Will it make a difference to call ISIS atrocities a genocide?

c. 2015 Religion News Service

(RNS) A multifaith group of religious freedom advocates are calling on President Obama and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to declare “that the Islamic State’s actions against religious and ethnic minority populations in the Middle East is genocide.”

Declaring ISIS’s actions genocide could open new doors to military, diplomatic and humanitarian intervention by the international community, intergovernmental organizations and individual countries. But it won’t be easy.