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"In 1948, the United Nations established the Genocide Convention to legally define genocide as actions intended to destroy a particular group of people based on race, religion, ethnicity, and other defining characteristics. The goal was to prevent and punish future acts of genocide, but a number of mass killings have followed since its establishment, and in some situations whether these executions qualify as genocides is surprisingly unclear. The viewpoints in this title explore what genocide is and isn't, as well as historical and contemporary examples of genocide. They also examine potential political and social solutions to prevent future genocides"--

This book explores the subject of genocide through key debates and case studies. It analyses the dynamics of genocide - the processes and mechanisms of acts committed with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, religious or racial group - in order to shed light upon its origins, characteristics and consequences.Debating Genocide begins with an introduction to the concept of genocide. It then examines the colonial genocides at the end of the 19th- and start of the 20th-centuries; the Armenian Genocide of 1915-16; the Nazi `Final Solution'; the Nazi genocide of the Gypsies; mass murder in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge; the genocides in the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; and the genocide in Sudan in the early 21st century. It also includes a thematic chapter which covers gender and genocide, as well as issues of memory and memorialisation. Finally, the book considers how genocides end, as well as the questions of resolution and denial, with Lisa Pine examining the debates around prediction and prevention and the R2P (Responsibility to Protect) initiative.This book is crucial for any students wanting to understand why genocides have occurred, why they still occur and what the key historical discussions around this subject entail.

Considers the lessons learned from the Rwandan genocide on its tenth anniversary. The new Rwandan Constitution is geared toward addressing the social damage, the danger to peace and stability posed by an ideology of ethnic exclusiveness, the question of justice for those who committed crimes of genocide, and aid provision to genocide survivors. The inaction and impotence of the United Nations in 1994 is noted, along with the role of the mass media and external forces in the genocide.

A critique of the proclamation by the US government that recent events in Darfur qualify as "genocide." It is acknowledged that, following the letter of the 1948 Genocide Convention, these events do, indeed, seem to represent genocide. However, in practice, the term has generally been used in more extreme cases than the majority of cases that could be justified by the Convention alone. Determining that a genocide has occurred in Darfur responded to a range of pressure groups who, it is claimed, subscribe to an "interventionist narrative" that falsely imagines the US is normally responsible for putting an end to genocide and that it can and should continue to do so. This determination also serves an ulterior motive of attacking Muslim Arabs who are seen as terrorists, while imposing an Arab-African dichotomy that is particularly inaccurate in Darfur. Because of the external imposition of this dichotomy, conflict between people labeled according to it may worsen.