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There are few parallels to the human holocaust that took place in Burundi in
1972 in the wake of a tortuous competitive struggle between the country's two
major ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. Scarcely noticed (let alone
understood) by public opinion anywhere, the killings are conservatively estimated
to have caused between 80,000 and 100,000 deaths. Approximately 3.5 percent of the
country's total population (3.5 million) were physically wiped out in a period of
a few weeks. In comparative terms this is as if England had suffered a loss of 2
million or the United States about 8 million people. To speak of "selective
genocide" in describing the outcome of such large-scale political violence seems
scarcely an exaggeration.

There are few parallels to the human holocaust that took place in Burundi in 1972 in the wake of a tortuous competitive struggle between the country's two major ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. Scarcely noticed (let alone understood) by public opinion anywhere, the killings are conservatively estimated to have caused between 80,000 and 100,000 deaths. Approximately 3.5 percent of the country's total population (3.5 million) were physically wiped out in a period of a few weeks. In comparative terms this is as if England had suffered a loss of 2 million or the United States about 8 million people. To speak of "selective genocide" in describing the outcome of such large-scale political violence seems scarcely an exaggeration.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Photographs -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Seized of Sorrow -- Part 1: History and Culture -- 1. Genocide and Global/World History: Reflections -- 2. Genocide and Holocaust -- 3. Motivations and Justifications for Genocide in the Long Nineteenth Century -- 4. Genocide and the West -- 5. Religion, Genocide, and Islamic State -- 6. The Bangladeshi Genocide in Comparative Perspective -- 7. The Rohingya: Genocide in Myanmar? -- 8. Challenges of Genocide Intervention -- 9. Chomsky and Genocide -- 10. The Great Lakes Genocides: Hidden Histories, Hidden Precedents -- 11. Denying Rwanda, Denying Congo -- Part 2: Gendering Genocide -- 12. Gender, Genocide, and Gendercide -- 13. Gendering Rwanda: Genocide and Post-Genocide -- 14. Masculinities and Vulnerabilities in the Rwandan and Congolese Genocides -- 15. Sexual Violence against Males in War and Genocide: Advances, Obstacles, Challenges -- 16. Interview by Noah Berlatsky -- 17. Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Men and Boys -- 18. Interview by Rosanna Deerchild on CBC Unreserved -- Coda: What Leads to Genocide? -- Index.

1. Never again? : from the Holocaust to the Genocide Convention -- 2. The Genocide Convention -- 3. Explaining genocide -- 4. Perpetrators, bystanders, victims and rescuers -- 5. Genocide during the Cold War -- 6. Genocide after the Cold War -- 7. Genocide and humanitarian intervention -- 8. Justice and prevention.

1. Introduction : defining genocide -- 2. Colonial genocides -- 3. The Christians of the Ottoman Empire -- 4. The holocaust -- 5. Genocide, Asia, and the Cold War -- 6. Genocide in the 1990s -- 7. South Sudan and Darfur : genocide again -- 8. Other cases : problems of classification -- 9. The dilemmas of prevention and intervention -- 10. International justice -- 11. The future.

In the wake of the passage of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the United Nations and global powers have been unable to prevent dozens of genocides. The failure to prevent these horrible acts of mass violence is now a major concern for the foreign policy team of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. American presidential recognition of genocides serves as a promising sign for a future of human rights-centered diplomacy. Scholarship concerning state violence has not adequately addressed the role of intersectionality in genocide and other identity-based massacres. The current definition of "genocide" in the Convention lacks significant protections for identity groups whose inclusion is essential to effectively prosecute crimes and eliminate political violence in the twenty-first century. Through an analysis of the underlying ideological and practical systems that support this cycle of violence, and by offering a theologically premised denunciation of genocide based upon Catholic Social Teaching and the work of David Hollenbach, S.J., this article argues for a three-part action plan to address the crisis of genocide gripping the world. This article also serves as a call to action for the Biden Administration which should continue to recognize genocides and offer support in multilateral interventions.

This paper examines both cosmopolitan and pragmatic arguments for the prosecution of genocide in international and transnational tribunals. While both approaches provide valuable insights regarding the potential for international prosecutions, they each overlook deontological arguments. The paper ends with an outline of a more strictly normative justification for genocide prosecutions.

