ISS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nuremberg Trials, Centrality, Raphael Lemkin

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

Document Summary

Cases over time: destruction of carthage (2nd century bc, mongol empire (12th-13th century, conquest of the americas (16th century, holocaust (20th century) Inventing the term genocide: the emergence of genocide studies, the u(cid:374)ited natio(cid:374)"s co(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374) o(cid:374) ge(cid:374)ocide (cid:894)1(cid:1013)4(cid:1012)(cid:895) Genocide as a crime: brief chronology: (cid:862)a cri(cid:373)e (cid:449)ithout a (cid:374)a(cid:373)e(cid:863) winston churchill, raphael lemkin coins the word genocide (1944, the un adopts the genocide convention (1948, first time someone was accused and convicted of genocide (1998) Armenian genocide (1915-1916: the organized destruction of a christian minority in the ottoman empire, ar(cid:373)e(cid:374)ia(cid:374)"s suffered the (cid:373)ost of this. It is about making it impossible for national groups to live as national groups: the definition keeps expanding to include more and more acts. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group: forcibly transferring children of the group to another group, not one person has to be killed for it to be considered genocide.