Ethnic Cleansing by Larry May - 9781032812830

Ethnic CleansingA Social and Legal Examination\nAuthor(s): Larry May\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032812830, 978-1032812830\nSynopsis\nPutting forward the argument that the strength of democracies can be measured in how well minorities especially ethnic and racial minorities are treated by the majority, Larry Mays Ethnic Cleansing maintains that unjust ethnic cleansing is one of the greatest internal challenges to the modern institutions of pluralistic and multicultural states.\n\nIn order to determine what constitutes the crime of ethnic cleansing, this book details crucial conceptual issues around the topic, such as what ethnicity means, what ethnic cleansing claims to achieve, why these acts are invariably harmful, and the conditions of restitution, reparation, and reconciliation affirming that ethnic cleansing must be countered by existing institutions such as the International Criminal Court, which is.