Confronting genocide

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Never again' stands as one the central pledges of the international community following the end of the Second World War, upon full realization of the massive scale of the Nazi extermination programme. Genocide stands as an intolerable assault on a sense of common humanity embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other fundamental international instruments, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the United Nations Charter. And yet,…

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Full title :Confronting genocide / edited by René Provost and Payam Akhavan.

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Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Dordrecht
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

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Description:1 online resource (xx, 374 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789048198405, 9048198402
DOI:10.1007/978-90-481-9840-5.
oclc:ocn695393261
LC Classification:K5302
Dewey Decimal:201.76

Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; About the Contributors; 1 Moving From Repression to Prevention of Genocide; Part I Reconceptualizing Genocide; 2 From Irish Famine to Congo Reform: Nineteenth-Century Roots of International Human Rights Law and Activism; 3 Darfur: Genocidal Theory and Practical Atrocities; 4 Sovereignty as Responsibility for the Prevention of Genocide; 5 Citizenship, National Identity, and Genocide; 6 Incitement, Prevention and Media Rights; Part II Un/Prevented Genocide; 7 Some Problems of Genocide Prevention.