Calling Genocide by Its Rightful Name: Lemkin' s Word, Darfur, and the UN Report

written by David Luban, fl. 1988, Georgetown University. Law Center (2006),
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Abstract / Summary: We tend to be dismissive about debates over word-meaning. That's just semantics is a brusque dismissal in educated circles. Yet words matter. The word genocide was coined by a polyglot lawyer named Raphael Lemkin nearly sixty years ago. Lemkin understood that without a memorable word he could never draw the worlds attention to the uncanny crime that was his life's obsession. His ear for linguistics was impeccable.
Field of Interest: Global Issues
Author: David Luban, fl. 1988
Corporate Author: Georgetown University. Law Center
Content Type: Periodical article
Format: Related Web resources
URL: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1909&context=facpub
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: Global Issues, Social Sciences, Individual and Groups Rights, Darfur Conflict (2003 -- ), Genocide, Darfur Conflict, Sudan, 2003-, Law, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos