The politicization of the genocide crime: the role of national interests in the response of the Armenian, Nazi, Rwandan and Rohingya genocides

Muntané Giménez, Ariadna

The politicization of the genocide crime: the role of national interests in the response of the Armenian, Nazi, Rwandan and Rohingya genocides

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Muntané Giménez, A. The politicization of the genocide crime: the role of national interests in the response of the Armenian, Nazi, Rwandan and Rohingya genocides. 2023. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57519

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Abstract

In 1948 the UN General Assembly approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide under the promise that events such as the Holocaust would never happen again. Seventy-five years later, the world has observed how this promise has not been fulfilled and new atrocities have been committed. This dissertation analyzes through an extensive literary review the bargaining process on the creation of the mentioned Convention as well as the role that national aspirations and goals play on the response to genocide, specifically in the Armenian, Nazi, Rwandan and Rohingya genocides. Findings show that the 1948 Genocide Convention is the result of highly politized discussions that resulted in an ambiguous legal tool that left the perfect space for states to response conditioned by their national interests.