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"Provides an authoritative evaluation of the current perception of the crime, as it appears in the decisions of judicial authorities, the writings of the foremost academic experts in the field, and in the texts of Commission Reports. Genocide constitutes one of the most significant problems in contemporary international law. Within the past fifteen years, the world has witnessed genocidal conduct in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the debate on the commission of genocide in Darfur and the DR Congo is still ongoing. Within the same period, the prosecution of suspected génocidaires has taken place in international tribunals, internationalised tribunals and domestic courts; and the names of Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadzić and Saddam Hussein feature among those against whom charges of genocide have been brought. Pursuing an interdisciplinary examination of the existing case law on genocide in international and domestic courts, Elements of Genocide provides a comprehensive and accessible reflection on the crime of genocide, and its inherent complexities"--Page [i].

The Genocide Convention explores the question of whether the law and genocide law in particular can prevent mass atrocities. The volume explains how genocide came to be accepted as a legal norm and analyzes the intent required for this categorization. The work also discusses individual suits against states for genocide and, finally, explores the utility of genocide as a legal concept.

This book brings together transcripts of the round table discussions from the historic International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide and emphasizes proposals for the prevention of future acts of genocide.

Cover -- Quartino -- Dedica -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - International criminal trials after the 1994 genocide -- Chapter 2 - Domestic judicial responses to international crimes -- Chapter 3 - More on redress in and by Rwanda under international law -- Chapter 4 - Redress by other international actors for the 1994 genocide -- Conclusions -- Treaties and other instruments -- Table of cases -- Bibliography (selected) -- Finito di stampare -- Volumi pubblicati.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- The Dark Side of Humans -- Ton Zwaan -- Introduction -- Genocide, an Enduring Problem of our Age -- Uğur Ümit Üngör -- Part I - Causes of Genocide -- 1. Ethnic Nationalism and Genocide -- Constructing "the Other" in Romania and Serbia -- Diana Oncioiu -- 2. Demonic Transitions -- How Ordinary People Can Commit Extraordinary Evil -- Christophe Busch -- 3. State Deviancy and Genocide -- The State as a Shelter and a Prison -- Kjell Anderson -- Part II - Courses of Genocide -- 4. Hunting Specters -- Paranoid Purges in the Filipino Communist Guerrilla Movement

Volume II of the International Criminal Law Practitioner Library series focuses on the core categories of international crimes: crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes. The authors present a comprehensive and critical review of the law on the elements of these crimes and their underlying offences, and examine how they interact with the forms of responsibility discussed in Volume I. They also consider the effect of the focus in early ICTY and ICTR proceedings on relatively low-level accused for the development of legal definitions that are sometimes ill-suited for leadership cases, where the accused had little or no physical involvement in the crimes. The book's main focus is the jurisprudence of the ad hoc Tribunals, but the approaches of the ICC and the various hybrid tribunals are also given significant attention. The relevant jurisprudence up to 1 December 2007 has been surveyed, making this a highly useful and timely work