The word ‘genocide’ was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1945 and was first used in the same year in an indictment brought before the Nuremburg Tribunal.In the 1948 Genocide Convention, Article 2 defines ‘genocide’ as “...act…

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, two sets of phenomena are challenging our understanding of democracy and democratization.At a bare minimum democracy requires: sovereign elected institutions; universal adult…