The International Association of Genocide Scholars is an international organization with a self-described mission to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocid
IAGS visitors at the Olimpo Detention and Torture Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2011
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Genocide is the partial or total destruction of a human group, committed intentionally. The popular view conceives of genocide as the large-scale killing of individuals, but in scholarly and legal fie
International Association of Genocide Scholars
…IAGS) is an international organization with a self-described mission to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide. The IAGS also advances policy studies on the prevention of genocide. The official peer-reviewed academic journal of the association is called Genocide…
The Holocaust heavily influences the popular understanding of genocide, as mass killing of innocent people based on their ethnic identity.
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia was described as such in 1945 by Raphael Lemkin and at the Nuremberg trials, and largely matches the definition of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The expulsion of Germans was one of the instances of state violence that was deliberately written out of the legal definition of genocide.
Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice