Elazar Barkan - Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities

This book brings together a diverse range of international voices from academia, policymaking and civil society to address the failure to connect historical dialogue with atrocity prevention discourse and provide insight into how conflict histories and historical memory act as dynamic forces, actively facilitating or deterring current and future conflict.

Established on a variety of international case studies combining theoretical and practical points of view, the book envisions an integrated understanding of how historical dialogue can inform policy, education and the practice of atrocity prevention. In doing so, it provides a vital basis for the development of preventive policies sensitive to the importance of conflict histories and for further academic study on the topic.

It will be of interest to all scholars and students of history, psychology, peace studies, international relations and political science.

Elazar Barkan is Professor of International and Public Affairs, the Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration and of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, USA.

Constantin Goschler is Professor of Modern History at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

James E. Waller is Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Chair of that same department, at Keene State College, New Hampshire, USA.

Edited by Adam Jones

University of British Columbia in Kelowna, Canada

The Routledge Series in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity publishes cutting-edge research and reflections on these urgently contemporary topics. While focusing on political-historical approaches to genocide and other mass crimes, the series is open to diverse contributions from the social sciences, humanities, law, and beyond. Proposals for both sole-authored and edited volumes are welcome.

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Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities

Edited by Elazar Barkan, Constantin Goschler and James E. Waller

For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Genocide-and-Crimes-against-Humanity/book-series/RSGCH

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Elazar Barkan is Professor of International and Public Affairs, Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration at Columbias School of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, USA.

Constantin Goschler is Professor of Modern History at the Ruhr-University Bochum. His research interests focus on restitution, transitional justice and memory, on the transition of societies from dictatorship to democracy, but also on bio politics and intelligence services. From 20072011, he conducted an international historical commission on the history of the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future. He is the author of five books, most notably Schuld und Schulden. Die Politik der Wiedergutmachung fr NS-Verfolgte seit 1945 (2nd edition 2008). He has also edited 14 books, among them Compensation in Practice. The Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future and the Legacy of Forced Labour During the Third Reich (2017).

James E. Waller is Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Chair of that same department, at Keene State College (New Hampshire, US). He is the author of five books, most notably his award-winning book Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (2nd ed., 2007) and Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide (2016). His sixth book, A Troubled Sleep: Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland, is scheduled for release in early 2020. Waller has held numerous visiting professorships, most recently as an honorary visiting research professor at the George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Justice and Security at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland (2017). In the policymaking arena, Waller is also regularly involved, in his role as Director of Academic Programs with the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, as the curriculum developer and lead instructor for the Raphael Lemkin Seminars for Genocide Prevention. These seminars, held on-site and in conjunction with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, introduce diplomats and government officials from around the world to issues of genocide warning and prevention. In 2017, Waller was the inaugural recipient of the Engaged Scholarship Prize from the International Association of Genocide Scholars in recognition of his exemplary engagement in advancing genocide awareness and prevention.