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The Importance of Genocide Recognition
Geoffrey Robertson
Geoffrey Robertson examines the role of the Armenian Genocide in the development of genocide studies

The Importance of Genocide Recognition
Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson explains what constitutes genocide as a legal concept, how this legal definition applies to the case of the Armenians in 1915 and how the Armenian Genocide, the first genocide of the 20th century, was critical in the development of genocide studies and the drafting of the UN Genocide Convention of 1948 by Raphael Lemkin.
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Beginning with the Hamidian massacres and throughout the Armenian Genocide, Ottoman author ... [more]
Over the course of the eleven years during which they lived and worked in Istanbul, journa ... [more]
Dr. Israel W. Charny tells the story of how he became a “devoted student of the deni ... [more]
Under the guise of the terrible brutalities of World War I, over a million Armenians, Assy ... [more]
Journalists and authors, Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier remember the Turkish-Armenia ... [more]
In January 2015, attorneys Geoffrey Robertson and Amal Alamuddin Clooney represented Armen ... [more]
Dr. Bernard Coulie reviews the progression of Belgian government’s official recognit ... [more]
While the Armenians were the primary target of the 1915 Genocide perpetrated by the Young ... [more]
Journalists and authors Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier consider how the persistent d ... [more]