genocide

(noun)

The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.

Related Terms

Examples of genocide in the following topics:

  • Genocide

    • While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations CPPCG, which specifies that genocide entails:
    • Genocide scholars such as Gregory Stanton have postulated various conditions and acts that often occur before, during, and after genocide.
    • Organization:"Genocide is always organized...
    • At this stage, a Genocide Emergency must be declared. ..."
    • Other authors have focused on the structural conditions leading up to genocide and the psychological and social processes that create an evolution toward genocide.

  • Global Crime

    • Some espouse that all organized crime operates at an international level, though there is currently no international court capable of trying offences resulting from such activities (for example, the International Criminal Court's remit extends only to dealing with people accused of offences against humanity, such as genocide ).

  • Social Definition of Race

    • Following the World War II, alongside empirical and conceptual problems with "race," evolutionary and social scientists were acutely aware of how beliefs about race had been used to justify discrimination, apartheid, slavery, and genocide.

  • The Death Penality

    • Supporters of the death penalty argue that the death penalty is morally justified when applied in murder, especially with aggravating elements, such as multiple homicide, child murder, torture murder, and mass killing including terrorism or genocide.

  • Racism

    • While not exclusively the result of racial or ethnic tension, genocide, the attempt to completely destroy a group of people based on a characteristic they share by another group of people who do not share that characteristic, is often the result of racism.
    • One technique that is often used by individuals engaged in genocide and even in war is racial epithets that dehumanize the enemy, making it easier to kill them.

  • Rape

    • It also ruled that rape was an aspect of genocide, because of the use of rape to impregnate women in order to weaken or eliminate a particular gene pool.

  • The Milgram Experiment: The Power of Authority

    • Milgram devised his psychological study to answer the question of whether the millions participating in the Holocaust actually consciously shared the intent of its genocidal goals.

  • Race

    • Racism today continues to contribute to the suffering of many people in the form of slavery, genocide, systemic oppression, and institutionalized discrimination.