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Analysis of the Yazidi Genocide Discourse
Vejvodová, Nela ; Daniel, Jan (advisor) ; Záhora, Jakub (referee)
How to respond to ongoing genocide? How to punish her perpetrators? In 2014, world witnessed another modern genocide, the eradication of the whole ethnicity - the so-called Islamic State attacked an area in northern Iraq for centuries inhabited by members of a small but distinct ethnical group of Yazidi people. This diploma thesis deals with the establishment of discourse of Yazidi genocide, the process of recognition of events as genocide at the international level. In this work I investigate the definition of victims and aggressors and the international response to genocide, both in the media and political sphere. For the discourse of the Yazidi genocide was crucial to differentiate victims and violence against them from other events. Similarly, it was important to accurately name the perpetrators of genocide and treat them as a potential geopolitical threat, but as the cause of one of the worst crimes known to mankind. The discourse of the Yazidi genocide was largely determined by politicians - and, as I show in my work, the political dimension of events has pushed the humanitarian and legal ones behind. These all aspects take on the formation and maintenance of a given discourse.
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The term genocide in international law
Lukáč, Radovan ; Bílková, Veronika (advisor) ; Lipovský, Milan (referee)
According to the internation law, genocide is a crime commited by persons endowed with state power or is commited with knowledge of the state, violating important norms of international law. Thesis is analyzing term "genocide" since its birth. We owe coining of the term to Polish lawyer with Jewish heritage, Raphael Lemkin, who characterised it in year 1944 in hope, that it will help with prosecution and sentencing of nazi war criminals in Nurnberg. It, unfortunately, did not happen. Their were charged only with crimes against humanity and war crimes. Term "genocide" did not help to prove guilt of unlawful acts of the nazi clique against ethnic and national minorities, but tribunals have subsumed it under terms such as "extermination" or "mass killings". Only after the final judgements were passed and sentences carried out, was Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted in 1948. To call unlawful acts a genocide, subjective and objective element must be present. Subjective element requires special intent to destroy, in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. To fulfill objective element, one of the acts ennumerated in Article II of Genocide convention must be commited. Thesis is analyzing term "genocide" as characterised in Genocide...
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The Comparison of Polish and Ukrainian Institutes of National Remembrance and their Interpretations of the Massacre of Poles in Volhynia
Lavrentev, Aleksei ; Vykoukal, Jiří (advisor) ; Zilynskyj, Bohdan (referee)
The thesis compares Polish and Ukrainian Institutes of National Remembrance, analyses Polish and Ukrainian dominant models of the collective memory and historical narratives of the massacre of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia 1943. The analysis also clarifies and compares interpretations of this phenomenon by Polish and Ukrainian Institutes. The subjects of the research are Polish and Ukrainian Institutions of National Remembrance themselves, as the main promoting tools of politics of memory in their states. The thesis covers a period from the revolutionary changes in Ukraine in 2014 (have changed Ukrainian historical narratives and politics of memory) to present days. Political situations in Ukraine (2014) and Poland (2015) are reflected in this thesis, as they are in the direct relation with changings in politics of memory, which have restored the conflict of memory. The first signs of the memory conflict (Yushchenko presidency and the first Law and Justice cabinet) are explained briefly, as thesis is focused on a current situation. The massacre of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, which is the most tragic point of modern Polish-Ukrainian relations, is described as a sticking point between Poland and Ukraine. The analysis argues in detail that Polish and Ukrainian Institutes are...
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Impacts of 1990's genocide on population of Rwanda and its awareness about family planning
Jelínková, Kamila ; Hulíková Tesárková, Klára (advisor) ; Kurtinová, Olga (referee)
Impacts of 1990's genocide on population of Rwanda and its awareness about family planning Abstract This thesis pursues the demographic development and the population's attitude to family planning in the state of Rwanda. The observed time period includes the second half of the 20th century to the present time. The first aim is the basic description of the demographic development of the state in relation to historical events. It's well known that wars have a negative impact on the population and economics of a state. The civil war broke out which brought big population losses in Rwanda in the 1990's. In this period the demographic revolution proceeded as it had in many other developing countries, which was important for the socioeconomic development of the state, and it was ceased as a consequence of the genocide. The Rwandan government at that time as one of the first governments began with the support of family planning programmes, which could have had a positive impact on the acceleration of the demographic transition. The second aim of the thesis is the determination whether the genocide had an impact on these governmental initiatives and stalled broadening of the awareness of family planning among the population this way, namely by means of media. The last aim of the thesis is the determination whether...
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Modern states and genocides : the fate of Turkish Armenians and European Jews
Šeferna, Václav ; Kosek, Jan (advisor) ; Pithart, Petr (referee)
Modern states and genocides: the fate of Turkish Armenians and European Jews This thesis primarily explores the relationship between modernity, modern thinking and modern state on one hand and the Holocaust, Armenian genocide or other genocides, on the other. The purpose of my thesis is to answer the question whether a modern state can be considered a perpetrator of both these tragedies. Furthermore, in my thesis I investigate the causes of these genocides and mainly the influence of nationalism, bureaucracy and racism. The first part of the thesis is devoted to genocide and implementation this concept in international criminal law. I deal with the emergence of this concept and its subsequent development as an independent crime under international law. In the second part I deal with the classification of genocides. First, I deal with the typology of genocides by individual authors. I also examine the differences between traditional massacres and modern genocide, name the pivotal features of modern genocide and try to answer the question of whether it makes sense to use the term "traditional genocide" at all. In the next chapter I focus on the Armenian genocide. This part begins with a short introduction of the Armenians, a quick overview of their history and a description of the Armenian situation in the...
