This book offers a comprehensive study of incitement in its various forms in international law. It discusses the status of incitement to hatred in human rights law and examines its harms and dangers as well as the impact of a prohibition on freedom of speech. The book additionally presents a detailed definition of punishable incitement. In this context, Wibke K. Timmermann argues that incitement should be recognized as the crime of persecution, where it is utilized within a system of persecutory measures by the State or a similarly powerful organization.

Introduction 1. The Harm of Public Incitement to Hatred 2. Incitement to Hatred and the Right to Freedom of Speech 3. The Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred in Human Rights Law 4. Incitement to Hatred as Persecution 5. Criminalization of Incitement to Crimes 6. Conclusion

Wibke K. Timmermann, PhD, LLM, is a lawyer at Legal Aid Western Australia in Perth, Australia. She previously worked as a Legal Officer at the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the ICTR. She has published a number of articles on the topic of incitement.