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Leo Kuper (1908–1994) was a South African writer and philosopher. He was born to a Lithuanian Jewish family. He trained as a lawyer before becoming a sociologist specialising in the study of genocide. ==Biography== He married the anthropologist Hilda Beemer Kuper, with whom he had two daughters: the international human rights lawyer Dr Jenny Kuper and the painter and sculptor Mary Kuper. Kuper was an active member of the Liberal Party of South Africa during the 1950s and some of his involvements are detailed in Alan Paton's book ''Journey Continued''. During the 1960s, Kuper moved to Los Angeles, California, United States, where he took up teaching and researching at UCLA. His publications include ''The Pity of it All'', ''Passive Resistance in South Africa'', and ''The Prevention of Genocide''. Kuper was a founding member of the International Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem and the Liberal Party of Natal.〔()〕 In the mid-1980s, he founded International Alert, with the support of Michael Young, Martin Ennals and others.〔https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IUUuFeeM1OwC&lpg=PA99&ots=XrqfEnr6iX&dq=international%20alert%20leo%20kuper&pg=PA99#v=onepage&q=%22international%20alert%22&f=false〕〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-leo-kuper-1438982.html〕〔http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-27/news/mn-62711_1_leo-kuper〕〔https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mMzM5Q2Mxv8C&lpg=PA273&ots=hCbhui6jW8&dq=international%20alert%20leo%20kuper&pg=PA273#v=onepage&q=%22international%20alert%22&f=false〕〔https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mMzM5Q2Mxv8C&lpg=PA273&ots=hCbhui6jW8&dq=international%20alert%20leo%20kuper&pg=PA288#v=onepage&q=%22international%20alert%22&f=false〕〔http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb5g50061q&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00060&toc.depth=1&toc.id=〕〔https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rgGA91skoP4C&lpg=PA131&ots=S9ikvU1OwD&dq=international%20alert%20leo%20kuper&pg=PA131#v=onepage&q=international%20alert%20leo%20kuper&f=false〕〔http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu:8080/xtf/view?docId=oac/oac7/OAC.ucla_mss_kupe1550.c.xml〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leo Kuper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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