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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Bedross Der Matossian, "Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Description: Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses a range of techniques, including disputes over numbers, contestation of legal definitions, blaming the victim, and various modes of intimidation, such as threats of legal action. Arguably the most effective strategy has been denial through the purposeful creation of misinformation.Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century (U Nebraska Press, 2023) brings together leading scholars from across disciplines to add to the body of genocide scholarship that is c...