THE HISTORY OF GENOCIDE

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Open only to Genocide Prevention Certificate Students. Cross-listed as MAHG 5001. This course will look at genocide and genocidal events from ancient times to the present. While we cannot investigate every instance of genocide and/or mass atrocity, we shall explore a number of instances in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Our examination will begin with a study of some of the deliberate, systematic measures toward the extermination of racial, political or cultural groups before the term "genocide" was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin, and it will continue through to the present. We shall also explore the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.