Publikacja powstała po konferencji „In Memory of Rafał Lemkin, on the 60. Anniversary of the Adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” zorganizowanej przez PISM we wrześniu 2008 r. w 60. rocznicę przyjęcia przez ONZ Konwencji w Sprawie Zapobiegania i Karania Zbrodni Ludobójstwa, której inicjatorem i współautorem był Rafał Lemkin.

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Preface by Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala and Sławomir Dębski                    

I. Keynote Speech at the Lemkin Conference (Warsaw, 18-19 September 2008)

Adam Daniel Rotfeld              
The Lemkin Concept of Genocide:  A New Definition for an Old Crime

II. Rafał  Lemkin's Life and Heritage

Ryszard Szawłowski               
Raphael Lemkin's Life Journey: From Creative Legal Scholar and Well-to-do Lawyer in Warsaw until 1939 to Pinnacle of International Achievements during the 1940s in the States, Ending Penniless Crusader in New York in the 1950s

Marek Kornat            
Rafał Lemkin's Formative Years and the Beginning of International Career in Inter-war Poland (1918-1939)

William Korey            
Lemkin's Passion: Origin and Fulfillment

III. Rafał Lemkin's Ideas of Humanization  of International Relations

Jean-Louis Panné                   
Raphael Lemkin and Raul Hilberg:  About a Concept

Stéphane Courtois                  
Raphael Lemkin and the Question of Genocide under Communist Regimes

Steven Leonard Jacobs                      
The Human, the Humane, and the Humanitarian:  Their Implications and Consequences in Raphael Lemkin's Work on Genocide

IV. Genocide in the Historical Perspective

Claudia Kraft              
Raphael Lemkin and the Debates about the Genocide Convention in Early Post-war Germany

Anton Weiss-Wendt               
The Soviet Union and the Genocide Convention: An Exercise in Cold War Politics

Samuel Totten             
The United States' Recalcitrance to Ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment  of the Crime of Genocide

Roman Serbyn            
Holodomor: The Ukrainian Genocide

V. Heritage of Rafał Lemkin's Concept of Genocide in International Law and Contemporary Conflicts

William A. Schabas                
Raphael Lemkin, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

Daphna Shraga                       
The Security Council and the Obligation to Prevent  and Punish Genocide

Zdzisław Kędzia                     
The Responsibility to Protect:  Political Strength versus Legal Fragility

Blaise Misztal              
Protect, but from What?  Genocide as a Concept of Moral and Legal Universalism

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