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Genocide

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Attempt, Conspiracy, And Incitement To Commit Genocide, Jens Ohlin Dec 2014

Attempt, Conspiracy, And Incitement To Commit Genocide, Jens Ohlin

Jens David Ohlin

In these brief commentaries to the U.N. Genocide Convention, I explore three criminal law modes of liability as they apply to the international crime of genocide. Part I analyzes attempt to commit genocide and uncovers a basic tension over whether attempt refers to the genocide itself (the chapeau) or the underlying offense (such as killing). Part I concludes that the tension stems from the fact that the crime of genocide itself is already inchoate in nature, since the legal requirements for the crime do not require an actual, completed genocide, in the common-sense understanding of the term, but only a …


On The Very Idea Of Transitional Justice, Jens Ohlin Dec 2014

On The Very Idea Of Transitional Justice, Jens Ohlin

Jens David Ohlin

The phrase "transitional justice" has had an amazingly successful career at an early age. Popularized as an academic concept in the early 1990s in the aftermath of apartheid's collapse in South Africa, the phrase quickly gained traction in a variety of global contexts, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, and Sierra Leone. A sizeable literature has been generated around it, so much so that one might even call it a sub-discipline with inter-disciplinary qualities. Nonetheless, the concept remains an enigma. It defines the contours of an entire field of intellectual inquiry, yet at the same time it hides more than it illuminates. …


Women As Perpetrators: Agency And Authority In Genocidal Rwanda, Mark Drumbl, Nicole Hogg Dec 2013

Women As Perpetrators: Agency And Authority In Genocidal Rwanda, Mark Drumbl, Nicole Hogg

Mark A. Drumbl

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