An Act of Genocide
Author: Karen Stote
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781552667323
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An in-depth investigation of the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women carried out by the Canadian government.
Author: Karen Stote
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781552667323
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An in-depth investigation of the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women carried out by the Canadian government.
Author: Elisa Novic
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0198787162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cultural genocide is the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other elements that make one group of people distinct from another.Cultural genocide remains a recurrent topic, appearing not only in the form of wide-ranging claims about the commission of cultural genocide in diverse contexts but also in the legal sphere, as exemplified by the discussions before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and also the drafting of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. These discussions have, however, displayed the lack of a uniform understanding of the concept of cultural genocide and thus of the role that international law is expected to fulfil in this regard. The Concept of Cultural Genocide: An International Law Perspective details how international law has approached the core idea underlying the concept of cultural genocide and how this framework can be strengthened and fostered. It traces developments from the early conceptualisation of cultural genocide to the contemporary question of its reparation. Through this journey, the book discusses the evolution of various branches of international law in relation to both cultural protection and cultural destruction in light of a number of legal cases in which either the concept of cultural genocide or the idea of cultural destruction has been discussed. Such cases include the destruction of cultural and religious heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the forced removals of Aboriginal children in Australia and Canada, and the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in relation to Indigenous and tribal groups' cultural destruction.
Author: Larry May
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-02-26
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1139484265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Larry May examines the normative and conceptual problems concerning the crime of genocide. Genocide arises out of the worst of horrors. Legally, however, the unique character of genocide is reduced to a technical requirement, that the perpetrator's act manifest an intention to destroy a protected group. From this definition, many puzzles arise. How are groups to be identified and why are only four groups subject to genocide? What is the harm of destroying a group and why is this harm thought to be independent of killing many people? How can a person in the dock, as an individual, be responsible for a collective crime like genocide? How should we understand the specific crimes associated with genocide, especially instigation, incitement, and complicity? Paying special attention to the recent case law concerning the Rwanda genocide, May offers the first philosophical exploration of the crime of genocide in international criminal law.
Author: Paul Behrens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1136168559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Elements of Genocide provides an authoritative evaluation of the current perception of the crime, as it appears in the decisions of judicial authorities, the writings of the foremost academic experts in the field, and in the texts of Commission Reports. Genocide constitutes one of the most significant problems in contemporary international law. Within the last fifteen years, the world has witnessed genocidal conduct in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the debate on the commission of genocide in Darfur and the DR Congo is ongoing. Within the same period, the prosecution of suspected génocidaires has taken place in international tribunals, internationalised tribunals and domestic courts; and the names of Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic and Saddam Hussein feature among those against whom charges of genocide were brought. Pursuing an interdisciplinary examination of the existing case law on genocide in international and domestic courts, Elements of Genocide comprehensive and accessible reflection on the crime of genocide, and its inherent complexities.
Author: Raphael Lemkin
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 718
ISBN-13: 1584775769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In this study Polish emigre Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the term 'genocide' and defined it as a subject of international law"--Provided by publisher.
Author: A. Dirk Moses
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 611
ISBN-13: 1107103584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historically delineates the problems of genocide as a concept in relation to rival categories of mass violence.
Author: H. G. Van Der Wilt
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2012-05-16
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9004153284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Genocide is acknowledged as 'the crime of crimes'. This book is the product of an encounter between scholars of historical and legal disciplines which have joined forces to address the question of whether the legal concept of genocide still corresponds with the historical and social perception of the phenomenon.
Author: Bradley Campbell
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2015-10-29
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0813937426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Geometry of Genocide, Bradley Campbell argues that genocide is best understood not as deviant behavior but as social control—a response to perceived deviant behavior on the part of victims. Using Donald Black’s method of pure sociology, Campbell considers genocide in relation to three features of social life: diversity, inequality, and intimacy. According to this theory, genocidal conflicts begin with changes in diversity and inequality, such as when two previously separated ethnic groups come into contact, or when a subordinate ethnic group attempts to rise in status. Further, conflicts are more likely to result in genocide when they occur in a context of social distance and inequality and when aggressors and victims cannot be easily separated. Campbell applies his approach to five cases: the killings of American Indians in 1850s California, Muslims in 2002 India and 1992 Bosnia, Tutsis in 1994 Rwanda, and Jews in 1940s Europe. These case studies, which focus in detail on particular incidents within each instance of genocide, demonstrate the theory’s ability to explain an array of factors, including why genocide occurs and who participates. Campbell’s theory uniquely connects the study of genocide to the larger study of conflict and social control. By situating genocide among these broader phenomena, The Geometry of Genocide provides a novel and compelling explanation of genocide, while furthering our understanding of why humans have conflicts and why they respond to conflict as they do.
Author: Alain Destexhe
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780745310411
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'An angry and eloquent book.' Financial Times'Alain Destexhe, a former Secretary General of the relief agency Médecins sans Frontières and now a senator in the Belgium Parliament, who has writted Rwanda in Genocide in the Twentieth Century, a treatise to counter the catch-all of media coverage in which 'all catastrophes are treated alike and reduced to their lowest common denominator - compassion on the part of the onlooker.' Observer
Author: Samantha Power
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 0465050891
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America failed to prevent or stop 20th-century campaigns to exterminate Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans.