Autore
Lattanzi, Flavia

Titolo
The Notion of Genocide in Light of the Existing International Practice and Jurisprudence
Periodico
Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 297 - Pagina finale: 318

The need to return to the notion of genocide – on which the author already had the opportunity to briefly express herself in other occasions – is connected to the conflicting positions that still persist on it both in the "media" and among scholars. In particular, there are those who simplistically qualify genocide as the "physical destruction" of members of a community. However, this characterisation does not align with the facts of genocide, nor with the definition of the crime as set out in the Genocide Convention of 1948, nor with the interpretation of this definition provided by the most relevant international jurisprudence. The notion of genocide is, in fact, far more complex. This complexity is already evident in the first genocides of the 20th century: that of the Herero Tribe in German-colonised South West Africa from 1904 to 1908 and that of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire during World War I from 1915 to 1916.



SICI: 1720-4313(2025)2<297:TNOGIL>2.0.ZU;2-F
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.17394/117303
Testo completo alternativo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.17394/117303

Esportazione dati in Refworks (solo per utenti abilitati)

Biblioteche ACNP che possiedono il periodico