Roberta Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brookings Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reflections from Former Mandate Holders
As the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) soared in the 1990s to some 25 million – almost twice the number of refugees – international concerns began to mount about the responsibilities of governments and the United Nations (UN) towards these people. The 1951 Refugee Convention1 did not apply to IDPs because they did not cross an internationally recognized State border. Nor was there a clear statement of their rights in international l…
An r2p Framework for North Korea
North Korea has long been considered a country where r2p ’s application would not be a practical option. Its major abuses are largely hidden from view and its reclusive nature has made it appear impervious to outside influence. But with the publication of the un Commission of Inquiry report and the response of the dprk , opportunities have arisen. Building on these, this article proposes an r2p framework for North Korea with the strong involvemen…
The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced
The coerced displacement of people within the borders of their own countries by armed conflicts, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights has become a pervasive feature of the post Cold War era. The plight of the displaced poses a challenge that is not only humanitarian but a threat to the security and stability of countries, regions, and, through a chain effect, the international system. This book contains case studies of ten c…
Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced
Turmoil in Tajikistan: Addressing the Crisis of Internal Displacement
Reconciling R2P with IDP Protection
Although R2P developed in large measure from efforts to design an international system to protect internally displaced persons (IDPs), its application may not always work to the benefit of displaced persons. Challenges have arisen, most notably R2P's limited application, the narrowness of its scope, the exclusion of disaster IDPs, the sidelining of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the tensions between human rights and humanitarian…
The Burma Cyclone and the Responsibility to Protect
International consensus has developed that R2P should not have been applied to Burma when it denied access to the victims of Cyclone Nargis. The author argues that Burma could well have been an R2P case under whose umbrella political and humanitarian action could have been mobilized. Needed are effective criteria for deciding in which situations the Security Council should act and performance standards for measuring government responses to natura…
Up Close and From the Tower: Two Views of Refugee and Internally Displaced Populations
Journal Article Up Close and From the Tower: Two Views of Refugee and Internally Displaced Populations Get access On the Margins of the World: The Refugee Experience Today. By Agier Michael. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2008. 118 pp., $49.95 hardcover (ISBN-13: 978-07456-4051-8).The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns. By Haddad Emma. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 235 pp., $90.00 hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-521-86888-4…
Developing an International System for Internally Displaced Persons: Developing an International System for Internally Displaced Persons
A pressing new problem came onto the international agenda at the end of the cold war, persons forced from their homes by conflict and human rights violations who remain uprooted and at risk within the borders of their own countries. The international system created after the Second World War to protect and assist refugees, people who flee across borders, did not extend to internally displaced persons (IDPs). Over the past fifteen years, substanti…
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: An Innovation in International Standard Setting
In the last decade of the twentieth century, an explosion of civil wars brought a pressing new problem onto the international agenda?the plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs), people forced from their homes by conflict, communal violence, or egregious human rights violations who remain uprooted and at risk within the borders of their own countries. The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees did not apply to them, and the UN Hi…
Healing Communities in Conflict: International Assistance in Complex Emergencies
Refugees and Intemally Displaced: Some Lessons fromi the Kosovo Crisis
This paper argues that NATO failed to protect the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo and offers four lessons: military and humanitarian action should be better coordinated; internally displaced persons should be protected as well as refugees; humanitarian corridors and safe havens should not be dismissed out of hand; and civilian lives must be valued as much as those in uniforms
Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement
Masses in flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement
Exodus within Borders: The Uprooted Who Never Left Home
Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer e…
Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia
Israel's Problematic Absorption of Soviet Jews
Israeli officials predict that one million Soviet Jews will emigrate to Israel over the next five years. From January to December 1990, about 200,000 arrived in Israel and 400,000 are expected this year alone. Successive Israeli governments have been sluggish in preparing for these arrivals, despite their importance to the future of the State; by the end of 1990, not one new apartment had been built. The government's failure to build new housing …
Israel's problematic absorption of soviet jews
People's Republic of China: The Human Rights Exception
Human Rights Diplomacy: The Carter Administration and the Southern Cone
Fatal Errors with Fatalities Data: "A Comment on Robertson's "An Instance of Effective Legal Regulation
We noted with considerable interest Leon Robertson's article (1976), in a recent issue of this journal, dealing with statistical measures of the effectiveness of helmet and daytime headlight laws for motorcyclists. For some time, proponents and opponents of such legislation have been trading enthusiastic arguments and impassioned denials, often including misleading statistical presentations. The result has been that most followers of this debate …
Sex, Socialization and Politics
Three perspectives are usually used to explain differences in political beliefs and behavior of men and women: political socialization, structural, and situational. This paper examines evidence bearing on one of these theories, political socialization, and finds relatively minor support for it. A variety of alternative explanations flow from these results, the most radical of which would call for abandoning the political socialization perspective…
The Development of Political Orientations among Black and White Children
Recent research suggests that, with socioeconomic differences held constant, black adults are more disaffected and active politically than their white counterparts; yet, this same research neglects to specify the timing and location of these differences. The present study undertakes this task, attempting to discover whether the differences in political orientation between blacks and whites is found among children as well. The results convincingly…
Parent-Child Consensus on Socioeconomic Data Obtained From Sample Surveys
Journal Article PARENT-CHILD CONSENSUS ON SOCIOECONOMIC DATA OBTAINED FROM SAMPLE SURVEYS Get access ROBERTA S. COHEN, ROBERTA S. COHEN research assistant and doctoral candidate in sociology †University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANTHONY M. ORUM ANTHONY M. ORUM Assistant Professor of Sociology †University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on:…
Sex, Socialization and Politics
Three perspectives are usually used to explain differences in political beliefs and behavior of men and women: political socialization, structural, and situational. This paper examines evidence bearing on one of these theories, political socialization, and finds relatively minor support for it. A variety of alternative explanations flow from these results, the most radical of which would call for abandoning the political socialization perspective…
The Development of Political Orientations among Black and White Children
Recent research suggests that, with socioeconomic differences held constant, black adults are more disaffected and active politically than their white counterparts; yet, this same research neglects to specify the timing and location of these differences. The present study undertakes this task, attempting to discover whether the differences in political orientation between blacks and whites is found among children as well. The results convincingly…
Developing an International System for Internally Displaced Persons: Developing an International System for Internally Displaced Persons
A pressing new problem came onto the international agenda at the end of the cold war, persons forced from their homes by conflict and human rights violations who remain uprooted and at risk within the borders of their own countries. The international system created after the Second World War to protect and assist refugees, people who flee across borders, did not extend to internally displaced persons (IDPs). Over the past fifteen years, substanti…
Parent-Child Consensus on Socioeconomic Data Obtained From Sample Surveys
Journal Article PARENT-CHILD CONSENSUS ON SOCIOECONOMIC DATA OBTAINED FROM SAMPLE SURVEYS Get access ROBERTA S. COHEN, ROBERTA S. COHEN research assistant and doctoral candidate in sociology †University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANTHONY M. ORUM ANTHONY M. ORUM Assistant Professor of Sociology †University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on:…
Human Rights Diplomacy: The Carter Administration and the Southern Cone
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: An Innovation in International Standard Setting
In the last decade of the twentieth century, an explosion of civil wars brought a pressing new problem onto the international agenda?the plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs), people forced from their homes by conflict, communal violence, or egregious human rights violations who remain uprooted and at risk within the borders of their own countries. The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees did not apply to them, and the UN Hi…
The Burma Cyclone and the Responsibility to Protect
International consensus has developed that R2P should not have been applied to Burma when it denied access to the victims of Cyclone Nargis. The author argues that Burma could well have been an R2P case under whose umbrella political and humanitarian action could have been mobilized. Needed are effective criteria for deciding in which situations the Security Council should act and performance standards for measuring government responses to natura…
Exodus within Borders: The Uprooted Who Never Left Home
Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia
People's Republic of China: The Human Rights Exception
An r2p Framework for North Korea
North Korea has long been considered a country where r2p ’s application would not be a practical option. Its major abuses are largely hidden from view and its reclusive nature has made it appear impervious to outside influence. But with the publication of the un Commission of Inquiry report and the response of the dprk , opportunities have arisen. Building on these, this article proposes an r2p framework for North Korea with the strong involvemen…
Reconciling R2P with IDP Protection
Although R2P developed in large measure from efforts to design an international system to protect internally displaced persons (IDPs), its application may not always work to the benefit of displaced persons. Challenges have arisen, most notably R2P's limited application, the narrowness of its scope, the exclusion of disaster IDPs, the sidelining of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the tensions between human rights and humanitarian…
Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement
Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer e…
Visual Aids in Group Psychotherapy: Puppetry
Procedure under U.N. covenants
Principles, priorities, prejudices
The impact of east‐west tension on the UN study of racial discrimination
United Nations’ concern with: Action against racial intolerance
Parent-Child Consensus on Socioeconomic Data Obtained From Sample Surveys
