ISS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Democide, Gendercide, Defenseless

• School: MSU
• Department: Integrative Studies Social Sci
• Course: ISS 210
• Professor: R.Steinberg

Document Summary

Definitions of genocide: the un definition of genocide, difficulties in defining genocide, scholarly definitions of genocide. Last lecture: 1944: the concept of genocide is coined by lemkin, 1948: the un adopts the convention of the prevention and punishment of the crime of. Genocide: 1998: the first time someone actually stands for trial for genocide, william l. patterson accused the american government of perpetrating genocide against the black people, lynching, segregation, economic genocide. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group: forcibly transferring children of the group to another group, there is a build in tension between legal concept and historical phenomenon, history leaves room for doubt. Intent: specific intent direct connection between the act and the consequence, general intent. Scholarly definition of genocide: (cid:862)ge(cid:374)o(cid:272)ide is a for(cid:373) of o(cid:374)e-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group a(cid:374)d (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ership i(cid:374) it are defi(cid:374)e (cid:271)y the perpetrator(cid:863)