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ISBN 13 : 9780896047167
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Download or read book Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Waller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190287527
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Becoming Evil written by James Waller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political or social groups wanting to commit mass murder on the basis of racial, ethnic or religious differences are never hindered by a lack of willing executioners. In Becoming Evil, social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller debunks the common explanations for genocide- group think, psychopathology, unique cultures- and offers a more sophisticated and comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes against humanity. He outlines the evolutionary forces that shape human nature, the individual dispositions that are more likely to engage in acts of evil, and the context of cruelty in which these extraordinary acts can emerge. Illustrative eyewitness accounts are presented at the end of each chapter. An important new look at how evil develops, Becoming Evil will help us understand such tragedies as the Holocaust and recent terrorist events. Waller argues that by becoming more aware of the things that lead to extraordinary evil, we will be less likely to be surprised by it and less likely to be unwitting accomplices through our passivity.
Author : James Waller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199300704
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Confronting Evil written by James Waller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book from one of the foremost leaders in the field presents a fascinating continuum of research-informed strategies to prevent genocide from ever taking place; to avert further atrocities once mass murder occurs; and to prevent further turmoil once a society learns how to rebuild itself.
Author : John G. Heidenrich
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book How to Prevent Genocide written by John G. Heidenrich and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genocide--the deliberate destruction, usually through mass murder, of an ethnic, racial or religious group--is the ultimate crime against humanity. Drawing upon a wide variety of disciplines, this study assesses ways to prevent this crime. While most books about genocide focus on the history of a particular event, such as the Holocaust, or compare case studies to derive empirical theories, this book outlines many practical aspects of genocide prevention. Heidenrich covers a broad spectrum of expert opinions, from Stanley Hoffmann to Henry Kissinger, as well as political opinions regarding genocide that range from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton. Topics include international law, humanitarian intervention, early warning measures, and the effectiveness of such methods as diplomacy, economic pressure, and nonviolent resistance. Preventing genocide in a tense socio-political environment is no easy task, but such prevention is easier and more cost-effective than trying to put an end to genocide once it is already occurring.
Author : William Schabas
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Preventing Genocide and Mass Killing written by William Schabas and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevention of genocide and mass killing is arguably the greatest moral imperative resting on the United Nations (UN). The Genocide Convention was one of the first human rights instruments to be adopted by the UN, along with the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. However, in the immediate post-Second World War climate, it was assumed that, at least in peacetime, what states did to their own peoples within their own frontiers was largely their own business. There has been considerable progress since then. The Outcome Document adopted at the UN summit in September 2005 underlines the responsibility of the international community to protect threatened populations, a responsibility to be met through peaceful means but also, if these prove inadequate, by taking collective action through the UN Security Council. Further, it reaffirms the principle that protecting minority rights contributes to states' stability and cultural diversity.
Author : Benjamin A. Valentino
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467160
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Final Solutions written by Benjamin A. Valentino and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass killing usually originates from a relatively small group of powerful leaders and is often carried out without the active support of broader society. Mass killing, in his view, is a brutal political or military strategy designed to accomplish leaders' most important objectives, counter threats to their power, and solve their most difficult problems. In order to capture the full scope of mass killing during the twentieth century, Valentino does not limit his analysis to violence directed against ethnic groups, or to the attempt to destroy victim groups as such, as do most previous studies of genocide. Rather, he defines mass killing broadly as the intentional killing of a massive number of noncombatants, using the criteria of 50,000 or more deaths within five years as a quantitative standard. Final Solutions focuses on three types of mass killing: communist mass killings like the ones carried out in the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia; ethnic genocides as in Armenia, Nazi Germany, and Rwanda; and "counter-guerrilla" campaigns including the brutal civil war in Guatemala and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Valentino closes the book by arguing that attempts to prevent mass killing should focus on disarming and removing from power the leaders and small groups responsible for instigating and organizing the killing.
Author : Sheri P. Rosenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107094968
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention written by Sheri P. Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proposes a new framework for atrocity prevention, featuring scholars from around the globe including three former UN special advisers.
Author : Charles H. Anderton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199378290
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention written by Charles H. Anderton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection by 41 accomplished scholars examines economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention. Chapters include numerous case studies (e.g., California's Yana people, Australia's Aborigines peoples, Stalin's killing of Ukrainians, Belarus, the Holocaust, Rwanda, DR Congo, Indonesia, Pakistan, Colombia, Mexico's drug wars, and the targeting of suspects during the Vietnam war), probing literature reviews, and completely novel work based on extraordinary country-specific datasets. Also included are chapters on the demographic, gendered, and economic class nature of genocide.
