LEMKIN AWARD CALL 2011

The Lemkin Award

The ISG's Lemkin Award honors Raphael Lemkin, the originator of the concept of genocide and first exponent of a United Nations Genocide Convention. The biennial award recognizes the best non-fiction book published in English or translated into English that focuses on explanations of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, state mass killings and gross violations of human rights, and strategies to prevent such crimes and violations.

Edited volumes, memoirs, poetry, fiction and drama are excluded.

The award consists of a citation and honorarium, and the winner is invited to deliver a public address in New York at a meeting convened by the Institute for the Study of Genocide.

Recipients of the award include:

2011: Emma Gilligan “Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War" (Princeton, 2009)

2009: Darius Rejali "Torture and Democracy" (Princeton, 2007)

2007: Donald Bloxham "The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians" (Oxford, 2005)

2005: Peter Balakian "The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response" (Harper Collins, 2003)

2003: Samantha Power "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" (Harper Perennial, 2002)

2000: Alison Des Forges "Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda" (Human Rights Watch and FIDH, 1999)

The current award cycle covers books published between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2012. The first round of nominations should be submitted by December 31, 2011.

Prior to sending books please contact Lemkin Award Committee Chair, Professor Ernesto Verdeja at: everdeja at nd dot edu