{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T09:17:35Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a094e7-12a5-7a42-9dc7-d0562199a67e\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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it does not presume that the term itself establishes a legal offence.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions of domicide, their proponents, and the thresholds each requires", "Deliberate acts and policies alleged to destroy dwellings or the conditions that make them home", "Relationships between affected inhabitants, their homes, and wider places of belonging", "Evidence of intention, implementation, destruction, and resulting suffering", "Continuing exclusion, prevention of return, and inhabitants' priorities for remedy" ], "out_of_scope": [ "General building demolition methods and structural engineering", "Displacement or migration without a demonstrated connection to destruction of home", "Accidental damage and natural hazards considered independently of deliberate human action", "Complete models of genocide, urbicide, persecution, or armed conflict", "General housing allocation, property valuation, and land administration" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish that the affected place functioned as someone's home; destruction of an unused structure alone does not establish domicide.", "Assess evidence of deliberate human action separately from the severity of destruction; extensive disaster damage alone does not demonstrate intention.", "Record destruction of home separately from movement of people: displacement can occur without demolition, and destruction can affect residents already absent.", "Specify whether the selected definition accepts individual or development-related cases or requires a collective, systematic, or conflict-related pattern.", "Assess loss of habitation, belonging, and continuity alongside property damage; a replacement building or payment does not by itself establish restoration of home." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Definition applied", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attributed definition, source, inclusion criteria, exclusions, and version", "why_it_matters": "Different definitions can classify the same episode differently." }, { "name": "Home relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Inhabitant or community linked to dwelling, settlement, or homeland, with dates and supporting accounts", "why_it_matters": "Identifies whose home was affected without equating home with registered ownership." }, { "name": "Destructive mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Demolition, burning, bombardment, inundation, or another specified mechanism; nonphysical mechanisms require explicit definitional justification", "why_it_matters": "Makes the alleged destruction concrete and allows disputed mechanisms to remain visible." }, { "name": "Evidence of deliberateness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, alleged, supported, disputed, or insufficient; accompanied by evidence and reasoning", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an observed outcome from being treated automatically as proof of intention." }, { "name": "Extent of home loss", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Dwellings, households, and people affected; proportion of baseline homes; observation date and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates physical units from affected inhabitants and makes scale claims comparable." }, { "name": "Responsible actor relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Alleged planner, authoriser, implementer, or beneficiary linked to particular acts and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes participation and benefit from established responsibility." }, { "name": "Home-loss trajectory", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Threatened, underway, destruction ceased, exclusion continuing, restoration underway, or restoration assessed by inhabitants", "why_it_matters": "Tracks continuing loss after the destructive act has stopped." }, { "name": "Return impediments", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Physical destruction, insecurity, access prohibition, tenure loss, service loss, or other documented impediment", "why_it_matters": "Identifies why rebuilding alone may fail to restore the possibility of living at home." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare an alleged episode against explicitly attributed definitions of domicide.", "Assemble a timeline linking decisions, destructive acts, inhabitants' accounts, and continuing exclusion.", "Estimate affected homes and households while preserving uncertainty and preventing duplicate counts.", "Identify evidence that supports or challenges deliberate destruction of home.", "Compare prevention, return, rebuilding, and alternative settlement options against inhabitants' stated priorities.", "Prepare an evidence-based referral for specialist investigation without presenting conceptual classification as a legal judgment." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain the concept of domicide and its scholarly use from cited sources.", "Report documented cases with sources and attributed positions." ], "must_not": [ "Help plan or carry out the destruction of homes or forced displacement.", "Deny or minimize documented destruction of homes.", "Label an event as domicide as if it were a legal finding when no court has ruled." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing accusations against named parties or states." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Losing a home destroys belonging, memory and community, not just shelter.", "Displacement falls hardest on the poor, minorities and people in conflict zones." ], "affected_parties": [ "Displaced people", "Communities", "Future generations" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the concept; responsibility for acts lies with those who carry them out.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "Seen in destroyed or bulldozed dwellings and in displaced communities, though the term is an interpretation." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Loss of homes causes homelessness, trauma and loss of community.", "Contested use of the term can politicize reporting." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, 1949, Article 53, which prohibits destruction of property by an occupying power except where absolutely necessary for military operations.", "Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which lists extensive destruction of property not justified by military necessity as a war crime." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "The concept is used in research on conflict, displacement, forced eviction and redevelopment to examine deliberate destruction of people's homes and attachments to place.", "It helps document material loss alongside damage to community ties, identity and belonging.", "Its use in testimony or analysis requires distinguishing the descriptive concept from any specific legal finding about intent or responsibility." