Little attention has been paid to the social processes of civil war—the transformation of
social actors, structures, norms, and practices—that sometimes leave enduring legacies for …

In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide
takes place—and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may …

The article critically reviews the existing literature on genocide and mass violence and
divides it according to different levels of analysis: macro, meso, and micro levels. We discuss …

Contrary to common assumption, major forms of large-scale organized political violence in
sub-Saharan Africa are declining in frequency and intensity, and the region is not uniquely …

That word is “genocide.” That word, in fact, is what Aboriginal people, elders, and Survivors
generally [use to] talk about the fact that, for many generations, they and their ancestors …

Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites
of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the …

In research on'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of
ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the …

The research problem driving this paper is the absence of a strong theory that accounts for
variation among cases that have similar probabilities of escalating to genocide and similar …

In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the
most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the …

Through powerful first-person accounts, scholarly analysis, and compelling narrative,
Century of Genocide details the causes and ramifications of the genocides perpetrated in …