Genocide & War Crimes

How can human beings kill or brutalise multitudes of other human beings? Focusing particularly on genocide, Erwin Staub explores the psychology of group aggression. He sketches a conceptual framework for the many influences on one group's desire to harm...

"An excellent introduction." * War in History "...the essays in this volume, individually and as a whole, represent for the English reader a valuable addition to scholarship on the emergence of genocidal policies." * Journal of...

Women war criminals are far more common than we think. From the Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans to the Rwandan genocide, women have perpetrated heinous crimes. Few have been punished. These women go unnoticed because their very existence...

Using more than a decade's worth of fieldwork in South Sudan, Clemence Pinaud here explores the relationship between predatory wealth accumulation, state formation, and a form of racism-extreme ethnic group entitlement-that has the potential to result in...

Winner of the Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2018 Winner of the Joseph Lepgold Prize Winner of the Best Books in Conflict Studies (APSA) Winner of the Best Book in Human Rights (ISA) In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus...

Shines long-overdue light on the heroic individuals who took action in the face of the Armenian genocide. This book tells the stories of the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others who made a courageous stand against the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJelena Golubovic is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Northeastern University.Book InformationISBN 9781512829013Author Jelena...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512829020Author Jelena GolubovićFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

We are, today, exposed to evidence of thousands of war crimes. Residential buildings bombed and burning in Ukraine, dead children being dug out of the rubble in Gaza, civilians beaten and starved by armies in Sudan, hospitals and refugee camps...

This book makes Aram Andonian's The Great Crime available for English language readers. The Great Crime served as the first systematic documentation of the Armenian Genocide, introducing the memoir of an Ottoman bureaucrat that contained handwritten...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765157015Author Alex AlvarezFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

This eye-opening book highlights the role of elites in constructing systems of persecution and extermination during the Holocaust. Being highly educated or living within a certain social class doesn't prevent us from being lured into destructive systems,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886971545Author Eric FreitagFormat HardbackPage Count 301Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 544g

Soviet Secret Police Chiefs, 1926-1953. Commissars of Fear is a combined edition of two works by Boris V. Sokolov, detailing the lives and careers of the six Soviet secret police heads from Dzerzhinskii to Abakumov. The book brings together The People's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990915879Author Russell W GlennFormat HardbackPage Count 532Imprint Keypoint PressPublisher Keypoint PressWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Terrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth-Century War and Genocide investigates interconnections between space and violence throughout the twentieth century, and how such connections informed collective memory. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891134072Author Timothy L. BeaversFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990915855Author Russell W GlennFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Keypoint PressPublisher Keypoint PressWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Armenian national identity has long been associated with what has come to be known as the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Immersing the reader in the history, culture and politics of Armenia - from its foundations as the ancient kingdom of Urartu to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765116067Author Professor Paul R. BartropFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

This book defines genocide, distinguishing it from mass murder, war crimes, and other atrocities; allows readers to grasp the magnitude of the crime of genocide across time and throughout human civilization; and facilitates an understanding of new and...

After the outbreak of the 2011 Syrian War, a number Syrian-Armenians who had lived in the territory for generations, fled to the Republic of Armenia. This book traces the experiences of Syrian-Armenian women as they navigated their changing and gendered...

Scherrer examines the ethnicized conflicts, periodic war, and genocide in Rwanda and Burundi. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda may have resulted in the murder of a million Tutsi and moderate Hutu, while the mass killings in Burundi, especially in 1993 when...

The tools of reason offer the best hope for the international community to confront the increasing incidents of hate throughout the world. A historically informed, normative examination of the elements of the crime of genocide provides an excellent case...

Without succumbing to utopian fantasies or realistic pessimism, Riemer and his contributors call for strengthening the key institutions of a global human rights regime, developing an effective policy of prudent prevention of genocide, working out a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorISIDOR WALLIMANN is Lecturer in sociology at the School of Social Work in Basel, Switzerland.MICHAEL N. DOBKOWSKI is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at...

Exploring one of the least studied genocides in post-conquest South America, Robins calls into question many of the central assumptions currently held by genocide scholars. Victims of genocide usually lack the organization and weaponry to battle their...

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...

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In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. Moreover, climate change continues to plow ahead,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263767Author Amrit WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838213989Author Aya FujiwaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

A rare and poignant testimony of a survivor of the Armenian genocide. The twentieth century was an era of genocide, which started with the Turkish destruction of more than one million Armenian men, women, and children-a modern process of total,...

Anthem of Misogyny: The War on Women in North Africa and the Middle East argues that misogyny-which operates through an interconnected network of ideologies, institutions, beliefs, aesthetics, and cultural trends-is too complex and too deep rooted to...

After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy of the mass violence. The government responded by creating a new version of a traditional grassroots justice system called gacaca. Bert...

How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence...

In the wake of unthinkable atrocities, it is reasonable to ask how any population can move on from the experience of genocide. Simply remembering the past can, in the shadow of mass death, be retraumatizing. So how can such momentous events be...

Born of War in Colombia addresses why people born of conflict-related sexual violence remain unseen within transitional justice agendas. In Colombia, there are generations of children born of conflict-related sexual violence across the country. Whispers...

Born of War in Colombia addresses why people born of conflict-related sexual violence remain unseen within transitional justice agendas. In Colombia, there are generations of children born of conflict-related sexual violence across the country. Whispers...