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The twentieth century has been called, not inaccurately, a century of genocide. And the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen little change, with genocidal violence in Darfur, Congo, Sri Lanka, and Syria. Why is genocide so widespread, and so difficult to stop, across societies that differ so much culturally, technologically, and politically? That is the question that this collection addresses, offering a range of perspectives from different disciplines to attempt to understand the pervasiveness of genocidal violence.

Genocide. --- Genocide (International law) --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- International criminal law --- Crime --- Genocide

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Could the prevailing view that genocide is the ultimate crime be wrong? Is it possible that it is actually on an equal footing with war crimes and crimes against humanity? Is the power of the word genocide derived from something other than jurisprudence? And why should a hierarchical abstraction assume such importance in conferring meaning on suffering and injustice? Could reducing a reality that is beyond reason and words into a fixed category undermine the very progress and justice that such labelling purports to achieve? For some, these questions may border on the international law equivalent of blasphemy. This original and daring book, written by a renowned scholar and practitioner who was the first Legal Advisor to the UN Prosecutor at The Hague, is a probing reflection on empathy and our faith in global justice.

Genocide. --- Genocide (International law) --- International criminal law --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- Law. --- War crimes. --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Law --- General and Others --- Law of armed conflicts. Humanitarian law --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure

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This book examines the position of ‘contextual elements’ as a constitutive element of the legal definition of the crime of genocide, and determines the extent to which an individual génocidaire is required to act within a particular genocidal context. Unlike other books in the field of the study of the crime of genocide, this book captures the nuance and the complex issues of the debate by providing book-length comprehensive examination of the position of contextual elements in light of the evolution of genocide as a concept and the literal legal definition of the crime of genocide, which expressly characterized the crime with only the existence of an individualistic intent to destroy a group. With scholars of international criminal law, students, researchers, practitioners in the field, and international criminal tribunals in mind, the author tackles many of the issues raised on the position of contextual elements in both academic literature and judicial decisions. Nasour Koursami is the Director of Applied Research and a Lecturer at the National School of Administration in Chad. He studied law at Cardiff and Bristol Universities and holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Edinburgh.

Genocide (International law) --- Genocide. --- Law. --- Human rights. --- International humanitarian law. --- International criminal law. --- International Criminal Law. --- International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict. --- Human Rights. --- State Crimes. --- War Crimes. --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- International criminal law --- Political Crimes. --- International Criminal Law . --- Humanitarian conventions --- International humanitarian law --- War (International law) --- Criminal law, International --- ICL (International criminal law) --- Criminal law --- International law --- Criminal jurisdiction --- International crimes --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation

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This book provides an original legal analysis of child soldiers recruited into armed groups or forces committing mass atrocities and/or genocide as the victims of the genocidal forcible transfer of children. Legal argument is made regarding the lack of criminal culpability of such child soldier 'recruits' for conflict-related international crimes and the inapplicability of currently recommended judicial and non-judicial accountability mechanisms in such cases. The book challenges various anthropological accounts of child soldiers' alleged 'tactical agency' to resist committing atrocity as members of armed groups or forces committing mass atrocity and/or genocide. Also provided are original interpretations of relevant international law including an interpretation of the Rome Statute age-based exclusion from prosecution of persons who were under 18 at the time of perpetrating the crime as substantive law setting an international standard for the humane treatment of child soldiers.

Child soldiers. --- Children and genocide. --- Genocide (International law). --- Law. --- War crimes. --- Child soldiers --- Children and genocide --- War crimes --- Population transfers --- International Law --- Law, Politics & Government --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Treaties, International --- Law, General & Comparative --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Children and war. --- Psychological aspects. --- Boys as soldiers --- Children as soldiers --- War and children --- Human rights. --- International humanitarian law. --- International criminal law. --- International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict. --- Human Rights. --- International Criminal Law. --- Soldiers --- War --- International Criminal Law . --- Criminal law, International --- ICL (International criminal law) --- Criminal law --- International law --- Criminal jurisdiction --- International crimes --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Humanitarian conventions --- International humanitarian law --- War (International law) --- Law and legislation

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The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics? A Rhetorical Crime shows how genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in propaganda battles between the United States and the Soviet Union. Over the course of the Cold War era, nearly eighty countries were accused of genocide, and yet there were few real-time interventions to stop the atrocities committed by genocidal regimes like the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. Renowned genocide scholar Anton Weiss-Wendt employs a unique comparative approach, analyzing the statements of Soviet and American politicians, historians, and legal scholars in order to deduce why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action.

Cold War. --- Genocide intervention --- Genocide (International law) --- International criminal law --- Humanitarian intervention --- World politics --- Political aspects. --- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide --- Convención para la prevención y la sanción del delito de genocidio --- Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide --- Convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide --- Fang chih chi chʻeng chih wei hai chung tsu tsui kung yüeh --- Konvent︠s︡ii︠a︡ o preduprezhdenii prestuplenii︠a︡ genot︠s︡ida i nakazanii za nego --- Soviet Union --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations. --- Communist. --- Genocide Convention. --- Raphael Lemkin. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet genocide. --- Soviet-American. --- US. --- USSR. --- genocide. --- human rights. --- international. --- politics.