Retributive Genocide in the Highlands

ISBN-13: 9783838375724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 120 str.

Jonas Haertle

Opis

Using an expanded definition of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide this work analyzes the factors leading to Guatemalas military operations from 1978 until 1983 against Guatemalas indigenous population and gives details why these operations accounted for genocide. The main factors to explain the atrocities were the long lasting alienation of Guatemalas indigenous and non-indigenous population and the evolution of a "new," i.e. national indigenous identity previous to the conflict.

O autorze

Jonas Haertle is Head of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) secretariat of the United Nations Global Compact Office. Mr. Haertle also coordinates the Global Compact Local Networks in Latin America and the Caribbean. He holds masters' degrees in European Studies, Hamburg University, and Global Affairs, Rutgers University.