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 * 1) -Genocide is generally defined as the intentional extermination of a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group. -Compared with war crimes and crimes against humanity, genocide is generally regarded as the most offensive crime.
 * 2) -Unlike war, where the attack is general and the object is often the control of a geographical or political region, genocide attacks an individual's identity, and the object is control -- or complete elimination -- of a group of people.
 * 3) -The history of genocide in the 20th century includes:
 * 4) the 1915 genocide of Armenians by Turks;
 * 5) the attempted extermination of European Jews by Nazis during World War II;
 * 6) the widespread genocide in Cambodia during the 1970s;
 * 7) the "ethnic cleansing"[1] in Kosovo by Serbs during the 1990s;
 * 8) the killing of Tutsis by Rwandan Hutus in 1994.[2]
 * 9) -Since 1948, the United Nations has defined genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such."[3] Actions included in this definition are:
 * 10) Killing members of a group;
 * 11) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group;
 * 12) Deliberately inflicting on a group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
 * 13) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within a group;
 * 14) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
 * 15) -Notice that in the U.N. definition, murder is not the only way to destroy a group. For example, the recent Australian practice of forcibly removing biracial Aborigine children from their parents could be classified as genocide, since the goal of this practice was to assimilate the children into mainstream Australian culture, and thus slowly erode the Aborigine culture and population.[4]
 * 16)  -The [|underlying causes of conflicts] that result in acts of genocide often have deep historical roots.
 * 17) - [|Stereotypes] and prejudices can develop over centuries.
 * 18) -Ethnic and cultural distinctions often result in the formation of "in-group" and "out-group" thinking, where members of different races, religions, or cultures view each other as separate, alien, and "different."
 * 19) -Such movements find expression more readily when powerful political entities are made up of a common ethnicity and when minorities are marginalized.
 * 20) -Perpetrators of genocide often feel completely justified in their actions, and may draw on local cultural or political values to curry favor.
 * 21) -Still other groups may attempt to take a neutral, apathetic stance.
 * 22) -International law and historical precedent, however, has made it extremely dangerous for relevant parties to attempt to merely stand by. An example of such behavior was the Swiss policy of neutrality in World War II.. In the mid-1990s Swiss banks were held accountable for servicing the financial interests of Nazi party members and for failing to settle accounts with Holocaust victims or their surviving family members


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">-Preventing acts of genocide has become an important topic in peace research.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">-Preventing genocide implies understanding how genocidal motivations begin and how groups become powerful enough to impose their plans on their victims.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">- This involves the ability to recognize how ethnic and political values mesh in potentially dangerous ways and how elite organizers of genocide obtain state power. In addition to developing working theories of how genocidal acts begin and progress, prevention also necessitates the ability to detect signs of genocidal schemes and respond to them as early as possible