Screen LibraryHolocaust and genocide denial : a contextual perspective /
This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of their existence. Denial poses challenges to more t...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of their existence. Denial poses challenges to more than one academic discipline: to historians, the gradual disappearance of the generation of eyewitnesses raises the question of how to keep alive the memory of the events, and the fact that negationism is often offered in the guise of historical 'revisionist scholarship' also means that there is need for the identification of parameters which can be applied to the office of the 'genuine' historian. Legal academics and practitioners as well as political scientists are faced with the difficulty of evaluating methods to deal with denial and must in this regard identify the limits of freedom of speech, but also the need to preserve the rights of victims. Beyond that, the question arises whether the law can ever be an effective option for dealing with revisionist statements and the revisionist movement. In this regard, this book breaks new ground: exploring the background of revisionism, the specific methods devised by individual States to counter this phenomenon, and the rationale for their strategies. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 263 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138672734 1138672734 |
| Index Number: | KZ7180 |
| CLC: | D995 |
| Call Number: | D995/H754 |
| Contents: |
Alexander Ratcliffe : British holocaust denial in embryo / Countering Holocaust denial in relation to the Nuremberg trials / Holocaust denial in the age of web 2.0 : negationist discourse since the Irving-Lipstadt trial / Silence and denial in gulag testimonies : listening for the unspeakable / Presence of the past : on the significance of the Holocaust and the criminalisation of its negation in the federal Republic of Germany / Prohibition of glorification of national socialism as an addition to the criminal provision on genocide denial (Sect. 130 (4) of the German Criminal Code) / Reckoning with the past : Rwanda's revised genocide ideology law and international human rights law on freedom of expression / View of the impact of genocide denial laws in Rwanda / Confronting genocide denial : using the law as a tool in combating genocide denial in Rwanda / Srebrenica and genocide denial in the former Yugoslavia : what has the ICTY done to address it? / Holocaust denial in Iran : Ahmadinejad, the 2006 Holocaust conference and international law / Centenary of denial : the case of the Armenian genocide / From introduction to implementation : first steps of the EU framework decision 2008/913/JHA against racism and xenophobia / Combating genocide denial via law : État des lieux of anti-denial legislation / Why not the law? options for dealing with genocide and Holocaust denial / |