Chandran Kukathas on Genocide

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 December 2008

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Genocide is, at first glance, a straightforward term. We understand what it is and why it is such an evil. But, as Chandran Kukathas of the London School of Economics argues in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, perhaps the received definition of this term needs refinement.

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0:00.0	This is
0:02.0	This is Philosophy Bites with me David Edmonds
0:05.0	And me, Nigel War Burton.
0:07.0	Philosophy Bites is available at
0:09.0	W.w. Philosophy Bites.
0:11.0	The term genocide was coined to capture the most heinous crime of the 20th century,
0:16.4	the systematic attempt to eradicate amongst others European jury.
0:20.3	Mass murder seemed an inadequate description because what the Nazis wanted to do was not just kill at random, but to wipe out a particular people and a particular culture.
0:30.0	The label of genocide has also been used to describe other episodes in the 20th century,
0:35.0	the slaughter of Armenians of the Ottoman Empire during World War I,
0:39.0	the Hutu massacres of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. However Chandran Kukut us of the London School of Economics argues that the legal definition of genocide fails to capture
0:49.6	what's really wrong with such crimes and ought to be redrafted.
0:53.8	Chondran Cookethuss,
0:55.2	welcome to Philosophy Bites.
0:56.6	Thank you.
0:57.1	I'm very pleased to be here.
0:58.9	We're going to talk about genocide and most people think they know what that is,
1:02.2	but it's not as simple a concept as you might think.
1:05.0	Could we just start by talking about what the legal definition of genocide is?
1:10.0	Well according to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
1:15.6	Crime of Genocide, genocide means any of a number of acts committed with the intent to
1:20.4	destroy in whole or in part a national,
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