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Identicide^[1]^[2]^[3] is the deliberate, systematic and targeted destruction of the places, symbols, objects, including ideas, values and aesthetica, and other cultural property that represent the identity of a people, with the intent to erase the cultural narrative and memory of that people, demoralize a population, absorb it into another cultural/political verity, or to rid an area of that people altogether.

Examples of identicide can be observed in the destruction of the Bridge of Mostar and the National and University Library in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the willful damage of Islamic iconography and archaeological treasures such as Palmyra by ISIL in Syria.

Identicide offers a way to frame some of the destructive acts that precede genocide. The international convention on Genocide does not include this predictive framework. Genocidal acts must have already taken place for a situation to be legally termed "genocide." Because it cannot be named as such until after the fact, earlier intentional and destructive acts are often termed ‘potential genocide’ or ‘possible genocide’. Identicide is a term that captures the force of pre-genocidal acts and is a phenomenon unto itself.^[4]

In being a series of acts or pre-emptive stages of genocide or as an alternative to genocide, identicide incorporates many of the other more specific phenomena and related activities ending in “-cide”, including ethnocide, topocide, terracide, democide, memoricide, urbicide, gendercide, gynocide, sociocide and domicide. These other -cides are elements that contribute to cultural identity, denoting the destruction of a part or aspect of it. Identicide determines the destruction of the whole.^[5]

^ Meharg, Sarah Jane. "Identicide and cultural cannibalism: Warfare's appetite for symbolic place." Peace Research 33.2 (2001): 89-98.
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^ Post, Jerrold M. "Terrorism and right-wing extremism: The changing face of terrorism and political violence in the 21st century: The virtual community of hatred." International journal of group psychotherapy 65.2 (2015): 242-271.
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[1] Meharg, Sarah Jane. "Identicide and cultural cannibalism: Warfare's appetite for symbolic place." Peace Research 33.2 (2001): 89-98.

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[4] Post, Jerrold M. "Terrorism and right-wing extremism: The changing face of terrorism and political violence in the 21st century: The virtual community of hatred." International journal of group psychotherapy 65.2 (2015): 242-271.

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