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US on path to widespread political violence
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- Authors
- Jeffrey Smith, Richard Ashby Wilson, Jordan Street, Christopher Rogers, Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman, Ambassador Deborah A. McCarthy, Thomas Countryman, Bishop Garrison, Benjamin Haas, Marta Achler, Martin Scheinin, Ryan Goodman, Steve Vladeck, Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Martin S. Flaherty, Just Security, E. Tendayi Achiume, Ellen P. Goodman, Ambassador (ret.) Karen Kornbluh, Rebecca Hamilton, John Dehn, Eugene R. Fidell, Shirin Sinnar, Mark Nevitt, Rob Berschinski, Reece Pelley, Danielle Schulkin, Mia Bloom, Harold Hongju Koh, Marty Lederman, Donald K. Sherman, Matt Olsen, Katrina Mulligan, Jens David Ohlin, Barbara McQuade, Daryl G. Kimball, Brittany Benowitz, Alicia Ceccanese, Sarah Knuckey, Jayne Huckerby, Chris Jenks, Niamh Keady-Tabbal, Itamar Mann, Lisa Reinsberg, David Kaye, Jeremy Konyndyk, Kevin O'Connell, Dylan George, Dapo Akande, Duncan B. Hollis, James O'Brien, Roger Phillips, Haley S. Anderson, Oona Hathaway, Jeanne-Paloma Zelmati, Mark Montgomery, Robert Morgus, Przemysław Roguski, Annie Shiel, Archibald Henry, Daniel R. Mahanty, Rita Siemion, Michael Schmitt, Durward Johnson, Robert Malley, Stephen Pomper, Erin Carroll, Adam Cox, Cristina Rodríguez, Ambassador Peter Mulrean (ret.), Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga, Ambassador H.E. Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Jessica Davis, Elizabeth Goitein, Andrew G. McCabe, Mary B. McCord, Julian Sanchez, Jeffrey Vagle, Wayne Jordash QC, Uzay Yasar Aysev, Anna Mykytenko, Kate Brannen, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Peter Poullos, MD, Luke Hartig, Joanna Naples-Mitchell, Alex Joel, Russell Buchan, Daniel Franchini, Brig. Gen. R. Patrick Huston, Lt. Col. M. Eric Bahm, Lucas Guttentag, Chimène Keitner, Todd Buchwald, David Michael Crane, Benjamin Ferencz, Stephen J. Rapp, David Scheffer, Clint Williamson, Dan E. Stigall, Jacob S. Hacker, Barry Friedman, John Bowers, Jonathan Zittrain, Rosa Hayes, Dana Khabbaz, Michael Loughlin, Nicole Ng, Ayoub Ouederni, Brandon Willmore, Nicholas Rasmussen, Stuart M. Gerson, Tess Bridgeman, Rachel Goldbrenner, Christopher Estep, Ambassador Donald Steinberg, Lisa Monaco, Colonel (Retired) Gary Corn, Douglas London, Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault, Joseph Stabile, Christof Heyns, Hilary Mossberg, John Prendergast, Mehrnusch Anssari, Benjamin Nußberger, Marc Polymeropoulos, Anicée Van Engeland, Andrew Weissmann, Adil Ahmad Haque, Senator Maggie Hassan, Geoffrey S. Corn, Rachel VanLandingham, Lt Col, USAF (Ret.), Agnes Callamard, Anthony Dworkin, Crispin Smith, Brian Egan, Sophie Richardson, Edwin Djabatey, Aurel Sari, Jason M. Blazakis, Noam Lubell, Jelena Pejic, Claire Simmons, Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., George T. Conway III, Jennifer Daskal, Kristen Eichensehr, Joshua Geltzer, Elie Honig, Harry Litman, Renato Mariotti, Asha Rangappa, Mimi Rocah, Paul Seamus Ryan, Joyce Vance, Andy Wright, Michael W. Meier, Rahma A. Hussein, Abdifatah Hassan Ali, Alex Moorehead, Yuval Shany, Gordon Brown, Shaheed Fatima Q.C., Lt. Col. Daniel Maurer, Beth Van Schaack
- Published
- Jun 10 2020
- Word count
- 2293 words
Countries facing economic crisis and inter-group conflict – as the United States currently is due to the economic fallout of the ongoing pandemic and racial justice protests – can quickly descend into mass violence. This is especially true when political leaders flout the outcome of elections or repeatedly inflame social tensions during a period of acute inter-group tension, as is the case with Trump’s repeated inflammatory acts and statements. For example, as the governments in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda lost control of their territory, the heads of state of both Serbia (Slobodan Milošević) and Rwanda (Jean Kambanda) publicly called for state security forces and, pertinently, armed civilian militias to attack targeted groups en masse. Both of these conflicts rapidly escalated into catastrophic atrocities, inflicting deep wounds that are still mending today.
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There is a voluminous literature on the main risk factors indicating an increased likelihood of state-sponsored mass atrocities against civilians (see e.g. here and here). We are worried that key indicators are now evident, and in fact increasing, in the United States. Prime examples include: