From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)

"As of 2019, there were over 70 million people displaced from their homes, the most displaced persons since the Second World War. This number continues to rise as solutions to stem large-scale violence and subsequent displacement continue to fail. Today, twenty-four people are displaced from their homes and communities every minute. The likelihood of the displaced returning to their homes is become increasingly unlikely as their homes may have been destroyed as a result of conflict and war. What are the impacts of loss of home upon children, adults, families, communities, and societies? If having a home is a basic human right, then why is the destruction of one's home not viewed as a violation of human rights and prosecuted accordingly? This book answers these questions and more by focusing on domicide, or the intentional destruction of the home, as a human rights issue"-- Provided by publisher Part 1. Introduction. Castles and Cages: A Theory of Home and Home Loss -- The Place Where I Belong: The Human Right to Home -- A Causal Pathway and Typology of Extreme Domicide -- Part 2. From Bureaucracy to Bullets. "And Leave Them Burning Our Homes": The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya (1952-1960) -- Paradise Lost: The Division of Cyprus (1974) -- A Rose for a Tear: The Cherokee Trail of Tears (1838-1839) -- Reducing Homes to Keys: The Occupation of Palestine and the Matrix of Control (1945- present) -- Violence from the Center: Chechnya's Generations of Domicide (1944-present) -- Manufacturing Homogeneity: Domicide in Bosnia (1992-1995) -- Wiping Neighborhoods Off the Map: The Syrian War (2011-present) -- "All the Villages We Saw on the Way to the Sea Were Burning": The Rohingya in Myanmar (2012-present) -- Part 3. Conclusions. The Place Where We Lived: Justice, Reconciliation, and Impunity Gaps -- Home Matters: Lessons Learned While Studying Extreme Domicide There are currently a record-setting number of forcibly displaced persons in the world. This number continues to rise as solutions to alleviate humanitarian catastrophes of large-scale violence and displacement continue to fail. The likelihood of the displaced returning to their homes is becoming increasingly unlikely. In many cases, their homes have been destroyed as the result of violence. Why are the homes of certain populations targeted for destruction? What are the impacts of loss of home upon children, adults, families, communities, and societies? If having a home is a fundamental human right, then why is the destruction of home not viewed as a rights violation and punished accordingly? From Bureaucracy to Bullets answers these questions and more by focusing on the violent practice of extreme domicide, or the intentional destruction of the home, as a central and overlooked human rights issue.