The Magnitude of Genocide - eBook

9781440831614
1-4408-3161-0

Recently, the topic of intervention against genocide has received attention in global politics and the national political discourse of major countries. The challenges in confronting genocide and attempting.

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to make a positive change are manifold. Simply establishing an agreement on the legal definition of genocideand distinguishing it from genocidal massacres, war crimes, and other crimes against humanityis problematic. This book provides a valuable resource for students, scholars, and journalists when public awareness of, and interest in, genocide has reached unprecedented levels. Written in an accessible way for a broad readership, the book makes use of case studies to enable an understanding of emerging and potential genocide with the necessary depth of coverage to evaluate critically the ways in which the United Nations and national governments engage them.Readers will understand the essential ingredients of genocide, from antiquity to the present, and grasp the extent of the crime across human history. A variety of case studies provides a means to measure genocidal magnitudes in terms of their intent and motive, geographical extent, pace, method, participants, outcomes, legacies, punishments, and reparations. A unique and crucial feature of the book is that it gives as much attention to the differences among genocidesfor example, between a large-scale genocide like the Holocaust and the extermination of a 500-person Amazonian tribewhile still treating both within a single conceptual framework of genocide, without "discounting" the smaller case.