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The twentieth century has been called, not inaccurately, a century of genocide. And the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen little change, with genocidal violence in Darfur, Congo, Sri Lanka, and Syria. Why is genocide so widespread, and so difficult to stop, across societies that differ so much culturally, technologically, and politically? [-]That's the question that this collection addresses, gathering a stellar roster of contributors to offer a range of perspectives from different disciplines to attempt to understand the pervasiveness of genocidal violence. Challenging outdated beliefs and conventions that continue to influence our understanding, Genocide constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on mass violence.[-]

Intro -- title page -- copyright page -- 1. What Is Genocide? -- 2. Has There Always Been Genocide? -- 3. What Are the Causes of Genocide? -- 4. Infamous Genocides -- 5. How Does Genocide Affect People? -- 6. Can Genocide be Stopped? -- Appendix: Genocide by Continent, Since 1900 -- International Organizations -- Series Glossary -- Further Reading -- Internet Resources -- Index -- Untitled -- Blank Page.

"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"--

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Recognizing and Defining Genocide -- 1. The International Definitions of Genocide Are Being Challenged -- 2. The United States Defines Genocide in a Way That Suits Its Interests -- 3. Israel Should Encourage a Greater Understanding of the Universality of Genocide -- 4. England Should Recognize the Armenian Genocide -- 5. Germany Has Not Recognized Armenian Genocide Because of the Political Implications -- 6. Turkey's Denial of Armenian Genocide Is Holding It Back -- 7. The Srebrenica Massacre Fits the Definition of Genocide -- 8. Lithuania's Push for a Genocide Law Is Appalling -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Contemporary Accounts of Genocide -- 1. The Democratic Republic of the Congo Is Devastated by Chronic Genocide -- 2. Western Sahara Genocide Is Being Ignored by the European Union -- 3. Sri Lanka Committed Genocide of Its Tamil Minority -- 4. Sudan's South Kordofan Province Is Devastated by a Renewed Genocide -- 5. Israel Is Committing an Ongoing Genocide of the Palestinian People -- 6. Uganda Is Sanctioning a Gay Genocide -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Preventing and Prosecuting Genocide -- 1. Rwanda: Mixed Legacy for Community-Based Genocide Courts -- 2. Rwanda's "Genocidal Ideology" Law Is Too Restrictive -- 3. Cambodian Trials of Former Khmer Rouge Soldiers Stir Up Controversy -- 4. Iran Must Face the Consequences of Its Attempts to Incite Genocide -- 5. Canada Should Support the UN in Preventing Mass Violence -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Legacy of Genocide -- 1. Rwanda Is Moving Forward from the 1994 Genocide -- 2. The Rwanda Genocide Led to More Aggressive International Justice Efforts

Cover -- Title Page -- Other Books in the At Issue Series -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. We Must Commit to the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide -- 2. Turkey Must Acknowledge and Remember the Armenian Genocide -- 3. Stalin's Genocide by Famine in Ukraine Deserves Public Recognition -- 4. The Time to Remember the Holocaust Is Also the Time to Act -- 5. Intent to Destroy Must Be Proven in the Genocide Case Against Myanmar -- 6. Lessons to Avoid Another Darfur Genocide -- 7. American Involvement Is Critical to Genocide Prevention -- 8. Life Force Atrocities Are Early Indicators of Genocide -- 9. War Produces Conditions for Genocide -- 10. Hannah Arendt Was Wrong: Nazi Evil Was Not Banal -- 11. Recognition of the Armenian Genocide Could Strengthen Turkey's Position -- 12. Auschwitz Evidence Causes Judge to Rule Against David Irving, Holocaust Denier -- 13. The Internet Must Be the New Battleground Against Holocaust Denial -- 14. Early Warning Signs of Genocide Are Possible to Detect -- 15. UN Peacekeepers May Thwart Missions Through Their Own Violence -- 16. To Effectively Address Genocides, International Law Must Be Decolonized -- 17. Ordinary People Can Perpetrate Genocides -- 18. Surviving Genocide in Colonial Namibia -- 19. The United States Is Complicit in the Saudi-Led Genocide in Yemen -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Genocide is a topic beset by ambiguities over meaning and double standards. In this stimulating and gripping history, William Rubinstein sets out to clarify the meaning of the term genocide and its historical evolution, and provides a working definition that informs the rest of the book. He makes the important argument that each instance of genocide is best understood within a particular historical framework and provides an original chronology of these distinct frameworks. In the final part of the book he critically examines a number of alleged past and recent genocides: from native Americans

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.

1. 'No man's land' and the creation of partitioned histories in India/Pakistan / Pippa Virdee -- 2. Three films, one genocide : remembering the Armenian genocide through Ravished Armenia(s) / Donna-Lee Frieze -- 3. Memorial stories : commemorating the Rwanda genocide through fiction / Nicki Hitchcott -- 4. To be hunted like animals : Samuel and Joseph Chanesman remember their survival in the Polish countryside during the Holocaust / Pam Maclean -- 5. Set in stone? The intergenerational and institutional transmission of Holocaust memory / Avril Alba -- 6. National memory and museums : remembering settler colonial genocide of indigenous peoples in Canada / Tricia Logan -- 7. Memory at the site : witnessing, education and the repurposing of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek in Cambodia / Elena Lesley-Rozen -- 8. Contested notions of genocide and commemoration : the case of the herero in Namibia / Henning Melber -- 9. Burying genocide : official remembrance and reconciliation in Australia / Damien Short -- 10. Bodies of evidence : remembering the Rwandan genocide at Murambi / Nigel Eltringham.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Theoretical Foundations -- 2. Cultural Genocide and the American Indians -- 3. Russia and the Jews in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Israel and Palestinian Cultural Genocide -- 5. The Chinese Assimilation of Tibet -- 6. Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

From the atrocities of the Holocaust to the ongoing horrors in Darfur, genocide has been a gruesome and all-too-prominent fixture of modern history. There is no better way to examine and understand these events than through the accounts of those involved. This unique collection of primary sources features 50 documents, some of which have never before been made public. These firsthand accounts-diary entries, memoirs, oral testimony, original interviews, and more-illuminate 10 genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries as they were experienced by victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. The 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 preventi