genocide

The Concept of Genocide: Definition, Debate and Application

Few terms carry the weight of genocide. It names what is widely regarded as the gravest crime in international law, and its application to a set of events changes how those events are understood, remembered and acted upon. That weight is also the source of persistent difficulty: a term that determines legal liability, shapes political...

How to End a Genocide

One of the most prominent and undoubtedly the most imminent issue on the international agenda is the genocide on Uygur Turks in East Turkestan – a province in China that is also, though less commonly, known under the name Xinjiang. At first, the Chinese government imposed strong restrictions on Uygurs, increasingly denying them to freely...