TY - JOUR AU - Bartov, Omer PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/19 TI - MODERN GENOCIDE AND OTHER CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/modern-genocide-and-other-crimes-against-humanity SP - AB - This course explores the emergence, evolution, varieties, underlying causes, and means ofconfronting and coming to terms with genocide and other crimes against humanity in thetwentieth century. We will discuss the emergence of genocide and the subsequentconceptualization of this phenomenon; manifestations of colonial genocide; the mass murder of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire; the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and the mass murder of the handicapped and the Gypsies; instances of communist-induced genocide, with an emphasis on the case of Cambodia; and the recent genocide in Rwanda. We will then examine cases of war crimes by the Japanese and German military in World War II; mass crimes perpetrated by the Soviet regime against its own citizens; and the emergence and conceptualization of Aethnic cleansing,@ with a special emphasis on the case of the former Yugoslavia. From there we will move on to more general interpretations of the genocide and other crimes against humanity, and discuss the manner in which they can be confronted through retribution, restitution, and other instruments of justice. Finally we will examine the rise of the new global terrorism, and discuss the relationship between this type of potentially devastating violence, state-terror and crimes, and the role of the international community. ER -