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Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. [a] [1] [dubious – discuss] Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by means such as "the disintegration of [its] political and social institutions, of [its] culture, language, national ...
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...
Part of a series on Genocide Issues List of genocides Genocides in history Before WWI WWI–WWII 1946–1999 21st century Effects on youth Denial Massacre Rape Incitement In relation to Colonialism / War Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders Prevention Psychology Recognition politics Risk factors Stages Types Anti-Indigenous Cultural Paper Utilitarian Studies Outline Bibliography Related ...
Part of a series on Genocide Issues List of genocides Genocides in history Before WWI WWI–WWII 1946–1999 21st century Effects on youth Denial Massacre Rape Incitement In relation to Colonialism / War Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders Prevention Psychology Recognition politics Risk factors Stages Types Anti-Indigenous Cultural Paper Utilitarian Studies Outline Bibliography Related ...
Classicide was first used by Schwarz in his 1972 book The Three Faces of Revolution. [3] It was later used by Mann as a well-defined term. [6] Since then, classicide has been used by some sociologists, such as Mann [1] and Martin Shaw, [2] to describe the unique forms of genocide which pertain to the annihilation of a class through murder or displacement and the destruction of the bourgeoisie ...
The Stanton paper was presented at the State Department in 1996, shortly after the Rwanda genocide, but it also analyzes the processes in the Holocaust, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, and other genocides. The preventive measures suggested are those that the United States, national governments, and U.N. could implement or influence other governments to ...
A common example of a paper genocide is that of the Taíno, an indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. [3] Following the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Taíno population began to significantly decline in the ensuing years, primarily due to virgin soil epidemics and the enslavement and harsh treatment of the Taíno by Spanish colonizers in such labor-intensive fields as gold ...
Genocide studies is an academic field of study that researches genocide.Genocide became a field of study in the mid-1940s, with the work of Raphael Lemkin, who coined genocide and started genocide research, and its primary subjects were the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust; [1] the Holocaust was the primary subject matter of genocide studies, starting off as a side field of Holocaust ...