CAS IR 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Raphael Lemkin, Genocide Convention, Nuremberg Trials
11 Aug 2018
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Applying the genocide convention in rwanda and darfur. Testing universalism: hr was originally drafted in western context, a project of liberal democracy promote this political system, would be able to debate hr if it was explicitly equated with political democracy. Putting democracy as only and best option: hr documents don"t take economic rights very seriously. Capitalism itself is very unequal: hr does not talk about social/economic inequality enough, hr are state by state, but globalization crosses borders and is not subject to hr rules. Donnelly"s basis for claiming universality of human rights: overlapping consensus, developed because of: If any human rights principle should be universal, it should be opposition to genocide. Genocide convention: at the gravest crime against humanity and most serious human rights abuse, opposition to genocide should be most likely to be universal. In this book, samantha power provides excellent history of genocide, with focus on us policy: project of one individual: raphael lemkin.
