Title: Genocide and political groups /
Authors: Nersessian, David L.,
Date: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xxiv, 329 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: K
Abstract: During the drafting of the Genocide Convention in 1948, a critical and controversial decision was made to exclude political groups, thereby limiting the Convention to national ethnic, racial and religious collectives. This book analyzes whether this legal dichotomy continues to make sense.
Contents: Introduction -- Defining a crime without a name -- Conduct elements -- Fault elements -- Human groups and genocide -- Political genocide and customary international law -- The role of other international crime -- The case for a crime of political genocide -- The way forward : rethinking the crime of crimes -- Concluding thoughts.
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University.
Subject headings (LCSH): Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; Genocide--Political aspects.; Genocide.; Party affiliation.