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q125776890: domicide", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125776890", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Domicide", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domicide", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meanings-and-instance-boundaries", "name": "Meanings and instance boundaries", "description": "Identify which account of domicide is being applied and what would satisfy it.", "rationale": "Classification must expose disagreements about scale, context, intention, and the meaning of home.", "layers": [ { "id": "definitions-and-proponents", "name": "Definitions and proponents", "description": "Keep each definition attached to its author and intended use.", "findings": [ { "id": "breadth-of-domicide", "name": "Breadth of domicide", "description": "The publisher's account of Porteous and Smith's work includes home destruction associated with political and development projects, from dwellings to homelands; the draft therefore should not assume a war-only scope. [Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home](https://utpdistribution.com/9780773522589/domicide/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose definition is being used, and does it include development projects and destruction of individual homes?", "kind": "definition", "id": "breadth-of-domicide-q01" }, { "text": "Which competing definition would include or exclude this episode, and on which criterion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "breadth-of-domicide-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "case-inclusion-tests", "name": "Case inclusion tests", "description": "Separate an operational classification from a rhetorical label or an independently determined legal category.", "findings": [ { "id": "minimum-evidence-for-an-instance", "name": "Minimum evidence for an instance", "description": "Specify the required evidence of home, destructive action, deliberateness, and harm without inventing a universal numerical threshold.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations must be present before this episode meets the selected definition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "minimum-evidence-for-an-instance-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence would instead support accidental loss, ordinary demolition, or displacement without destruction of home?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "minimum-evidence-for-an-instance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "home-and-inhabitants", "name": "Home and inhabitants", "description": "Establish the home that is alleged to have been destroyed and the people whose lives were anchored there.", "rationale": "Counting damaged buildings cannot establish the full object or human consequences of domicide.", "layers": [ { "id": "inhabitation-and-belonging", "name": "Inhabitation and belonging", "description": "Document lived relationships to home independently of formal title.", "findings": [ { "id": "whose-home", "name": "Whose home", "description": "Record residents, tenants, informal occupants, and absent or displaced inhabitants where evidence supports their relationship to the place.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who regarded and used this place as home before the destructive process, including people already displaced?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "whose-home-q01" }, { "text": "How do accounts of home differ between inhabitants, property records, and the actors carrying out destruction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "whose-home-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dimensions-of-home-loss", "name": "Dimensions of home loss", "description": "Distinguish loss of shelter from loss of domestic practices, relationships, and place-based continuity.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-and-lived-loss", "name": "Material and lived loss", "description": "Assess habitability and inhabitants' reported losses separately, without imposing a single score for the meaning of home.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which capacities for living at home were destroyed, and which belongings, relationships, or practices were lost?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-and-lived-loss-q01" }, { "text": "Under the selected definition, can destruction of home be established while the dwelling remains standing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "material-and-lived-loss-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "agency-and-destructive-process", "name": "Agency and destructive process", "description": "Connect alleged intentions and decisions to specific mechanisms of home destruction.", "rationale": "Domicide assessment requires a defensible account of human agency rather than an inference from ruins alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "decisions-intentions-and-roles", "name": "Decisions, intentions, and roles", "description": "Separate stated purposes, inferred intentions, authorisation, and implementation.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-of-deliberate-destruction", "name": "Evidence of deliberate destruction", "description": "Link actor-specific claims to orders, plans, testimony, conduct, and counterevidence; distinguish intentional acts from intent to destroy home.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which evidence supports an intention to destroy home, rather than only an intention to undertake the action that caused damage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-of-deliberate-destruction-q01" }, { "text": "Which actors planned, authorised, and implemented the destruction, and where is the causal link disputed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-of-deliberate-destruction-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mechanisms-and-sequence", "name": "Mechanisms and sequence", "description": "Trace how acts and policies remove the possibility of maintaining a home.", "findings": [ { "id": "destruction-and-continuing-exclusion", "name": "Destruction and continuing exclusion", "description": "Reconstruct demolition or other destructive acts alongside eviction, access restrictions, and subsequent barriers to return, without assuming every stage independently qualifies as domicide.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sequence connects removal of inhabitants, physical destruction, and any later prohibition of return?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "destruction-and-continuing-exclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Which stages constitute destruction under the chosen definition, and which are causes, consequences, or separate acts?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "destruction-and-continuing-exclusion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "extent-pattern-and-evidence", "name": "Extent, pattern, and evidence", "description": "Establish how much home was lost, over what period, and with what evidential confidence.", "rationale": "A visible damaged site cannot by itself establish population impact or a systematic pattern.", "layers": [ { "id": "counting-home-destruction", "name": "Counting home destruction", "description": "Keep structures, dwelling units, households, and inhabitants distinct.", "findings": [ { "id": "baseline-and-loss-estimates", "name": "Baseline and loss estimates", "description": "Record dated baselines, damage categories, occupancy assumptions, and uncertainty in estimates of homes lost.