Publication

This paper provides an overview of the seven stages of genocide. The author discusses the general definitions of genocide as established by the International Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and explains how those definitions are sometimes misinterpreted. The paper argues that genocide must be considered not just as an effort to destroy a whole national, ethnical, racial or relgious group, but also any systematic effort to simply destroy individual parts of such groups. The author states that the most effective way to counter genocide and its different criminal stages remains justice.