Genocide is defined as the mass, organized elimination of a racial or ethnic group through killing, causing serious harm, inflicting living conditions to bring about destruction, preventing births, or forcibly transferring children. The UN Genocide Convention of 1948 defines genocide as a crime and lists five punishable acts: genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement, attempt, and complicity. Dr. Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch identified ten stages that often occur in genocides: classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization, organization, polarization, persecution, preparation, extermination, and denial.

1. Genocide
PATTERNS OF RACIAL / ETHNIC RELATIONS
Professor Christine Monnier

2. What is Genocide?
Definition: the mass, organized, systemic, physical elimination (or attempted elimination) of a specific racial or
ethnic group.
The victims are targeted for their racial and/or ethnic identity.
Genocide is a crime, defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 (full text at the link).
Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
a) Killing members of the group;
b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in
whole or in part;
d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

3. What is Genocide?
Article III: The following acts shall be punishable:
a) Genocide;
b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
d) Attempt to commit genocide;
e) Complicity in genocide.
Acts of genocide:

4. Genocide in the 20th Century

5. Ten Stages of Genocide
DEFINED BY DR. GREGORY STANTON,
 Classification
 Symbolization
 Discrimination
 Dehumanization
 Organization
OF GENOCIDE WATCH:
 Polarization
 Persecution
 Preparation
 Extermination
 Denial