Articles on Genocide and Genocide Prevention

Genocide Watch provides a collection of aricles specifically addressing genocide and its prevention.

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Genocide

Invoked with a frequency, familiarity, and reverence rarely associated with instruments of law, the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide has come to embody the conscience of humanity. Yet nearly sixty years after it was drafted, the moral promise of the Genocide Convention has at best been only partially redeemed. While states have belatedly honoured their responsibility to punish genocide, they have shown no corresponding will to prevent it, as the treaty also requires.

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Genocide

In recent years, genocide, or attempts to completely erase adversaries--either through death or exile, have become increasingly common. These resources describe the special problems posed by genocide and other war crimes.

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Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century

Leo Kuper describes the political situations which have resulted in genocide, shows how technological developments have made massacres more feasible, and discusses the influence of larger nations in fomenting conflict. This book review assesses Kuper's arguments and examples from the perspective of Modern Judaism.

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Redefining Genocide

"Thus, genocide is not as easy to prevent, stop and eradicate as originally thought. One of the main issues related to the prevention of genocide is its definition. Since Raphael Lemkin first coined the term in 1944, genocide has been understood differently by different people. This paper attempts to give genocide a new definition." -- from Website

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The Encyclopedia of Genocide

"The Encyclopedia of Genocide is a rededication to human life. It is an encyclopedia of humankind's beginning struggle to control and prevent the mass slaughters of unarmed beings that, tragically, take place very often on our planet." -- from Website

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The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies

Genocide is not an invention of the twentieth century, say Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn in this absorbing book, but has occurred throughout history in all parts of the world. This study--the first comprehensive survey of the history and sociology of genocide--presents over two dozen examples of the one-sided mass slaughter of peoples, spanning the centuries from antiquity to the present.

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The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide

Samuel Totten brings together in one comprehensive collection the research and findings in various fields, such as political science, sociology, history, and psychology, to enable specialists in genocide studies, peace studies, and conflict resolution to benefit from the insights of a diverse range of scholars and foster an understanding of how the various components of genocide studies connect.

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War Crimes

Although inhuman acts have been committed in wars throughout history, the concept of war crimes is relatively new. It was only with the Holocaust and other atrocities of World War II that people began to think of some of the horrors of war as crimes for which perpetrators could be held legally accountable.

Beyond Intractability Essay