RAFAŁ LEMKIN A HERO OF HUMANKIND BIEŃCZYK-MISSALA A. DĘBSKI S. EDITORS Księgarnia

Rafał Lemkin

A Hero of Humankind

Preface by Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala and Sławomir Dębski

I. Keynote Speech at the Lemkin Conference (Warsaw, 18-19 September 2008)

Adam Daniel Rotfeld
The Lemkin Concept of Genocide: A New Definition for an Old Crime

II. Rafał Lemkin's Life and Heritage

Ryszard Szawłowski
Raphael Lemkin's Life Journey: From Creative Legal Scholar and Well-to-do Lawyer in Warsaw until 1939 to Pinnacle of International Achievements during the 1940s in the States, Ending Penniless Crusader in New York in the 1950s

Marek Kornat
Rafał Lemkin's Formative Years and the Beginning of International Career in Inter-war Poland (1918-1939)

William Korey
Lemkin's Passion: Origin and Fulfillment

III. Rafał Lemkin's Ideas of Humanization of International Relations

Jean-Louis Panné
Raphael Lemkin and Raul Hilberg: About a Concept

Stéphane Courtois
Raphael Lemkin and the Question of Genocide under Communist Regimes

Steven Leonard Jacobs
The Human, the Humane, and the Humanitarian: Their Implications and Consequences in Raphael Lemkin's Work on Genocide

IV. Genocide in the Historical Perspective

Claudia Kraft
Raphael Lemkin and the Debates about the Genocide Convention in Early Post-war Germany

Anton Weiss-Wendt
The Soviet Union and the Genocide Convention: An Exercise in Cold War Politics

Samuel Totten
The United States' Recalcitrance to Ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Roman Serbyn
Holodomor: The Ukrainian Genocide

V. Heritage of Rafał Lemkin's Concept of Genocide in International Law and Contemporary Conflicts

William A. Schabas
Raphael Lemkin, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

Daphna Shraga
The Security Council and the Obligation to Prevent and Punish Genocide

Zdzisław Kędzia
The Responsibility to Protect: Political Strength versus Legal Fragility

Blaise Misztal
Protect, but from What? Genocide as a Concept of Moral and Legal Universalism

Personal Index

319 pages, Hardcover

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