“[G]enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
The resources below discuss genocide as a broad concept. For specific genocides, use the Search the Library link below or see our Armenian Genocide, Genocide of Indigenous Peoples, or Rwandan Genocide Research Guides.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Books
Alexander Laban Hinton – Hidden genocides: power, knowledge, memory
Alexander Mikaberidze – Atrocities, massacres, and war crimes: an encyclopedia
Kristen Renwick Monroe – Ethics in an age of terror and genocide: identity and moral choice
Jacques Sémelin – Resisting Genocide: The Multiple Forms of Rescue
Dinah Shelton – Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Leshu Torchin – Creating the witness: documenting genocide on film, video, and the Internet
James Waller – Confronting evil: engaging our responsibility to prevent genocide
Atrocities
Crimes against humanity
Genocide
Genocide — History
Genocide — Moral and ethical aspects
Genocide — Prevention
Genocide in mass media
Massacres
War Crimes