Journal Article PARENT-CHILD CONSENSUS ON SOCIOECONOMIC DATA OBTAINED FROM SAMPLE SURVEYS Get access ROBERTA S. COHEN, ROBERTA S. COHEN research assistant and doctoral candidate in sociology †University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ANTHONY M. ORUM ANTHONY M. ORUM Assistant Professor of Sociology †University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on:…
The Development of Political Orientations among Black and White Children
Recent research suggests that, with socioeconomic differences held constant, black adults are more disaffected and active politically than their white counterparts; yet, this same research neglects to specify the timing and location of these differences. The present study undertakes this task, attempting to discover whether the differences in political orientation between blacks and whites is found among children as well. The results convincingly…
Sex, Socialization and Politics
Three perspectives are usually used to explain differences in political beliefs and behavior of men and women: political socialization, structural, and situational. This paper examines evidence bearing on one of these theories, political socialization, and finds relatively minor support for it. A variety of alternative explanations flow from these results, the most radical of which would call for abandoning the political socialization perspective…
Fatal Errors with Fatalities Data: "A Comment on Robertson's "An Instance of Effective Legal Regulation
We noted with considerable interest Leon Robertson's article (1976), in a recent issue of this journal, dealing with statistical measures of the effectiveness of helmet and daytime headlight laws for motorcyclists. For some time, proponents and opponents of such legislation have been trading enthusiastic arguments and impassioned denials, often including misleading statistical presentations. The result has been that most followers of this debate …
Human Rights Diplomacy: The Carter Administration and the Southern Cone
People's Republic of China: The Human Rights Exception
Israel's Problematic Absorption of Soviet Jews
Israeli officials predict that one million Soviet Jews will emigrate to Israel over the next five years. From January to December 1990, about 200,000 arrived in Israel and 400,000 are expected this year alone. Successive Israeli governments have been sluggish in preparing for these arrivals, despite their importance to the future of the State; by the end of 1990, not one new apartment had been built. The government's failure to build new housing …
Israel's problematic absorption of soviet jews
Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia
Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer e…
Masses in flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement
Exodus within Borders: The Uprooted Who Never Left Home
Refugees and Intemally Displaced: Some Lessons fromi the Kosovo Crisis
This paper argues that NATO failed to protect the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo and offers four lessons: military and humanitarian action should be better coordinated; internally displaced persons should be protected as well as refugees; humanitarian corridors and safe havens should not be dismissed out of hand; and civilian lives must be valued as much as those in uniforms
Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement
Healing Communities in Conflict: International Assistance in Complex Emergencies
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: An Innovation in International Standard Setting
In the last decade of the twentieth century, an explosion of civil wars brought a pressing new problem onto the international agenda?the plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs), people forced from their homes by conflict, communal violence, or egregious human rights violations who remain uprooted and at risk within the borders of their own countries. The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees did not apply to them, and the UN Hi…
Developing an International System for Internally Displaced Persons: Developing an International System for Internally Displaced Persons
A pressing new problem came onto the international agenda at the end of the cold war, persons forced from their homes by conflict and human rights violations who remain uprooted and at risk within the borders of their own countries. The international system created after the Second World War to protect and assist refugees, people who flee across borders, did not extend to internally displaced persons (IDPs). Over the past fifteen years, substanti…
The Burma Cyclone and the Responsibility to Protect
International consensus has developed that R2P should not have been applied to Burma when it denied access to the victims of Cyclone Nargis. The author argues that Burma could well have been an R2P case under whose umbrella political and humanitarian action could have been mobilized. Needed are effective criteria for deciding in which situations the Security Council should act and performance standards for measuring government responses to natura…
Up Close and From the Tower: Two Views of Refugee and Internally Displaced Populations
Journal Article Up Close and From the Tower: Two Views of Refugee and Internally Displaced Populations Get access On the Margins of the World: The Refugee Experience Today. By Agier Michael. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2008. 118 pp., $49.95 hardcover (ISBN-13: 978-07456-4051-8).The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns. By Haddad Emma. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 235 pp., $90.00 hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-521-86888-4…
The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced
The coerced displacement of people within the borders of their own countries by armed conflicts, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights has become a pervasive feature of the post Cold War era. The plight of the displaced poses a challenge that is not only humanitarian but a threat to the security and stability of countries, regions, and, through a chain effect, the international system. This book contains case studies of ten c…
Political science (25 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Human rights (7 works) · Law and economics (6 works) · Refugee (6 works)