Holocaust and Genocide Denial : A Contextual Perspective (Hardcover)

List of contributors

Introduction

Paul Behrens, Nicholas Terry and Olaf Jensen

Part I

Development and concept of genocide denial

1. Alexander Ratcliffe: British Holocaust denial in embryo

Mark Hobbs

 2. Countering Holocaust denial in relation to the Nuremberg trials

Michael Salter

3.  Holocaust denial in the age of web 2.0: negationist discourse since the Irving-Lipstadt trial

Nicholas Terry

Part II

Holocaust and genocide denial around the world

4. Silence and denial in Gulag testimonies: listening for the unspeakable

Elisabeth Anstett

5. The presence of the past: on the significance of the Holocaust and the criminalisation of its negation in the Federal Republic of Germany

Christian Mentel

6. The prohibition of ‘glorification of National Socialism’ as an addition to the criminal provision on genocide denial: (Sect. 130 (4) of the German Criminal Code)

Bjorn Elberling and Alexander Hoffmann

7. Reckoning with the past? Rwanda's revised Genocide Ideology Law and international human rights law on freedom of expression

Sejal Parmar

8.  A view of the impact of genocide denial laws in Rwanda

Niamh Barry

9. Confronting genocide denial: using the law as a tool in combating genocide denial in Rwanda

Freda Kabatsi

10. Srebrenica and genocide denial in the former Yugoslavia: what has the ICTY done to address it?

Dejana Radisavljevi? and Martin Petrov

11. Holocaust denial in Iran: Ahamdinejad, the 2006 Holocaust conference and international law

Paul Behrens

12. A centenary of denial: the case of the Armenian genocide

Narine Ghazaryan

Part III

Dealing with Holocaust and genocide denial

13. From introduction to implementation: first steps of the EU Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA against racism and xenophobia

Paolo Lobba

14. Combating genocide denial via law: etat des lieux of anti-denial legislation

Caroline Fournet and Clotilde Pegorier

15. Why not the law? Options for dealing with genocide and Holocaust denial

Paul Behrens

16. Concluding thoughts

Paul Behrens, Nicholas Terry and Olaf Jensen

Index