TY - BOOK ID - 3409930 TI - Beyond educide : sanctions, occupation and the struggle for higher education in Iraq AU - Adriaensens, Dirk AU - Treunen, Ward AU - Zemni, Sami AU - Parker, Christopher AU - De Cauter, Lieven AU - Academia Press PY - 2012 SN - 9789038218861 9038218869 PB - Gent Academia Press DB - UniCat KW - Education, Higher KW - War and education KW - Education KW - Education and state KW - Education and state. KW - Education, Higher. KW - War and education. KW - Political aspects KW - Political aspects. KW - Iraq. KW - Higher education and state KW - Iraq KW - Congresses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3409930 AB - Iraq's former pride, its education system, has collapsed. The international seminar in Ghent was a significant first step in determining whether the extrajudicial killings, abductions, forced displacement of Iraqi academics and other professionals, the destruction of the educational infrastructure, during the war and subsequent occupation, are indeed a case of pre-meditated elimination of Iraq's intellectual elite and education system, and could constitute "Educide". This word has yet to enter the international dictionary of crimes; it is a composite of education and genocide (which the author has combined) to refer to genocide of the educated segments of Iraqi society. It can only be hoped that both the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court will pursue the question of possible educide in Iraq. ER -