Confronting genocide / edited by René Provost and Payam Akhavan.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-354) and index.

Moving from repression to prevention of genocide / Payam Akhavan and René Provost -- From Irish famine to Congo reform : nineteenth-century roots of international human rights law and activism / Ben Kiernan -- Darfur : genocidal theory and practical atrocities / Gérard Prunier -- Sovereignty as responsibility for the prevention of genocide / Francis M. Deng -- Citizenship, national identity, and genocide / Douglas Greenberg -- Incitement, prevention and media rights / Mark Thompson -- Some problems of genocide prevention / Yehuda Bauer -- Preventing genocide through military intervention : peacekeeping troops in the "responsibility to protect" era / Wiebe Arts -- Combating state-sanctioned incitement to genocide : a legal and moral imperative / Irwin Cotler -- Facing history : denial and the Turkish national security concept / Taner Akçam.

The role of economic sanctions in deterring serious human rights violations : South Africa, Iraq, and Darfur / Richard J. Goldstone -- Expectation of prosecuting the crimes of genocide in China / Wenqi Zhu and Binxin Zhang -- Not "lambs to the slaughter": a program for resistance to genocidal law / Frédéric Mégret -- Privatizing humanitarian intervention? Mercenaries, PMCs and the business of peace / Krzysztof Kotarski and Samuel Walker -- Creating the outcry : citizen-driven political will for genocide prevention in the US context / Rebecca J. Hamilton -- The role of the international community in assisting the International Criminal Court to secure justice and accountability / Luis Moreno-Ocampo -- International justice : from the twilight to the dawn? International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo at McGill University / Noah Weisbord -- The politics of legal accountability and genocide prevention / Catherine Lu -- A psychological investigation of individual and social transformations in post-genocide Rwanda / Jobb Arnold -- Creating the essential middle ground : using media to enhance tolerance and co-habitation in Africa / Mary Kimani.