Author : Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786746564
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Worse Than War written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's books are events. They stir passionate public debate among political and civic leaders, scholars, and the general public because they compel people to rethink the most powerful conventional wisdoms and stubborn moral problems of the day. Worse Than War gets to the heart of the phenomenon, genocide, that has caused more deaths in the modern world than military conflict. In doing so, it challenges fundamental things we thought we knew about human beings, society, and politics. Drawing on extensive field work and research from around the world, Goldhagen explores the anatomy of genocide -- explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them, why they happen so frequently and how the international community should and can successfully stop them. As a great book should, Worse than War seeks to change the way we think and to offer new possibilities for a better world. It tells us how we might at last begin to eradicate this greatest scourge of humankind.
Author : Kerry Whigham
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978825579
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Resonant Violence written by Kerry Whigham and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.
Author : Michael N. Dobkowski
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815627449
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (274 download)
Download or read book The Coming Age of Scarcity written by Michael N. Dobkowski and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Dobkowski and Isidor Walliman have edited a book that, although ominous, is not a fatalistic look at the future. The Coming Age of Scarcity lays out the perils of not recognizing the reality of genocide or of acknowledging the full implications of warfare. Showing how scarcity and surplus populations can lead to disaster, The Coming Age of Scarcity is about evil. It tells of "ethnic cleansing" and excavates the world's expanding killing fields. The writers in this volume are all too aware that the future suggests that present-day population growth, land resources, energy consumption, and per capita consumption cannot be sustained without leading to greater catastrophes. The essays in this volume ask: What is the solution in the face of mass death and genocide? As philosopher John K. Roth says in the Foreword, "The essays can sensitize us against despair and indifference because history shows that human-made mass death and genocide are not inevitable, and no events related to them will ever be."
Author : Daniel Chirot
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400834856
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Why Not Kill Them All? written by Daniel Chirot and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genocide, mass murder, massacres. The words themselves are chilling, evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the eradication of thousands and even millions of unarmed human beings caught in the crossfire of political, cultural, or ethnic hostilities? This question lies at the heart of Why Not Kill Them All? Cowritten by historical sociologist Daniel Chirot and psychologist Clark McCauley, the book goes beyond exploring the motives that have provided the psychological underpinnings for genocidal killings. It offers a historical and comparative context that adds up to a causal taxonomy of genocidal events. Rather than suggesting that such horrors are the product of abnormal or criminal minds, the authors emphasize the normality of these horrors: killing by category has occurred on every continent and in every century. But genocide is much less common than the imbalance of power that makes it possible. Throughout history human societies have developed techniques aimed at limiting intergroup violence. Incorporating ethnographic, historical, and current political evidence, this book examines the mechanisms of constraint that human societies have employed to temper partisan passions and reduce carnage. Might an understanding of these mechanisms lead the world of the twenty-first century away from mass murder? Why Not Kill Them All? makes clear that there are no simple solutions, but that progress is most likely to be made through a combination of international pressures, new institutions and laws, and education. If genocide is to become a grisly relic of the past, we must fully comprehend the complex history of violent conflict and the struggle between hatred and tolerance that is waged in the human heart. In a new preface, the authors discuss recent mass violence and reaffirm the importance of education and understanding in the prevention of future genocides.
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 923100221X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Education about the Holocaust and preventing genocide written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman M. Naimark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836069
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Stalin's Genocides written by Norman M. Naimark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.
Author : Charles H. Anderton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107184207
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Principles of Conflict Economics written by Charles H. Anderton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the key themes and principles of conflict economics.
Author : Guenter Lewy
Publisher : University of Utah Press
ISBN 13 : 1607811871
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Essays on Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention written by Guenter Lewy and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strong collection of essays about mass murder and humanitarian intervention that is sure to incite discussion
Author : Leonard S. Newman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195133625
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Understanding Genocide written by Leonard S. Newman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When and why do groups target each other for extermination? How do seemingly normal people become participants in genocide? In these essays, social psychologists use the principles derived from contemporary research in their field to try to shed light on the behaviour of perpetrators of genocide.
