‘Genocide in the 20th Century’DEFINITIONS OF GENOCIDE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PREDICTION AND PREVENTION
Several new issues have been raised by scholars and activists which bear on the prediction and prevention of genocide including the salience of the state as the perpetrator of genocide, the distinctiveness of genocide and the importance of intentionality in genocide. Genocide is primarily a crime of...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1989
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1989, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 149-160 |
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| Summary: | Several new issues have been raised by scholars and activists which bear on the prediction and prevention of genocide including the salience of the state as the perpetrator of genocide, the distinctiveness of genocide and the importance of intentionality in genocide. Genocide is primarily a crime of state and empirically it has not been true that it appears without intent. Nor is there any evidence that genocide is a continuous variable. Anticipation and prevention of genocide require a broadly based definition which emphasizes the role of the state, underscores the intent of the perpetrator and respects the crucial role that ideological motivation plays in modem genocides. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/4.2.149 |