Confronting Genocide
“Never again” stands as one the central pledges of the international community following the end of the Second World War, upon full realization of the massive scale of the Nazi extermination programme. Genocide stands as an intolerable assault on a sense
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IUS GENTIUM COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON LAW AND JUSTICE VOLUME 7
Series Editor Mortimer Sellers (University of Baltimore) James Maxeiner (University of Baltimore)
Board of Editors Myroslava Antonovych (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) Nadia de Araujo (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) ´ Jasna Bakšic-Mufti c´ (University of Sarajevo) David L. Carey Miller (University of Aberdeen) Loussia P. Musse Felix (University of Brasília) Emanuel Gross (University of Haifa) James E. Hickey Jr. (Hofstra University) Jan Klabbers (University of Helsinki) Claudia Lima Marques (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Aniceto Masferrer (University of Valencia) Eric Millard (Paris-Sud University) Gabriël Moens (Murdoch University, Australia) Raul C. Pangalangan (The University of the Philippines) Ricardo Leite Pinto (Lusíada University of Lisbon) Mizanur Rahman (University of Dhaka) Keita Sato (Chuo University) Poonam Saxena (University of New Delhi) Gerry Simpson (London School of Economics) Eduard Somers (University of Ghent) Xinqiang Sun (Shandong University) Tadeusz Tomaszewski (University of Warsaw) Jaap W. de Zwaan (Netherlands Inst. of Intrntl. Relations, Clingendael)
CONFRONTING GENOCIDE
Edited by RENÉ PROVOST and PAYAM AKHAVAN
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Editors René Provost McGill University Faculty of Law Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism Peel Street 3644 H3A 1W9 Montreal Québec Canada [email protected]
Payam Akhavan McGill University Faculty of Law Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism Peel Street 3644 H3A 1W9 Montreal Québec Canada [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-9839-9 e-ISBN 978-90-481-9840-5 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9840-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010937279 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to anyone who takes a step, however small it may be, to try to prevent genocide.
Acknowledgements
This book is devoted to exploring this new approach to an age-old problem. The essays were written in the wake of the remarkably diverse and original presentations delivered at the Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide held at McGill University in Montreal. This was a unique gathering devoted to the idea that intelligent foresight and moral commitment to take timely action has the potential to stop the deluge before millions are drowned. The Conference brought together hundreds of exceptional participants, including genocide survivors, Nobel prize laureates, Pulitzer prize winners, acclaimed scholars and authors, illu
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