The Course is part of the core subject of Public International Law and Human Rights. It can also be part of the International Criminal Law paper offered in the Post Graduate Studies Branches in International Law, Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Criminal Law (Introduction to International Crimes).

I have approached the Course inter alia on the following academic experience gained by me in various phases of teaching and researching in international law, such as: Dissertation (M.Phil, International Legal Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University) on covering the jurisprudence on the prohibition of genocide evolved by the International Ad hoc Tribunals (ICTY & ICTR); (ii) Research Paper on developing a Criminology for International Crimes, International Criminology (commencing from Colonial Crimes); (iii) Studying the dynamics of Genocide Studies, in particular focalising on the prevention of genocide; (iii) Analysing the Preventive Strategies on Genocide prepared by the United Nations (UN) Office of the Prevention of Genocide and Responsibility to Protect (Framework Report on Atrocity Crimes); (iv) Examining the International Case Law Digest of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on State Responsibility in interpreting the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948 (Genocide Convention).

The pedagogical methods will involve the following: (i) Lecture Method; (ii) Humaneering Method: Academic Enquiries, General and Contemporary Problem Solving, Discussion and One to One Student Training; (iii) Visual and Biographical Method: Genocide- Select Documentaries and Films, Bio-Pictures and Narratives of Victims of Genocide; (iv) Interpretive Method: Skills of Interpreting International Judicial Decisions (Art of Reading Judgments on Genocide (Individual and State Criminal Responsibility); (v) Presentation Method: Assigning Individual Topics and Improving the Visions of the Student; (vi) Dialogue Method: Strengthening the Intellectual Ability of the Students to develop Skills of Intellectual Exchange of Ideas and Standpoint.

The Course Module consists of Six Units. In structure and substance, they are as follows: (a) Fundamental Perspectives in Understanding the Crime of Genocide-Historical cum Criminological and Patterns/Techniques of the Genocidist; (b) Concept of “Dolus Specialis” and its Determination under the Genocide Convention; (c) Jurisprudence on Genocide evolved by the International Ad-Hoc Tribunals; (d) State Responsibility for Acts of Genocide-Corpus juris of the ICJ; (e) Question of Prevention of Genocide in the Present and Future-Role of UN and International Community; (f) Remedial Approaches (Psycho- Political-Socio-Economic-Legal) to the Survivors/Victims of Genocide. The above sequence will provide the students with a closer understanding of the specifics of the international crime of genocide beginning from the cause and effect method of introducing the ideology and behaviour of genocidist; it moves to the penological jurisprudence and to the required remedial phase of the prevention and rehabilitation.