Edited by Henrik Vigh and Steffen Jensen. What makes young men willing to risk their lives by enrolling in violent organizations? How do these organizations persuade young men to do so? In the age of radicalization, these questions are central to most debates about politics and globalization. Through long-term ethnographic fieldwork in various conflict settings,…

A new issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention is out, with contributions of network members. Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (GSP) is the official journal of The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). IAGS is a global, interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide,…

By Mary Fulbrook. A single word—”Auschwitz”—is sometimes used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust. Yet focusing on a single concentration camp, however horrific the scale of crimes committed there, leaves an incomplete story, truncates a complex history and obscures the continuing legacies of Nazi crimes. Mary…

By Caroline Williamson Sinalo. In the 1994 Rwanda genocide, around 1 million people were brutally murdered in just thirteen weeks. This book offers an in-depth study of posttraumatic growth in the testimonies of the men and women who survived, highlighting the ways in which they were able to build a new, and often enhanced, way…

By Saskia E. Wieringa and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana. In Indonesia, the events of 1st October 1965 were followed by a campaign to annihilate the Communist Party and its alleged sympathisers. It resulted in the murder of an estimate of one million people – a genocide that counts as one of the largest mass murders after WWII – and…

By Clare Bielby and Jeffrey Stevenson Murer. This volume explores violent perpetration in diverse forms from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. From National Socialist perpetration in the museum, through post-terrorist life writing to embodied performances of perpetration in cosplay, the collection draws upon a series of historical and geographical case studies, seen through the lens…

By Nestar Russell. Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram’s personal collection, volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to…

By Hans-Lukas Kieser. Talaat Pasha (1874–1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of modern Turkey. He was also the architect of the Armenian Genocide, which would result in the systematic extermination of more than a million people, and which set the stage for a…

By Siniša Malešević. Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows organised violence is, in fact, on the rise. Malešević demonstrates that violence is determined by organisational capacity, ideological penetration and micro-solidarity, rather than biological tendencies, meaning that despite pre-modern societies being exposed…

By Eva Lettermann. Die Autorin setzt sich sowohl fachwissenschaftlich, fachdidaktisch als auch familienbiografisch mit individuellem Täterhandeln im Nationalsozialismus auseinander. Die Motivation hierzu war die kritische Aufarbeitung der Biografie ihres Großonkels, eines NS-Verbrechers in den besetzten Niederlanden. Aufbauend auf den theoretischen Erkenntnissen konzipiert die Autorin ein Unterrichtsmodell zum historischen Lernen über die Shoah für den Geschichtsunterricht…