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many dwellings became uninhabitable relative to the pre-event baseline, and how was habitability assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "baseline-and-loss-estimates-q01" }, { "text": "How were affected households counted when buildings contained multiple homes or residents had already fled?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "baseline-and-loss-estimates-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "patterns-and-corroboration", "name": "Patterns and corroboration", "description": "Test whether episodes belong to a connected process and what different evidence types establish.", "findings": [ { "id": "pattern-without-assumed-intent", "name": "Pattern without assumed intent", "description": "Compare timing, location, selection, and decision links while separating evidence of damage from evidence of motive or policy.", "questions": [ { "text": "What links separate destroyed homes to a common decision, campaign, or policy rather than geographic proximity alone?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pattern-without-assumed-intent-q01" }, { "text": "Where do imagery, administrative records, and inhabitants' accounts corroborate or contradict one another?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pattern-without-assumed-intent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "prevention-restoration-and-accountability", "name": "Prevention, restoration, and accountability", "description": "Identify responses to threatened and completed destruction according to evidence and inhabitants' priorities.", "rationale": "An actionable model must distinguish stopping destruction, rebuilding housing, restoring home, and obtaining a remedy.", "layers": [ { "id": "preventing-further-home-loss", "name": "Preventing further home loss", "description": "Identify pending destructive decisions and feasible points of intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-before-irreversible-loss", "name": "Intervention before irreversible loss", "description": "Record upcoming demolitions or other threats, actors able to change them, and inhabitants' preferred protective actions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which pending decision or activity threatens further destruction, and who can suspend or modify it?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-before-irreversible-loss-q01" }, { "text": "Which protective measures do affected inhabitants seek, and could those measures themselves produce lasting exclusion?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-before-irreversible-loss-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "restoring-home-and-seeking-remedy", "name": "Restoring home and seeking remedy", "description": "Assess recovery through inhabitants' ability and choice to re-establish home, while keeping legal determinations separately sourced.", "findings": [ { "id": "inhabitant-defined-restoration", "name": "Inhabitant-defined restoration", "description": "Compare return, repair, rebuilding, restitution, compensation, and alternative settlement against documented losses and preferences.", "questions": [ { "text": "What would affected inhabitants regard as restoration, and which barriers prevent their preferred outcome?", "kind": "action", "id": "inhabitant-defined-restoration-q01" }, { "text": "Which remedy or investigation pathway is supported by current jurisdiction-specific authority and the available evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "inhabitant-defined-restoration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The extreme/everyday distinction is associated with J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra E. Smith; it is an analytical distinction rather than a universal classification.", "Definitions differ over whether deliberate physical destruction is necessary or whether policies that sever attachment and make continued residence impossible also qualify.", "This is recall-based conceptual coverage; any claim about domicide's formal legal status requires separate verification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of domicide this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Extreme domicide associated with war or large-scale political violence", "Everyday domicide associated with development, redevelopment or displacement" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of domicide this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Human geography research on home, displacement and loss of place", "Analysis of housing destruction during armed conflict", "Assessment of the social and cultural consequences of forced relocation", "Criticism of redevelopment projects that destroy established homes and communities" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of domicide this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Reducing home destruction to counts of damaged buildings overlooks belonging, memory and community relationships.", "Treating every displacement or housing loss as domicide obscures disagreements about intentionality and scope.", "Inferring an intention to destroy home solely from physical damage can overstate the evidence.", "Rebuilding dwellings may leave losses of community, cultural continuity and attachment unresolved." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of domicide this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Urbicide", "difference": "Urbicide concerns destruction of cities or urban life; domicide centres on home and can occur in rural as well as urban settings." }, { "name": "Forced displacement", "difference": "Forced displacement concerns compelled movement; domicide concerns destruction of home, which may accompany movement but is not defined by movement alone." }, { "name": "Demolition", "difference": "Demolition is physical removal of a structure; domicide requires attention to its destruction as someone's home and the associated social meanings." }, { "name": "Eviction", "difference": "Eviction removes occupants from premises; whether it constitutes domicide depends on the destruction of home involved and the definition being used." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of domicide this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which definitions and proponents should anchor the model, and how do they differ over individual cases, development projects, and systematic destruction during conflict?", "What threshold separates deliberate destruction of home from foreseeable but unintended loss, reckless conduct, or neglect?", "When should permanent exclusion, erasure of domestic meaning, or destruction of supporting services count as domicide without physical demolition?", "How can research compare lived losses across settings while preserving inhabitants' differing understandings of home?", "What is the current legal treatment of the term in each relevant jurisdiction, and how does it relate to independently established offences and remedies?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 15, "questions": 25 } }