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Genocide, State Crime and the Law - In the Name of the State (Hardcover)
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Genocide, State Crime and the Law - In the Name of the State (Hardcover)
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Genocide, State Crime and the Law critically explores the use and
role of law in the perpetration, redress and prevention of mass
harm by the state. In this broad ranging book, Jennifer Balint
charts the place of law in the perpetration of genocide and other
crimes of the state together with its role in redress and in the
process of reconstruction and reconciliation, considering law in
its social and political context. The book argues for a new
approach to these crimes perpetrated 'in the name of the state' -
that we understand them as crimes against humanity with particular
institutional dimensions that law must address to be effective in
accountability and as a basis for restoration. Focusing on seven
instances of state crime - the genocide of the Armenians by the
Ottoman state, the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the
Khmer Rouge, apartheid South Africa, Ethiopia under Mengistu and
the Dergue, the genocide in Rwanda, and the conflict in the former
Yugoslavia - and drawing on others, the book shows how law is
companion and collaborator in these acts of nation-building by the
state, and the limits and potentials of law's constitutive role in
post-conflict reconstruction. It considers how law can be a partner
in destruction yet also provide a space for justice. An important,
and indeed vital, contribution to the growing interest and
literature in the area of genocide and post-conflict studies,
Genocide, State Crime and the Law will be of considerable value to
those concerned with law's ability to be a force for good in the
wake of harm and atrocity.
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