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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1989 4(2):149-160; doi:10.1093/hgs/4.2.149
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‘Genocide in the 20th Century’

DEFINITIONS OF GENOCIDE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PREDICTION AND PREVENTION*

FRANK CHALK

Concordia University Montreal

Several new issues have been raised by scholars and activists which bear on the prediction and prevention of genocide including the salience of the state as the perpetrator of genocide, the distinctiveness of genocide and the importance of intentionality in genocide. Genocide is primarily a crime of state and empirically it has not been true that it appears without intent. Nor is there any evidence that genocide is a continuous variable. Anticipation and prevention of genocide require a broadly based definition which emphasizes the role of the state, underscores the intent of the perpetrator and respects the crucial role that ideological motivation plays in modem genocides.

*Presented at the ‘Remembering for the Future’ Conference, Oxford, 10–13 July 1988.


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