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  • adjective Acting against or opposing genocide.

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anti- +‎ genocide.

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Examples

  • "What's the use of doing all this state building and capacity building if they're going back to war?" asks John Prendergast, who cofounded an antigenocide project at the Center for American Progress in Washington.

    Sorry, Sudan 2010

  • "We are the antigenocide paparazzi," Clooney said.

    MP Nunan: Sudan. Through Clooney's Eyes. MP Nunan 2010

  • There is in formation a growing antigenocide movement in the U.S. today, one that understandably contains many people who are just learning about international relations and what is really going on in places like Sudan, half a world away.

    Dueling Over Darfur 2007

  • "We are the antigenocide paparazzi," Clooney tells TIME.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • "A successful agreement could prevent conflict, whereas if Abyei and other issues remain unresolved, war becomes much more likely," said John Prendergast, of the antigenocide Enough

    NYT > Home Page By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN 2011

  • "We are the antigenocide paparazzi," Clooney tells TIME.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • John Norris, the executive director of Enough, an antigenocide project.

    NDTV News - Top Stories 2010

  • "Hundreds of thousands of Darfurians are very likely alive today because of the strength of the antigenocide activist movement," argues Prendergast.

    Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories 2009

  • For John Prendergast, the Rwandan genocide broke the apathy of the 1990s, and gave momentum for an international antigenocide movement, which has forced political leaders, UN agencies, and now the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take action before genocide reaches the horrific levels of Rwanda.

    Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories 2009

  • "One of the most important developments in international law since the Nuremberg trials has been the creation of the ICC," says Mr. Prendergast, head of the Washington-based antigenocide group, the Enough Project.

    Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories 2009

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