We live in times of kaleidoscopic
historical change when international law and settled after World War II
world order once again find themselves threatened and become as the
object of flagrant violations. The issue of responsibility of particular
subjects of international relations and specific individuals for
outright criminal actions that harm the civilized humanity is actual and
raised once again.
In this regard, Ukraine based NGO “Society Initiatives Institute”
seeks to eliminate embarrassing information void in the social, cultural
and spiritual spheres, formed around the figure of the scientist,
lawyer, expert on international law Raphael Lemkin, scholar who created
and implemented in the broadest scientific and legal usage, the term
“genocide.” A true cosmopolitan, Polish lawyer, with Jewish descent,
born in territory of modern Belarus, who studied in Ukraine and Germany,
before working in the universities in USA, he was writing about the
genocide of Armenians, Assyrians (also known as Syriacs) and Jewish
People.
It was his efforts which led the term to be entrenched in Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted by
Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9
December 1948. Also back in 1953, in his speech to the New York audience
“The Soviet genocide in Ukraine”, Raphael Lemkin, was the first to
recognize and speak about the crimes of the Stalinist Communist regime
against the Ukrainian people, analyzing it in the context of
international law.
In order to properly commemorate the name of Raphael Lemkin and to
spread and continue the theoretical researches on the issues of
genocides, Society Initiatives Institute is organizing this
International Essay Contest.
Eligibility
The contest is open to all interested around the globe.
Key Message
The theme of the International Essay Contest is “Genocide – the dark mark of humanity”.
Essay may be written in the context of legal, political, historical,
cultural, economic or any other issue connected to genocide.
How to apply?
The deadline for submission of an essay is 30th of November, 2014.
Each contestant can submit only one essay developed in English,
Ukrainian, Russian or Polish. It must reflect the contestant’s own
writing and original thinking. The Committee will disqualify any essay
where plagiarism is suspected.
An essay should be maximum 1000 words long in the following format:
essay title / author’s name and contacts / school/university/affiliation
/ essay (introduction, main arguments, conclusions).
Essays and all questions should be sent to essay@sii.org.ua.
The deadline for submission of an essay is 30th of November, 2014.
Awards
The winners will be selected by the Committee established by Society
Initiatives Institute consisting of board members and scholars not more
than two weeks after the deadline of essays submission.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners chosen by the Committee will be awarded with 300, 200 and 100 euro respectively.
The best essays will be published on web-pages of organization and its partners.
NB: The link of the original site is available here.
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