Abstract
The MARO Handbook provides realistic scenarios and well-developed possible courses of action, which would enable strategists, policy makers and planners to prepare for an intervention operation to stop genocide and other mass atrocities. The handbook stipulates three defining characteristics of genocide and mass atrocities and eight operational and political implications. It offers well-founded advice and discusses the impossibility for an intervening force to remain impartial when mass atrocities are being committed. Also, unlike most peace and stability operations, MAROs must protect civilian victims from the perpetrators of mass atrocities and have to deter or defeat the perpetrators, in a similar way to other forces (usually guerrilla movements).
Recommended Citation
Burgess, Stephen F.
(2011)
"Comments on the Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO) Handbook,"
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal:
Vol. 6:
Iss.
1:
Article 9.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol6/iss1/9
