TY - BOOK ID - 77937944 TI - The genocide convention : the legacy of 60 years PY - 2012 SN - 1280698551 9786613675514 900422131X 9789004221314 9789004153288 9004153284 9781280698552 6613675512 PB - Leiden ; Boston : M. Nijhoff Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Genocide. KW - Cleansing, Ethnic KW - Ethnic cleansing KW - Ethnic purification KW - Ethnocide KW - Purification, Ethnic KW - Crime KW - Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide KW - Convención para la prevención y la sanción del delito de genocidio KW - Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide KW - Convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide KW - Fang chih chi chʻeng chih wei hai chung tsu tsui kung yüeh KW - Konvent︠s︡ii︠a︡ o preduprezhdenii prestuplenii︠a︡ genot︠s︡ida i nakazanii za nego UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77937944 AB - Genocide is widely acknowledged as ‘the crime of crimes’. Such universal condemnation understandably triggers both loose talk (calling each and every massacre ‘genocide’) and utter reluctance in political circles to use the ‘G-word’. The social construction of genocide reflects the deeper question whether the rigid legal concept of genocide – as it emerges in the Genocide Convention and has been maintained ever since – still corresponds with the historical and social perception of the phenomenon. This book is the product of an intellectual encounter between scholars of historical and legal disciplines which have joined forces to address this question. The authors are strongly inspired by the idea that the multi-disciplinary research of and education on genocide may contribute to a more appropriate reaction and prevention of genocide. ER -