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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 Challenging outdated beliefs and conventions that continue to influence our understanding, Genocide constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on mass violence.[-]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"--

"Genocide" published on by Oxford University Press.

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

Genocidal tendencies that exist today are due to the embrace of realpolitik and the glorification of the state. Unrestrained nationalism can only lead to mass killing with conviction and pure heart. Genocide is the commission of specific acts with intent to destroy, wholly o r in part, a national ethnic, racial o r religious group. There are many cases of genocide today which the U.S. ignores because it makes anti‐Sovietism the centerpiece of I t s foreign policy. International law is not enough to prevent genocide. Natural law and the judgements at Nuremberg as well are not sufficient. The problem is one of individuals who must reduce their loyalty to the state as the dominant imperative of political life. Only then will realpolitik be controlled.

In his chapter, Adam Jones addresses genocide as multi-dimensional crime. He describes two broad typologies of genocide – 'gendercide', and 'root and branch genocide', which are 'distinguished by the different operations of the gender variable in each'. As Jones outlines, the Rwanda genocide evidenced broad range of gendered aspects – from leveraging ethnicized gender tropes, through the sometime employment of gender-based genocidal approaches (execution, rape), to the economic and social consequences (planned or not) that are the legacy of gendered genocide. 'The "gendering" of a given genocide', he concludes, 'therefore encompasses the cultural configurations that influence the mobilisation of perpetrators and the targeting of victims, as well as the sexed bodies that are damaged or destroyed in genocidal campaigns'.

When in 1976 Raymond williams published his famous book, Keywords, Genocide was not among the discussed terms. Neither was Holocaust nor human rights, though he did include an entry on 'humanity'. The subtitle indicated his remit: 'A Vocabulary of Culture and Society'. A Marxist charting the transformations of western societies wrought by capitalism, Williams was interested in the historical semantics of words like class and art, industry and democracy that registered the unfolding and effects of European modernity. His book was, accordingly, not only Eurocentric, but western Eurocentric, reflecting the experience of that part of the world over the last two centuries. The fact that Williams, born in 1921 and a veteran of the Second World War, did not include the words that many today regard as central for articulating our experience—words which come out of that war—points not only to the rapid transitions in keyword shelf life but also to the particularity of experience.