Description

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The United Nations and Genocide considers how the UN has met, and failed to meet, its commitment 'to prevent and punish' genocide since the 1948 Genocide Convention. Examining cases of both failure and success, it explores new UN approaches to genocide prevention, and questions whether they will be more effective.

About the Author

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Deborah Mayersen is Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong, Australia. Deborah's recent publications include On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined (2014) and (co-edited with Annie Pohlman) Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention (2013).