By Katharine Fortin. Foreword by Andrew Clapham. Today the majority of the armed conflicts around the world are fought between States and armed groups, rather than between States. This changed conflict landscape creates an imperative to clarify the obligations of armed groups under international law. While it is generally accepted that armed groups are bound…

By Anne Applebaum.  In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead…

Edited by Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmüller. Translated from the German. On 20 January 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting only a few hours, the Wannsee Conference is today understood as a signal episode in…

By André Guichaoua. Translated by Don E. Webster, Foreword by Scott Straus. In April 1994 Rwanda exploded in violence, with political, social, and economic divisions most visible along ethnic lines of the Hutu and Tutsi factions. The ensuing killings resulted in the deaths of as much as 20 percent of Rwanda’s population. André Guichaoua, who…

Edited by Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Friederike Mieth and Marjana Papa This is an all-online edited volume. In lieu of a blurb here is an excerpt from the introduction: “Following World War II, a number of Germans responsible for heinous crimes were taken to court in the city of Nuremberg. In total, 22 people were tried by…

By James E. Mitchell & Bill Harlow. From August 2002 through January 2009, James E. Mitchell served as a contractor for the Central Intelligence Agency. He developed the program used to interrogate detainees in US custody in various secret CIA “black sites” around the world. In Enhanced Interrogation, Mitchell now offers a first-person account of…

Edited by James J. Hentz and Hussein Solomon. The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria. Boko Haram’s goal of an Islamic Caliphate, starting in the Borno State in the North East that will eventually cover the areas of the former Kanem-Borno Empire, is a…

By Annette Jansen. Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities. The question of who these anti-genocide activists are and what motivates them to call for the use of…

Edited by Paul Behrens, Olaf Jensen and Nicholas Terry. This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of their existence. Denial poses challenges to more than one…

By Antonio Miguez Macho. First published in October 2015, now available in paperback edition. The Francoist command in the Spanish Civil War carried out a programme of mass violence from the start of the conflict. Through a combination of death squads and the use of military trials around 150,000 Spaniards met their deaths. Others perished in…