This course critically examines the definition of genocide, the origins, status and role of international legal norms prohibiting it, genocide in the context of removal of indigenous populations in the Americas, colonial domination, massacres of Armenians in 1915, the Holocaust, the Holodomor, the contribution of Rafael Lemkin and the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the situations in East Pakistan / Bangladesh, Cambodia, Argentina, Guatemala, Iraq, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor, Darfur, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Central African Republic, Syria and Myanmar, the role of the Nuremberg and Tokyo International Military Tribunals, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Court, and national courts. Such issues as ‘cultural genocide’, incitement to commit genocide, the role of media, State responsibility for genocide, women and children as victims and perpetrators of genocide, the responsibility to protect doctrine, and the role of the United Nations, International Court of Justice, Governments, non-governmental organizations and media in preventing genocide will also be covered. The course, broadly following the structure below, will be adjusted as the course progresses to fit time constraints.