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'This excellent book represents a substantial achievement by the editor. It shows us the deep contradictions between what we may call the 'old' genocide studies and the new approaches, which themselves face formidable challenges in developing coherent historical interpretations.' - Martin Shaw, Journal of Genocide Research Second, the book enables us to evaluate the state of genocide historiography and studies. As a whole, the volume is more comprehensive than any of the major single-authored works which have appeared in recent years it achieves its goal of providing a guide to the literature as well as to the historical record. 'Taken as a survey of existing knowledge and our attempts to understand, it provides essential reference points for scholars and guides for students. JÜRGEN ZIMMERER Lecturer in International History, University of Sheffield, UK NICOLAS WERTH Director of Research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris, France ROBERT VAN KRIEKEN Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, AustraliaĪNTON WEISS-WENDT Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities Olso, Norway IAN TALBOT Director of the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, University of Southampton, UK SCOTT STRAUS Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA SCHABAS Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, IrelandĭAN STONE Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK VICTORIA SANFORD Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA DIRK MOSES Lecturer in History, University of Sydney, AustraliaĭAVID MOSHMAN Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska, USA JEAN-LOUIS MARGOLIN Senior Lecturer in History, University of Provence in Aix-en-Provence, FranceĪ. KOPERSKI Humanities Researcher and Postgraduate student, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Whitney Griswold Professor of History and Professor of International and Area Studies at Yale University, USA HITCHCOCK Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USAĪDAM JONES Visiting Fellow, Yale Genocide Studies Program, USAīEN KIERNAN A. HAYDEN Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public& International Affairs and Director of the Center for Russian& East European Studies at, University of Pittsburgh, USA JOHN DOCKER Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, AustraliaįATMA MÜGE GÖÇEK Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

VEENA DAS Kriger-Eisenhower Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, USA CAVE Professor of History, University of Toledo, USAĪNN CURTHOYS Manning Clark Professor of History, Australian National University, Australia BERGEN Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto, CanadaĭONALD BLOXHAM Reader in History, University of Edinburgh, UKĪLFRED A. The final part of the paper offers a few general reflections on post-Cold War developments aimed at eradicating genocide and other international crimes.TONY BARTA Research Associate, La Trobe University, AustraliaĭORIS L. It then looks at the definition that was eventually adopted, including the issues surrounding acts of genocide, protected groups and the requisite intent to prove genocide, and argues that political considerations have shorn the Convention of some important elements. This article examines the backdrop against which the Convention was adopted, including the reasons explaining why genocide developed as a separate crime. As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of this venerable instrument, time is ripe for an assessment of the Convention, in particular the extent to which recent international developments have curbed genocide and other related acts. Its renaissance in the 1990s owes much to the thaw in East-West relations and the emergence of international criminal law and institutions in the aftermath of the events in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. A symbolic response to the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi regime during World War II, the Convention quickly succumbed to the politics of the Cold War. On 9 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.