The Inventor of the Concept of Genocide, and his Encounter with Colonialism

Raphael Lemkin was a Polish-Jewish jurist who coined the term “genocide“ in 1944. Today, he is widely regarded as the intellectual architect of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. However, research conducted over the past two decades has demonstrated that Lemkin was not merely a legal scholar concerned with … Continue reading The Inventor of the Concept of Genocide, and his Encounter with Colonialism