Scholars have long argued that dehumanization causes violence. However, others have
recently argued that those who harm do so because they feel pressured or view violence as …

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in
the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and …

This essay contends that contemporary research should pay greater attention to three
fundamentally human characteristics of dehumanization. First, we argue that scholars need …

This essay evaluates the current United Nations approach to preventing and punishing
genocide by considering micro-level research on behavioral variation in genocide and …

How do we understand ambiguous state activities? How do state actors interpret, use, and
produce ambiguous classifications? By asking what explains the simultaneous classification …

We examine the contribution of disadvantaged communities to protest and the creation of
social movement organizations (SMOs). While some view disadvantaged groups' …

State-centered approaches, which assign transformative capabilities to state-driven social
classification schemes, dominate census scholarship. Simply put, from this perspective …

In recent years, social scientists have “(re) discovered history” by visiting archives, collecting
documents, and analyzing their findings to address concerns about the causes and …

In the thirty-year period since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the country has grappled with
how to unify its citizens, prevent reprisal waves of violence, and promote forgiveness, with …

This chapter devotes itself to critically analysing how xenophobia and its variants mutated,
resulting in the Holocaust against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. The authors revisit the bitter …