Genocide: the basics is an engaging introduction to the study of a controversial and widely debated topic. This concise and comprehensive book explores key questions such as: how successful have efforts been in the prevention of genocide?; how prevalent has genocide been throughout history?; and how has the concept been defined? Real world case studies address significant issues including: the killing of indigenous peoples by colonial powers; the Holocaust and the question of "uniqueness"; Peacekeeping efforts in the 1990s; Legal attempts to create a genocide-free world

Noam Chomsky may justly be considered the most important public intellectual alive, and the most significant of the post-World War Two era. Despite his scholarly contributions to linguistics, at least three generations know him primarily for his political writings and activism, voicing a left-radical, humanist critique of US foreign policy and other subjects.
Given that a human-rights discourse is prominent in Chomsky's political writing, and given that genocide-related controversies have sometimes swirled around him, it is worthwhile to consider the overall place and framing of genocide in his published output. The present paper undertakes such an inquiry. It employs a broad and systematic sampling of Chomsky's published work (including online sources and interviews) to explore:
- How Chomsky understands the concept "genocide," and how this has evolved over the years;
- His skepticism towards the term and and criticisms of its political manipulation;
- Past genocide-related controversies involving Chomsky (the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia/Kosovo, Rwanda);
- Cases of mass violence that Chomsky considers genocides, "near" or "virtual" genocides, and propagandistic non-genocides;
- The place of the Holocaust and Israel in Chomsky's analysis; and
- Structural forms of genocide, especially those linked to contemporary capitalism and neoliberalism.
The attempt is to provide a critical and wide-ranging evaluation of a leading public intellectual's writing and commentary on genocide over the past half-century.

Noam Chomsky may justly be considered the most important public intellectual alive, and the most significant of the post-World War Two era. Despite his scholarly contributions to linguistics, at least three generations know him primarily for his political writings and activism, voicing a left-radical, humanist critique of US foreign policy and other subjects. Given that a human-rights discourse is prominent in Chomsky's political writing, and given that genocide-related controversies have sometimes swirled around him, it is worthwhile to consider the overall place and framing of genocide in his published output. The present paper undertakes such an inquiry. It employs a broad and systematic sampling of Chomsky's published work (including online sources and interviews) to explore: - How Chomsky understands the concept "genocide," and how this has evolved over the years; - His skepticism towards the term and and criticisms of its political manipulation; - Past genocide-related controversies involving Chomsky (the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia/Kosovo, Rwanda); - Cases of mass violence that Chomsky considers genocides, "near" or "virtual" genocides, and propagandistic non-genocides; - The place of the Holocaust and Israel in Chomsky's analysis; and - Structural forms of genocide, especially those linked to contemporary capitalism and neoliberalism. The attempt is to provide a critical and wide-ranging evaluation of a leading public intellectual's writing and commentary on genocide over the past half-century.

Noam Chomsky may justly be considered the most important public intellectual alive, and the most significant of the post-World War Two era. Despite his scholarly contributions to linguistics, at least three generations know him primarily for his political writings and activism, voicing a left-radical, humanist critique of US foreign policy and other subjects. Given that a human-rights discourse is prominent in Chomsky's political writing, and given that genocide-related controversies have sometimes swirled around him, it is worthwhile to consider the overall place and framing of genocide in his published output. The present paper undertakes such an inquiry. It employs a broad and systematic sampling of Chomsky's published work (including online sources and interviews) to explore: - How Chomsky understands the concept "genocide," and how this has evolved over the years; - His skepticism towards the term and and criticisms of its political manipulation; - Past genocide-related controversies involving Chomsky (the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia/Kosovo, Rwanda); - Cases of mass violence that Chomsky considers genocides, "near" or "virtual" genocides, and propagandistic non-genocides; - The place of the Holocaust and Israel in Chomsky's analysis; and - Structural forms of genocide, especially those linked to contemporary capitalism and neoliberalism. The attempt is to provide a critical and wide-ranging evaluation of a leading public intellectual's writing and commentary on genocide over the past half-century.

This volume offers an answer to a question that has been debated within academia since the adoption of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.1 More recently, the same question has arisen within the field of genocide studies. Martin Shaw, a professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex, fashions an answer, but it is not a likeable response. He has no real answer. Instead Shaw walks the reader through a series of definitions, opinions, and arguments that are systematically rejected in his search for an answer. Shaw compares these arguments against the backdrop of the earlier concept of genocide initially introduced by Raphael Lemkin2 and the definition given in the Genocide Convention.

The growth of scholarship on the pressing problem of genocide shows no sign of abating. This volume takes stock of Genocide Studies in all its multi-disciplinary diversity by adopting a thematic rather than case-study approach. Each chapter is by an expert in the field and comprises an up-to-date survey of emerging and established areas of enquiry while highlighting problems and making suggestions about avenues for future research. Each essay also has a select bibliography to facilitate further reading. Key themes include imperial violence and military contexts for genocide, predicting, preventing, and prosecuting genocide, gender, ideology, the state, memory, transitional justice, and ecocide. The volume also scrutinises the concept of genocide - its elasticity, limits, and problems. It does not provide a definition of genocide but rather encourages the reader to think critically about genocide as a conceptual and legal category concerned with identity-based violence against civilians.