Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention

Titel: Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention / John Cooper
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Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Umfang: xii, 338 p.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9781137427373

This book is the first complete biography of Raphael Lemkin, the father of the United Nations Genocide Convention, based on his papers; and shows how his campaign for an international treaty succeeded. In addition, the book covers Lemkin's inauguration of the historical study of past genocides.