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Global Challenges no. 18 (December 2025)

GENOCIDE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE POWER OF SEMANTICS

The term “genocide” lies at the heart of semantic battles over how to name contemporary mass violence. Why does it provoke so much controversy? Should legal scholars and social scientists keep using it?

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