Behrens / Jensen / Terry Holocaust and Genocide Denial

A Contextual Perspective
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-20415-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 275 Seiten

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, Holocaust and Genocide Denial: A Contextual Perspective 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. Bringing together authors whose expertise relates to the history of the Holocaust, genocide studies, international criminal law and social anthropology, the book offers insights into the history of revisionism and its varying contexts, but also provides a thought-provoking engagement with the challenging questions attached to its treatment in law and politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Behrens, Paul

Jensen, Olaf

Terry, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Olaf Jensen, Paul Behrens and Nicholas Terry, Introduction Part I. Development and Concept of Genocide Denial 1. Mark Hobbs, Alexander Ratcliffe: British Holocaust denial in embryo. 2. Michael Salter, Countering Holocaust denial in relation to the Nuremberg trials 3. Nicholas Terry, Holocaust denial in the age of web 2.0: Negationist discourse since the Irving trial Part II. Holocaust and Genocide Denial Around the World 4. Elisabeth Anstett, Silence and denial in gulag testimonies: Listening for the unspeakable 5. Christian Mentel, Past's presence: on the significance of criminalizing Holocaust negation in the Federal Republic of Germany 6. Björn Elberling and Alexander Hoffmann, The prohibition of ‘glorification of National Socialism’ as an addition to the criminal provision on genocide denial 7. Sejal Parmar, Global norms on free expression and Rwanda’s Genocide Ideology Law 8. Niamh Barry, A view of the impact of Genocide denial laws in Rwanda 9. Freda Kabatsi Njugu, Confronting genocide denial: using the law as a tool in combating genocide denial in Rwanda 10. Dejana Radisavljevic, Reaching out to Bosnia: Genocide denial in Bosnia and the ICTY's efforts to address it 11. Paul Behrens, The case of Ahamdinejad: The path from denial to incitement 12. Nariné Ghazaryan, A centenary of denial: the case of the Armenian genocide Part III – Dealing with Holocaust and Genocide Denial 13. Paolo Lobba, Critical remarks on the EU Framework, Decision 2008/913/JHA on Racism and Xenophobia and the crime of denialism 14. Caroline Fournet and Clotilde Pégorier, Reflections on Genocide Denial and the Legality of its Prohibition 15. Paul Behrens, Why not the law? Options for dealing with genocide denial 16. Olaf Jensen, Paul Behrens and Nicholas Terry, Concluding Thoughts

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Olaf Jensen is an Honorary Associate Member of the Stanley Burton Centre of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester. Dr Paul Behrens is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Nicholas Terry is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of History at the University of Exeter.