POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pax Britannica, Pol Pot, Hutu
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Rights that we enjoy today came as a result of war and genocide. Relationship of war to other fields of activity. There is a close link between war and genocide. There is a close link between 20th century genocides, above all the holocaust, and hr are developing from ww2. Insufficient: true of police officers, settlers and bullies. Stanford encyclopedia: war is "an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities. Traditionally, political communities were defined as entities which either are states or intend to become states. Wars may target military, industrial or civilian targets (or a combination) Defeat of napoleon, destruction of french empire, establishment of council of. Russian revolution, destruction of ottoman and habsburg empires. Bolshevization of europe, decolonization in se asia, emergence of human rights norms and treaties. Separation of war from other fields of human activity is very recent. For most of european and wider wold history, war was natural reflex of sovereigns and rulers.
