Genocide recognition politics are efforts to have a certain event (re)interpreted as a "genocide" or officially designated as such.[1][2][3][4][5] Such efforts may occur regardless of whether the event meets the definition of genocide laid out in the 1948 Genocide Convention.[6]
In countries with settler colonial past, recognition of colonial genocides is difficult as the national past could be called into question.[7] Most genocides have been perpetrated by states.[8][9]
^Mutlu-Numansen, Sofia; Ossewaarde, Marinus (2019). "A Struggle for Genocide Recognition: How the Aramean, Assyrian, and Chaldean Diasporas Link Past and Present". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 33 (3): 412–428. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcz045.