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Diffusing Genocide Studies, Defusing Genocides, Adam Jones
Diffusing Genocide Studies, Defusing Genocides, Adam Jones
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
In evaluating the state of the field of comparative genocide studies, this article explores themes such as the ‘‘return to Raphael Lemkin,’’ evident in some recent works; scholarly investigations of the genocidal dynamic in Western colonialism and the parallels in Nazi depredations; and ongoing efforts to ‘‘resurrect’’ little- known and forgotten genocides of the past. The growing pluralism and inter- nationalization of genocide studies is acknowledged but contrasted with certain parochial features of the field, which endure. This article concludes with observa- tions on the increasingly prominent role of genocide scholars in policy-making and humanitarian spheres.
Revisiting A Founding Assumption Of Genocide Studies, A Dirk Moses
Revisiting A Founding Assumption Of Genocide Studies, A Dirk Moses
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
Genocide studies has come a long way over the past decade, having attained a level of intellectual sobriety, academic credibility, and public recognition virtually inconceivable forty years ago. At the same time, there have been signs of convergence between the fields of genocide studies and Holocaust historiography and studies. This development can be challenging for those in Holocaust studies and historio- graphy because the relationship betweem the two disciplines is complicated by genocide studies’ claim to incorporate the Holocaust into its object of inquiry, whereas the reverse does not hold. There is a potentially subordinate situation here, or at least …
The African Standby Force, Genocide, And International Relations Theory, Stephen Burgess
The African Standby Force, Genocide, And International Relations Theory, Stephen Burgess
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
In launching the African Standby Force (ASF), African leaders over-promised to stop genocide, given their lack of political will, the weak capacity of their states, and the weak military capability of the Force’s subregional brigades. The explana- tion lies in a combination of South African idealism and determination to exert continental leadership and the desire of African leaders to sustain or increase aid to their under-resourced militaries. South Africa does not have the power or resources necessary to supply sufficient public goods to make the ASF fully func- tional and capable of fulfilling all tasks. African leaders promised to stop …
A Case Study In Underachievement: The International Courts And Genocide In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Marko Attila Hoare
A Case Study In Underachievement: The International Courts And Genocide In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Marko Attila Hoare
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
Two international courts—the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ)—have established that genocide occurred in Srebrenica in Bosnia in 1995. Germany’s courts have concluded that genocide occurred in both Northern and Eastern Bosnia in 1992, and an appeal against a conviction for genocide on this basis was dismissed by a third international court—the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Yet, there has been minimal international punishment of genocide in Bosnia. Serbia was convicted by the ICJ only of a failure to prevent and punish genocide. Only one middle-ranking individual has been …