This book offers a different approach to the structural prevention of mass atrocities. It investigates the conditions that enable vulnerable countries to prevent the perpetration of such violence. Structural prevention is commonly framed as the identifying and ameliorating of the 'root causes' of violent conflict, a process which typically involves international actors determining what these root causes are, and what the best courses of action are to deal with them. This overlooks why mass atrocities do not occur in countries that contain the presence of root causes. In fact, very little...
This book offers a different approach to the structural prevention of mass atrocities. It investigates the conditions that enable vulnerable countries...
This book addresses two closely related questions: what is the process by which the relatively short and violent genocides of the twentieth century and beyond have occurred? Why have these instances of mass violence been genocidal and not some other form of state violence, repression, or conflict?
Hiebert answers these questions by exploring the structures and processes that underpin the decision by political elites to commit genocide, focusing on a sustained comparison of two cases, the Nazi ' Final Solution' and the Cambodian genocide. The book clearly differentiates the...
This book addresses two closely related questions: what is the process by which the relatively short and violent genocides of the twentieth century...
Focusing on the relationship between the micro level of perpetrator motivation and the macro level normative discourse, this book offers an in-depth explanation for the perpetration of genocide. It is the first comparative criminological treatment of genocide drawn from substantial original field research and is based on interviews between perpetrators and the author. It provides fresh perspectives on the problem of genocide, as well as to existing criminological and genocide literature.
The book utilises scientific methods with the objective of gaining some degree of insight into...
Focusing on the relationship between the micro level of perpetrator motivation and the macro level normative discourse, this book offers an in-dept...
Last Lectures: The Prevention/Intervention of Genocide is an innovative collection of hypothetical 'last lectures' by some of the many top scholars and practitioners across the globe in the fields of human rights and genocide studies. Each lecture purportedly constitutes the last thing the author will ever say about the prevention and intervention of genocide.
The contributions to this volume are thought-provoking, engaging, and at times controversial, reflecting the scholars' most advanced thinking about issues of human rights and genocide.
This book will be of...
Last Lectures: The Prevention/Intervention of Genocide is an innovative collection of hypothetical 'last lectures' by some of the many top...
