Kurt Jonassohn’s research while affiliated with Concordia University and other places

... Subscriber: Wake Forest University; date: 08 January 2020 relative strength and consistency of genocides/politicides in predicting change in refugee stock supports Fein's (1993) and Jonassohn's (1993) claims that the majority of all refugee migrations are caused by genocides' (Schmeidl 1997: 302). Much of the research on con flict induced displacement thus focuses on the characteristics of the conflict in the coun try of origin and the conditions under which they lead to forced migration, with hypothe ses subsequently seeking to explain a wide range of phenomena, from broad determi nants of refugee flows in general to individuals' decisions within specific conflicts. ...

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Causes and Consequences of Conflict-Induced Displacement

... This animalistic dehumanization (Haslam, 2006) or infrahumanization (Leyens et al., 2000) is conveyed, for instance, in historical depictions of Black people as 'apes' or 'monkeys' (Kendi, 2016). Another example is that Jews and Bosnians were thought of as 'vermin' during their respective killings in the Holocaust and Srebrenica genocide (Chalk & Jonassohn, 1990;Kelman, 1973). The second form of dehumanization is referred to as mechanistic dehumanization, through which people are denied the qualities of human nature such as personal depth, emotional responsiveness and agency; thus, one would think of someone as an object, cold, lacking emotions and indifferent to most things. ...

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Effects of dehumanization and disgust-eliciting language on attitudes toward immigration: a sentiment analysis of Twitter data

... Roth's analysis on the "Logic of Racism" as he states: 112 Racial differentiation, usually traceable ultimately to physical differences such as skin color, has typically entailed distinction between superiority and inferiority. Attempts to justify such distinctions have often appealed to "nature" or to allegedly corroborations, but deeper inquiry into their origins indicates that such appeals have been rationalizations and legitimations for conceptual frameworks that have been constructed to ensure hegemonies of one kind or another. ...

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Genocide and Its Threat to International Society, PhD

... Despite this affirmation, genocide has been perpetrated repeatedly in the last seven decades, costing the lives of more than one million Bengali in Bangladesh in 1971 (Chalk & Jonassohn, 1990;Kuper, 1981); 150,000 Hutu in Burundi in 1972 (Chalk & Jonassohn, 1990;Kuper, 1977); 400,000 civilians in the Vietnam War from 1965-1974 (Lewy, 1978;Sartre, 1968); 1.5 million Cambodians from 1975-1979(Kiernan, 1994Becker, 1986); hundreds of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats in the Former Yugoslavia in 1992 (Bassiouni, 1996;Bekker, 1993); and 800,000 Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 (Destexhe, 1995;Prunier, 1995 It was widely expected that the successes of the IMT and the IMTFE would quickly lead to the establishment of a permanent international criminal court (Bassiouni, 1995;Ferencz, 1992;Bridge, 1964). The International Law Commission (ILC) studied the question of a permanent international criminal court at its 1949 and 1950 sessions and concluded that such institutions were "desirable" ...

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The Artsakh Conflict as a Violation of the Genocide Convention: Toward a Referral to the International Criminal Court

... Previous research furthermore contends that various forms of one-sided government violence such as acts of genocide and politicide increase forced migration (Jonassohn, 1993;Rummel, 1994;Jonassohn and Björnsen, 1998;Schmeidl, 1997). Several studies lend empirical support to this contention. ...

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Time to Go? Duration Dependence in Forced Migration