Overview
- First comprehensive treatment of genocide prevention
- Anchored in the study of past and current genocide
- Interdisciplinary approach to identify concrete solutions
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 7)
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About this book
“Never again” stands as one the central pledges of the international community following the end of the Second World War, upon full realization of the massive scale of the Nazi extermination programme. Genocide stands as an intolerable assault on a sense of common humanity embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other fundamental international instruments, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the United Nations Charter. And yet, since the Second World War, the international community has proven incapable of effectively preventing the occurrence of more genocides in places like Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sudan. Is genocide actually preventable, or is “ever again” a more accurate catchphrase to capture the reality of this phenomenon? The essays in this volume explore the complex nature of genocide and the relative promise of various avenues identified by the international community to attempt to put a definitive end to its occurrence. Essays focus on a conceptualization of genocide as a social and political phenomenon, on the identification of key actors (Governments, international institutions, the media, civil society, individuals), and on an exploration of the relative promise of different means to prevent genocide (criminal accountability, civil disobedience, shaming, intervention).
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Keywords
- Accountability
- Activism
- Cambodia
- Citizenship
- Civil Disobedience
- Civil Society
- Congo
- Criminal Accountability
- Criminal Court
- Darfur
- Economic Sanctions
- Genocide
- Genocide in China
- Human Rights
- Human Rights Law
- Humanity
- Incitement
- International Justice
- Iraq
- Irish Famine
- Media
- Mercenaries
- Nazi
- Peace
- Peacekeeping
- Prevention
- Rwanda
- Sudan
- United Nations Charter
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reconceptualizing Genocide
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Un/Prevented Genocide
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Prevention Beyond the State
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Prevention Beyond The State
Reviews
“The essays reflect a range of disciplinary perspectives and approaches, including history, sociology, psychology, journalism, international relations, and law, unified around a theme of genocide prevention … . Contributions vary from the theoretical, to the descriptive, to the practical based on personal experiences. The book is thus likely to appeal to a wide audience interested in engaging with both theoretical and practical perspectives on the dynamics of genocide and what we might focus upon in order to prevent its recurrence.” (Joanna Kyriakakis, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Vol. 10, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Confronting Genocide
Editors: René Provost, Payam Akhavan
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9840-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9839-9Published: 30 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1209-6Due: 10 February 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9840-5Published: 11 November 2010
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 374
Topics: Political Science, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law