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ISBN: 9781487524081 Year: 2020 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,
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It is virtually impossible to understand the phenomenon of genocide without a clear understanding of the complexities of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG). This brief but cogent book provides an introduction to the unique wording, legal terminology, and key components of the convention, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. Providing clarity on the distinctions between genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing, this book is designed to be an entry into further study of genocide in its legal, historical, political, and philosophical dimensions. Key terms, such as intent and motive, are explained, case studies are included, and an annotated bibliography at the conclusion of the book offers suggested avenues for more advanced study of the UNCG.
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ISBN: 1003006000 1000096408 1003006000 Year: 2021 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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"This book critiques the dominant physical and biological interpretation of the Genocide Convention and argues that the idea of "culture" is central to properly understanding the crime of genocide. Using Raphael Lemkin's personal papers, archival materials from the State Department and the UN, as well as the mid-century secondary literature, it situates the convention in the longstanding debate between Enlightenment notions of universality and individualism, and Romantic notions of particularism and holism. The author conducts a thorough review of the treaty and its preparatory work to show that the drafters brought strong culturalist ideas to the debate and that Lemkin's ideas were held widely in the immediate postwar period. Reconstructing the mid-century conversation on genocide and situating it in the much broader mid-century discourse on justice and society he demonstrates that culture is not a distraction to be read out of the Genocide Convention; it is the very reason it exists"--
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office,
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Ethnic conflict --- Crimes against humanity --- Rohingya (Burmese people) --- Refugees --- Humanitarian assistance, American --- Violence against --- International cooperation. --- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide --- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
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