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The Role of the Genocide in Rwanda on the Development of the African Union
Burianová, Kateřina ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Doboš, Bohumil (referee)
Genocide in Rwanda represents a significant historical milestone on global and regional level. The events in Rwanda in 1994 caused deaths of approximately one million people and showed that the international community's passivity towards ongoing genocide led African leaders to believe that the resolution of conflicts on the continent is primarily their responsibility. The Organisation of African Unity, as a key organisation unifying African states, was the best institutional instrument to ensure continental safety. However, the organisation faced several problems, so the Sirte Declaration on the establishment of the African Union was accepted in 1999 to replace the existing Organisation of African Unity. In 2002, the organisation's first official summit was held. The thesis examines the extent to which Rwandan genocide has influenced the development of the African Union, in particular on the issue of access to security and the concept of state sovereignty. Rwandan genocide is treated as an exogenous shock and a historical milestone, which has significantly influenced the thinking of changing the approach to conflict resolution and the concept of sovereignty. The theoretical framework of thesis is formed by a constructivist conception of sovereignty and an exogenous shock that completes the overall...
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Reflection of the Genocide of Czech Jews from 1945 until Present Times (The Analysis of the National Stories of Holocaust Survivors Host Countries and Influence on Their Individual War Testimonies)
Roubínek, Jan ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
(in English): My goal is to demonstrate that witnesses of certain historical events can describe their experiences in a variety of ways without distorting actual facts. The subject of my research is a reflection of the Czech Jewry Genocide through the eyes of a generation born during the so-called first Czechoslovak Republic. On the day of their liberation, Czech Jews who had survived Shoah were mainly unified in the fundamental aspects of the perception of their past in Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps, regardless of whether their native tongue was Czech or German. What's more, any ideological differences that could have possibly existed between them in pre-war years, ceased being important under the influence of a common fate. It is fair to say then, that from the viewpoint of Czech Shoah Survivors in 1945, they constituted a relatively unified group but not for much longer. After the end of WWII, these people returned to the newly established Czechoslovak Republic and the point of view within the groups gradually began to vary. For some, the new regime had fulfilled their expectations. The majority of Czech Jews however, chose to emigrate after the Communist Coup d'etat and in time began to share their war experiences. The Jews in the Czech Republic began telling their stories as well....
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Reflection of the Great Famine in Ukraine (1932 - 1933) in modern foreign policy of the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Hynková, Gabriela ; Kolenovská, Daniela (advisor) ; Zilynskyj, Bohdan (referee)
This thesis deals with current foreign policy of the Russian Federation under the Presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, specifically with one of its components, which is soft power. This is an issue of shared history between the Russian Federation and Ukraine and it focuses on the impact of the use of common historical experience in Ukraine. The thesis includes a lot of various interpretations of the Ukrainian famine between 1932 and 1933, which had arisen in 1930s and have been developing over the decades and which in the present days, form the basis of Russian and Ukrainian perspective of "the famine period". Important are the 90s when Russia after the Soviet Union's collapse had big issue with self-identification. Ukrainians, on the contrary, during 90s were trying to create a "Ukrainian national identity". Period (1928 - 1953) was the most formative for Ukraine. This period represents the most tragic era in the history of Ukraine and one of the most profoundly influential in the formation of contemporary thinking about the modern nation and its relationship to the past. Since 2000 Ukraine and the Russian Federation are disputes about whether it was a common tragedy, famine and even genocide. It also deals with the current controversy over whether famine can be considered as a genocide...
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Genocide in Rwanda in 1994 in the czech contemporary press
Buchetka, Oldřich ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Cebe, Jan (referee)
The topic of this thesis is Genocide in Rwanda which occurred in 1994 and its reflection in Czech press during that time. The aim is to find out in what way the chosen press reported about the genocide itself, the violence in 1994 that preceded it and events that ensued. The findings are compared mutually. Specifically, it's about Mladá fronta Dnes and Lidové noviny that were chosen to represent right sided press. Rudé právo, a newspaper closer to left side of political spectrum, and weekly prints named Respekt and Reflex all representing non-daily print. The thesis is ment as a probe closely investigating Czech media and painting general picture of how the media reported about the conflict in Rwanda. The thesis is divided into two parts, the theoretical and investigative part, the former describing the general characteristics of the country and the historical causes of the tension between the two ethnic groups, events that preceded the genocide and last but not least the course of events that unfolded afterwards during the same year while the latter analyzes the selected Czech prints.
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The United Nations International Criminal Tribunals and their interpretation of the crime of genocide
Zwinger, Tomáš ; Šturma, Pavel (advisor) ; Bílková, Veronika (referee)
1 Summary This thesis deals with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals and their interpretation of the crime of genocide. There are two United Nations courts: The International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. These ad hoc Tribunals were the first international Tribunals since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials. They were established by Security Council Resolutions in accordance with Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter as subsidiary organs of the Security Council. The Tribunals were the first international bodies which, after almost 50 years of existence, interpreted and applied the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide which was adopted by United Nations General Assembly in 1948. Their practice has shown the whole world that individuals can be charged with the crime of genocide and consecutively sentenced. The purpose of this thesis is to briefly describe the historical development of the international criminal justice until the establishment of these two United Nations International Criminal Tribunals, characterize both Tribunals and find out how they interpret the crime of genocide and the contribution of their case law to the international criminal law. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The...
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