ten African writers to participate in the Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire project (Rwanda: To Write Against Oblivion). The result, Murambi, The Book of Bones, is a haunting literary tribute that seeks to honor the 800,000 genocide victims and to ensure that we must never forget the inhumanity that beset the African country for 100 bloody days.