This book defines genocide, distinguishing it from mass murder, war
crimes, and other atrocities; allows readers to grasp the magnitude
of the crime of genocide across time and throughout human
civilization; and facilitates an understanding of new and potential
cases of genocide as they occur. 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 to make a
positive change are manifold. Simply establishing an agreement on
the legal definition of genocide—and distinguishing it from
genocidal massacres, war crimes, and other crimes against
humanity—is 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 genocides—for example, between
a large-scale genocide like the Holocaust and the extermination of
a 500-person Amazonian tribe—while still treating both within a
single conceptual framework of genocide, without "discounting" the
smaller case.
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