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Globalization and Genocide

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

Introduction

Broadly defined as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, genocide had been an instrument of “purifying” territories by eliminating unwanted groups for much of the twentieth and continuing into the twenty-first century.

As defined in Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide issued in 1948, genocide refers to any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, by:

  1. (a)

    Killing members of the group

  2. (b)

    Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

  3. (c)

    Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part

  4. (d)

    Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

  5. (e)

    Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group (United Nations General Assembly 1948).

Although many...

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Halilovich, H. (2018). Globalization and Genocide. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20928-9_1304

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