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Assignment:
Review the 3 scholarly definitions of genocide posted. Select one from which to construct the basis of your framework.
Peter Drost (1959)
"Genocide is the deliberate destruction of physical life of individual human beings by reason of their membership of any human collectivity as such."
Nehemiah Robinson (1960, interpreting the UN Convention)
"Genocide has been committed when acts of homicide are joined with a connecting purpose, ie., directed against persons with specific characteristics (with intent to destroy the group or a segment thereof)."
Vahakn Dadrian (1975)
"Genocide is the successful attempt by a dominant group, vested with formal authority and/or with preponderant access to the overall resources of power, to reduce by coercion or lethal violence the number of a minority group whose ultimate extermination is held desirable and useful and whose respective vulnerability is a major factor contributing to the decision for genocide."
Q1) Discuss why you have selected this specific definition and analyze its components, strengths, and weaknesses. You will want to focus specifically on analyzing the terminology used, and specify whether you are taking a "harder" of "softer" position. Isolate and identify any shortcomings (is there a specific group, factor, or element that the definition fails to address?).
Q2) Finally, use the scholarly definition as a basis to construct your own definition of genocide.