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This article demonstrates how early human rights violations indicate escalating atrocities, suggesting preventive measures.
This article proposes a human rights sequence theory of atrocity and a human rights-based approach to atrocity prevention. It argues that human rights violations escalate in predictable patterns, sometimes culminating in atrocities and genocide. Drawing on new cross-national, time-series data measuring government respect for 24 human rights and a new operational definition of atrocity, the article employs Mokken Scale Analysis to show that violations such as extensive torture, political imprisonment, and labor rights abuses typically precede the onset of widespread extrajudicial killings and genocide. These findings suggest an early warning system using information about human rights violations to inform upstream prevention strategies.
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