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Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
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Genocide can be define d as a complex process of systematic persecution and annihi- lation of a group of people by a government. In the twentieth century, approximately 40 to 60 million defenseless people became victims of deliberate genocidal policies. The t wenty-fir st century did not begin much bett er, with genocidal episodes going on in Darfur and the Congo. We can speak of genocide when individuals are perse- cuted and murdered merely on the basis of their presumed or imputed membership in a group rather than on their individual characteristics or participation in certain acts. Although it makes little s ense to define g enocide by a specific n umber of victims affe cted by it, we can state that a genocidal process always concerns a society at large and that genocide destroys a significa nt and oft en critical part of the affe cted community. It can be argued that genocidal processes are particularly malicious and destructive because they are directed against all members of a...
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This issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention, titled “Global Approaches to Atrocity Prevention: Theory, Practice, and the State of the Field,” presents a critical overview of the current state of Atrocity Prevention around the world. The issue was conceived of in mid-2016 by Douglas Irvin- Erickson and James P. Finkel, with the hope of responding to two immediate needs in scholarship and practice. First, we felt, scholars can always bene t from the perspectives of practitioners, o cials, and others with experience working in various bureaucracies—while practitioners and policy makers could bene t from scholarship that helps them critically reflect on their work. Secondly, very li le research was being conducted on the sudden outburst of energy around the world (over the past ve years) to create national-level government, governmental, and civil-society institutions (with clear institutional connections to governments) dedicated to the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities.
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Genocide Studies and Prevention, 2021
On the one hand, access to other cases, such as the persecution of various groups in the People's Republic of China, is severely limited; and on the other, state organs exert extreme control over and pressure on those affected and their families. At the same time, there is often a lack of contacts and the necessary language skills. Compounding this challenge is that there is virtually no access to state documents and sources. Consequently, there is a dramatic lack of academic publications on, for example, China's genocidal policies. GSP has published exactly one article on this topic in the last seven years since CG became Editor-in-Chief. Fortunately, there are a 1 number of individuals and institutions that examine such cases and provide information about their dynamics in newspapers, blogs, or in the form of reports. With regards to violence in the Uyghur territories, for example, a report has been available since March 2021. 2
Genocide Prevention in the Modern Setting: Theory Versus Practice
2011
'…I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists, and therefore I know there is a God. Peux ce que veux. Allons-y' (Dallaire, 2004: xviii). Genocide is perhaps the most extreme and destructive crime against humanity, however, the international response to incidents of this nature has frequently lacked political will or commitment, either financially or through military interventions. A commonality in the lack of genocide intervention by individual states is the absence of gainful resources such as oil, gold and diamonds in the country of conflict, or through the description of such events as 'civil wars'. A further problem encountered with the intervention of genocide is its legal classification, the limited meaning of which has consequently resulted in governments failing to respond whilst attempting to determine the correct 'terminology', with the recent conflicts in Darfur being a key example of this problem (Quayle, 2005). This thesis, therefore, attempts to determine whether genocide can be actively prevented through a discussion of the potential causal factors of genocide, and a critical evaluation of whether existing responses to genocide are both appropriate and effective. This dissertation is dedicated to all those who lost their lives to genocide and to those still living with the painful memories left behind. I sincerely hope that 'Never Again' will, one day, be more than an empty slogan.