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Often, the victims of such abuses are treated as criminals – dishonored, brutalized, ostracized, imprisoned, and even executed – while perpetrators remain free.
This outcry should mark the start of a global movement to lift the veil of silence that shrouds violence against women – which often begins at home – and protects the perpetrators.
According to Reporters Without Borders, more than 1,000 journalists have been murdered around the world in the last 15 years, and only a handful of the perpetrators have been brought to justice.
But so-called “lone wolf” mass shooters – individual perpetrators with no ties to any movement or ideology – are not a new phenomenon, and these episodes have offered important clues about the motivations and thought processes of mass shooters.
Duwe found that 60% of the perpetrators had either been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder or exhibited signs of serious mental disturbance before the attack.
In the case of school shootings, such as the Columbine High School massacre of 1999, that logic is clear: to punish those who have excluded the perpetrators socially.
Does this reveal, Duwe asks, just how mentally plagued these perpetrators are?
The perpetrators are never caught.
Both are treated in hospital, the perpetrators escape unrecognized.
Russian authorities tend to play down these attacks as the acts of rowdies – even when the perpetrators are caught and can be prosecuted.
Those who murder or abduct schoolchildren are committing a heinous crime, and perpetrators should know that international authorities will punish them.
When it comes to real global integration, it is easy to identify perpetrators and victims; with financial integration, it is not.
Actions against perpetrators – for example, firms and countries that brazenly steal intellectual property – may also be needed, despite the potential costs.
The Kremlin is sure to use its veto power to block attempts to bring perpetrators to justice.
Knowing who committed particular crimes could fuel demands to create a tribunal to bring perpetrators to justice.
The three primary points of controversy are: the identity of the victims, the perpetrators, and the relevance of a just cause.
There is a similar question about the perpetrators.
Sometimes the victims are military and the perpetrators are states, sometimes the cause appears to be just, and sometimes one person with enough weapons but no organization might wreak terror.
If impunity for perpetrators of crimes against humanity, however morally repugnant, could protect potential future victims by ending the conflict, accepting such an outcome may well be worth sacrificing a full measure of justice for past victims.
According to Demos, a UK-based think tank, female journalists are three times more likely than their male counterparts to be targeted by abusive comments on Twitter, with perpetrators frequently using sexualized language (such as “slut” and “whore”) against their targets.
Restricting criminal liability to actual perpetrators, carefully excluding clansmen and kin, is a fragile historical innovation aimed at interrupting spirals of bloody inter-communal violence.
Prosecuting perpetrators is often held up as one solution, but in most cases, criminal charges are not a timely deterrent.
Interventions should therefore target groups, not entire battlefields, and they should target perpetrators’ superiors.
When perpetrators of sexual violence are called to account in high-profile settings, such as the UN, it becomes difficult for individual states to ignore activists’ demands.
Some of the project’s adversaries claim that it must be stopped because it will be a tribute to the perpetrators of a despicable deed.
At a minimum, attacks on journalists like Khashoggi must be fully investigated, and their perpetrators must be held to account and condemned by the international community.
The GMO StigmaSTANFORD – In August, at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, a group of activists vandalized test fields of so-called “golden rice,” which has been genetically engineered to contain beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A. Some of the perpetrators were even supported by the Swedish government’s International Development Cooperation Agency via its funding of the radical Filipino group MASIPAG.
As the Security Council discusses these options, the objective must be clear: Perpetrators of attacks on schools and abductions of children should find themselves up against the international community’s immovable resistance.
One of the worrying features of the 9/11 attacks is that it is hard to see their purpose beyond the perpetrators’ resentment of the West and its ways.
Are some Europeans, many Israelis ask, attempting to use Israel as a means to rid themselves of guilt over the Jewish question, and with it the Jews’ unbearable claim to moral superiority, by lightheartedly equating them with the perpetrators of the Shoah?
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