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From:Georgetown Journal of International Law (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThrough violence and threats, oppressive regimes and militant groups around the world have forced people to abandon their religious beliefs and adopt new ones. To survive, many give into this coercion and convert to...
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From:Washington University Global Studies Law Review (Vol. 21, Issue 1)FOREWORD Since early in her career as an international legal scholar, Leila Sadat has been studying crimes against humanity. In the 1980s and 90s, she introduced English-language academic literature to the French...
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From:Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOn December 21, 2007, the Genocide Accountability Act of 2007 (GAA) became law, allowing the United States to exercise universal jurisdiction in cases of genocide. The long delays in the U.S. ratification of the...
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From:World Policy Journal (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedParis 1919: Six Months That Changed the World Margaret Macmillan New York: Random House, 2001 "A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power New York: Basic Books, 2002 Toward a Just World:...
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From:Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article discusses the contextual embedding of genocide in the case law of the ad hoc tribunals and the International Criminal Court. In particular, it seeks to clarify to what extent the courts require that an...
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From:Georgetown Journal of International Law (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince the end of World War II, the international community has vowed to "never again" sit back while genocide unfolds. Nevertheless, the international community has struggled to respond to humanitarian conflict and...
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From:Journal of Literary Studies (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSummary Historical films on Africa are few and far between when viewed against the backdrop of many social upheavals that plague the continent. One such film is Hotel Rwanda, based on the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The...
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From:Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (Vol. 40, Issue 1-2) Peer-Reviewed
Exploring critical issues in religious genocide: case studies of violence in Tibet, Iraq and Gujarat
I. INTRODUCTION This article was prepared for a symposium organized by the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law entitled "To Prevent and Punish: A Conference... -
From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 98, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJurists at the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda have erroneously determined that "complicity in genocide" is identical to "aiding and abetting" genocide. Accordingly, they theorize that...
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From:Reference & User Services Quarterly (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMontreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. http://migs.concordia.ca. Reviewed Apr. 28, 2010. The institute has gathered a broad collection of links to other collections and websites detailing cases of...
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From:Georgetown Journal of International Law (Vol. 51, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFollowing World War II, the international community acknowledged its obligation to both prevent and punish genocide. It accomplished the latter through the establishment of courts and tribunals with the authority to...
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From:Houston Journal of International Law (Vol. 34, Issue 1)I. INTRODUCTION Crimes against humanity, including genocide, were committed on a vast scale in Rwanda in 1994 and have led to prosecutions within Rwanda and in an International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)...
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From:McGill Law Journal (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe author outlines the steps leading to the Rwandan genocide, tracing the importance of hate speech, disseminated in print and by radio, in preparing Rwanda's "willing executioners". Action ought to have been taken...
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From:ABA Journal (Vol. 95, Issue 10)WHEN THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY held a world summit in 2005, one of its most notable actions was to set forth the doctrine that states have an obligation to protect their citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic...
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From:Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND TO THE CASE On 26 February 2007, one of the longest running and most tortuous pieces of litigation in the history of the International Court of Justice came to a close when a decision on...
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From:Ethnic Studies Review (Vol. 36-2, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
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From:Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedD. "In Whole or In Part" Article 6(a)(3) of the Elements of Crime requires intent to destroy "in whole or in part" the protected group. (207) As U.N. Secretary Kofi Anan pointed out, "genocide begins with the killing...
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From:Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (Vol. 40, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn his remarks at the September 28, 2007 symposium commemorating the adoption of the Genocide Convention, held at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, former war crimes prosecutor Henry T. King, Jr. described...
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From:Duke Law Journal (Vol. 54, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedProfessors Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks's "How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law" (1) achieves the rare trifecta of solid academic scholarship. Their work is first, exceedingly...
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From:Georgetown Journal of International Law (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION Despite the development of positive, explicit and clearly applicable international law, including the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention),...