Ways To Prevent Genocide In A Post Holocaust World
By The Conversation Kerry Whigham , Binghamton University, State University of New York The newly formed United Nations passed its first international treaty on Dec. 9, 1948, just three years after the Holocaust ended. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was designed to prevent genocide from ever happening again. But governments worldwide currently remain far from the goal of preventing genocide – despite 152 of them eventually signing on to the Genocide Convention. Genocide, meaning actions taken with the intent to destroy a group of people because of thei...