POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tony Judt, Genocide Convention, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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Argument: war = precondition to genocide - close link between 20th century genocides and human rights frameworks emerging after wwii. Tony judt: racism, anti-semitism or islamophobia displacement, atrocity, and genocide - it"s war. Definition: an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities: doesn"t include daesh or al qaeda. Separating war from other human activities is recent - in history, war was a natural reflex of sovereigns, merchants, and propertyless people. 16-17 century: civilian experience was defined by war and butchery (used for politics, religion and commerce: religion has always been a powerful motivation for war (protestants v catholics (thirty. 20th century concept - invented by raphael lemkin (polish jurist: his efforts led to the 1948 convention on the prevention and punishment of the. Problem: definition doesn"t include political groups or other" groups: political groups (ussr): destruction of the kulaks = 3 million deported, many died with the.
