Genocide and Human Rights
Published on 5. January 2007
Book
Hardback
500 pages
978-0-7546-2448-6 (ISBN)
Description
Genocide is both the gravest of crimes under international law and the ultimate violation of human rights. Recent years have seen major legal and political developments concerning genocide and other mass violations of rights. This collection brings together, for the first time, leading essays covering definitions, legislation, the sociology of genocide, prevention, humanitarian intervention, accountability, punishment and reconciliation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-2448-6 (9780754624486)
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Person
Mark Lattimer is Executive Director of the Minority Rights Group International, UK.
Content
Part I Definitions and Legislation; Raphael Lemkin (1947), Genocide as a crime in international law; Matthew Lippman (1998), The convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide: fifty years later; Guglielmo Verdirame (2000), The genocide definition in the jurisprudence of the ad hoc tribunals; Catherine Mackinnon (1994), Rape, genocide and women's human rights; B. Van Schaack (1997), The crime of political genocide: repairing the genocide convention's blind spot; Part II Understanding Genocide and Mass Violations of Rights; Helen Fein (1978), A formula for genocide: comparison of the Turkish genocide (1915) and the German Holocaust (1939 - 45); Benjamin Madley (2004), Patterns of frontier genocide 1803 - 1910: the Aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California, and the Herero of Namibia; William A. Schabas (2000), Hate speech in Rwanda: the road to genocide; Ervin Staub (1993), The psychology of bystanders, perpetrators, and heroic helpers; Michael Mann (2000), Were the perpetrators of genocide "ordinary men" or "real Nazis"? results from fifteen hundred biographies; Part III Preventing Genocide; Barbara Harff (2003), No lessons learned from the Holocaust? assessing risks of genocide and political mass murder since 1955; Louis Rene Beres (1988), Justice and realpolitik: international law and the prevention of genocide; Jack Donnelly (2002), Genocide and humanitarian intervention; Jonathan I. Charney (1999), Anticipatory humanitarian intervention in Kosovo; W. Michael Reisman (1996), Legal responses to genocide and other massive violations of human rights; Part IV Punishment and Reconciliation; Juan E. Mendez (1997), Accountability for past abuses; Stanley Cohen (1995), State crimes of previous regimes: knowledge, accountability, and policing of the past; David Wippman (1999 - 2000), Atrocities, deterrence and the limits of international justice; Israel W. Charny (2003), A classification of denials of the Holocaust and other genocides; John Borneman (2002), Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing: listening, retribution, affiliation.