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When the Genocide Convention was passed by the United Nations in 1948, the world said, "Never again." But the history of the twentieth century instead proved that "never again" became "again and again." The promise the United Nations made was broken, as again and again, genocides and other forms of mass murder killed more than all the international wars of the twentieth century combined.

Chart: Genocides, Politicides, and Mass Murder Since 1945, Current and Potential, with Stages in 2006.

What is Genocide? A short analysis of the Genocide Convention

Photo from Yad Vashem photo archives

In 2004 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan created the position of Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and appointed human rights lawyer and advocate Juan E. Méndez to the position. (more information)

Genocide Watch Director Dr. Gregory Stanton has developed a model for analyzing the progression of genocide and other forms of mass killing, called the 8 Stages of Genocide.

Assessing Risks of Genocide and Politicide by Barbara Harff

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Indicators of Massive and Systematic Patterns of Racial Discrimination

Additional Articles on Genocide

Dump the “Ethnic Cleansing” Jargon, Group Implores, 31 May 2007

Redefining Genocide by Kok-Thay Eng

International Intervention and the Severity of Genocides and Politicides by Matthew Krain, International Studies Quarterly, September 2005

The World Was Silent by Sarah Cohen, Teaching Tolerance, Fall 2002

Bamboozling the U.S. Public About the I.C.C. by Professor Benjamin Ferencz, former Nuremberg Prosecutor

A Kurdish View for Peace by Asad Gozeh

Holocaust and Genocide in the Wake of the Twin Towers by Professor Yehuda Bauer, Aegis Conference, Nottingham, England, January 2002

Group Classification on National ID Cards as a Factor in Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing by James Fussell, Education Director, Prevent Genocide Internationl, presented to the Yale Genocide Studies Program, November 2001

The Responsibility to Protect Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty 2004

Eight Stages of Genocide mural painted in Belfast, 25 September 2004.

Articles by Genocide Watch Director Dr. Gregory Stanton

‘Ethnic cleansing’ bleaches the atrocities of genocide by Rony Blum, Gregory H. Stanton, Shira Sagi, and Elihu D. Richter, The European Journal of Public Health.

Building an Anti-Genocide Regime forthcoming in Genocide: An Annotated Bibliographical Review, edited by Samuel Totten.

Proving Genocide in Darfur: The Atrocities Documentation Project and Resistance to Its Findings.

Facing Mass Murder in Zimbabwe by Gregory Stanton and Kevin Engle, 12 August 2005.

Seeking Justice in Cambodia: Realism, Idealism, and Pragmatism.

Early Warning in the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Thomson-Gale, 2005.

Bloodbath in the Making: Darfur, Sudan Toronto Globe and Mail, 2 April 2004.

Audio- Iraq: A Case Study on the Roots of Genocide, National Public Radio, 18 February 2004.

Transcript of NPR Report from 18 February 2004.

Working Paper for the Stockholm Forum on Genocide Prevention: Create a United Nations Genocide Prevention Focal Point and Genocide Prevention Center, January 2004.

The Genocide Prevention Center: A Proposal, March 2004

Genocide Watch: India, Those Who Own the Past Own the Future Aegis Review, Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 2003-2004.

Perfection is the Enemy of Justice: A Response to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch's Criticisms of the Agreement Between the Cambodian Government and U.N. to Establish the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

The Calling of International Law

The Call published in Pioneers in Genocide Studies published by Samuel Totten and Steven L. Jacobs, 2002.

Could the Rwandan Genocide Have Been Prevented? presented at the conference "Generations of Genocide," January 2002.

How We Can Prevent Genocide, Speech given at the Lemkin Conference, London, 18 October 2000.

War Crimes, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity in East Timor: Options for an International Criminal Tribunal, August 1999.

The Eight Stages of Genocide 1996.

The Cambodian Genocide and International Law, published in Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia, edited by Ben Kiernan, 1993.

Blue Scarves and Yellow Stars: Classification and Symbolization in the Cambodian Genocide, The Faulds Lecture, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC, 1987.

Cambodian Resurrection, Yale Law Report, Spring 1981.

Articles about Genocide Watch Director Dr. Gregory Stanton

Turning Horror Into Action by Tarron Lively, The Washington Times, May 14, 2007

A Quest for Justice by Brian D. Shaw, Washington and Lee Alumni Magazine, October 1987.

His Brother's Keeper by Michael Matza, 1983