Introduction. -- An ongoing legacy of atrocity: torture and the Indonesian state. -- International civil society as agent of protection: responses to the famine in East Timor. -- Maximizing transitional justice opportunities: the case for East Timor's CAVR. -- Transnational justice time: Uncle San, Aunty Yan, and outreach at the Khmer Rouge tribunal. -- Humanitarian inervention and the legacies of security council (in)action: East Pakistan (1971) and East Timor (1975-79). -- Political realism, sovereignty and intervention: is genocide prevention really possible in a world of nation states? -- Political instability and genocide: comparing causes in Asia and the Pacific and globally. -- Discourses on violence: constraints and challenges for mediatirs in Asia. -- 'Never again' or again and again: the genocide convention, the responsibility to protect and mass atrocity prevention. -- Conclusion.

1. Asia -- Social policy
2. Gonocide -- Asia -- Prevention -- Government policy
3. Asia -- Social conditions
4. Psychic trauma -- Social aspects -- Asia
5. Political violence -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
6. Mass murder -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
7. Alrocities -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
8. Genocide -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
9. Asia -- History
10. Military -- 20th century
11. Asia -- Politics and government -- 1945-