Genocide studies

Genocide studies is an academic field of study that researches genocide. Genocide became a field of study in the mid-1940s, with the work of Raphael Lemkin, who coined genocide and started genocide research, and its primary subjects were the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust;[1] the Holocaust was the primary subject matter of genocide studies, starting off as a side field of Holocaust studies, and the field received an extra impetus in the 1990s, when the Rwandan genocide occurred.[2] It received further attraction in the 2010s through the formation of a gender field.[3]

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18th /19th/early 20th century genocides
Dzungar genocide Circassian genocide Black War Moriori genocide California genocide Selk'nam genocide Herero and Namaqua genocide
Late Ottoman genocides (1910s–1920s)
Greek genocide Sayfo Armenian genocide
World War II (1939–1945)
The Holocaust Romani genocide Genocide of Serbs by the Ustashe Genocide of Croats and Muslims by the Chetniks Nazi crimes against the Polish nation
Cold War (1940s–1991)
Bangladesh genocide Ikiza East Timor genocide Cambodian genocide Guatemalan genocide Gukurahundi Isaaq genocide
Contemporary ethno-religious genocides
Bosnian genocide Rwandan genocide Effacer le tableau Darfur genocide Yazidi genocide Iraqi Turkmen genocide Uyghur genocide Rohingya genocide
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Anfal campaign Anti-communist mass killings Indonesia 1965–66 Atrocities in the Congo Free State Compulsory sterilization Democide Ethnic cleansing Ethnocide Forced assimilation Mass killings under communist regimes Holodomor / genocide question Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War Predictions of a genocide in Ethiopia Vendée genocide debate Raphael Lemkin
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It is a complex field which has a lack of consensus on definition principles[4] and has had a complex relationship with mainstream political science;^{[clarification needed]} it has enjoyed renewed research and interest in the last decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. It remains a relevant yet minority school of thought that has not yet achieved mainstream status within political science.[5]