Unravelling atrocity : between transitional justice and history in Rwanda and Sierra Leone / Philip Spencer. 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 & 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.
Summary:
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 so much culturally, technologically, and politically? That is the question that this collection addresses, offering a range of perspectives from different disciplines to attempt to understand the pervasiveness of genocidal violence.
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