Political Science 3201F/G Chapter Notes -Human Security, Maternal Death, Humanitarian Intervention
1 May 2013
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In similar fashion, genocide scholars seek not just to understand genocide but to suppress it and if possible banish it from human affairs. Both genocide studies and feminist ir therefore seek to establish normatively grounded prohibition regimes in the domestic and international practice of states and peoples. Lemkin referred to the destruction of a collectivity in a wider, social civilizational context. Not only murdering members of groups, but also destroying their cultural foundations and scattering their populations far and wide, could qualify as genocide. Genocide became a crime under international law. That the subject can be approached from both a historical direction, reflecting the twin underpinnings empirical and normative of both genocide studies and feminist international relations. The definition should, include a sexual group. Until relatively recently, explorations of gender and mass conflict , including genocide, focused overwhelmingly on the component of anti-female victimization and discrimination. Rape and sexual assault were foundational themes of second wave feminism.
