Genocide, new perspectives on its causes, courses and consequences /
The twentieth century has been called, not inaccurately, a century of genocide. And the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen little change, with genocidal violence in Darfur, Congo, Sri Lanka, and Syria. Why is genocide so widespread, and so difficult to stop, across societies that differ...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Studies of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Dark side of humans / Ton Zwaan
- Genocide, an enduring problem of our age / Uǧur Ümit Üngör
- Ethnic nationalism and genocide : constructing "the other" in Romania and Serbia / Diana Oncioiu
- Demonic transitions : how ordinary people can commit extraordinary evil / Christophe Busch
- State deviancy and genocide : the state as a shelter and a prison / Kjell Anderson
- Hunting specters : paranoid purges in the Filipino communist guerrilla movement / Alex de Jong
- Smashing the enemies : the organization of violence in Democratic Kampuchea / Sandra Korstjens
- Sexual violence in the Nazi genocide : gender, law, and ideology / Franziska Karpinski and Elysia Ruvinsky
- Particularistic and integrative struggles over memory in Sarajevo / Laura Boerhout
- Ingando : re-educating the perpetrators in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide / Suzanne Hoeksema
- Unravelling atrocity : between transitional justice and history in Rwanda and Sierra Leone / Thijs B. Bouwknegt
- Epilogue / Philip Spencer.