GENOCIDE MATTERS
This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas:
- The current state of research on genocide
- New thinking on the categories and methods of mass violence
- Developments in teaching about genocide
- Critical analyses of military humanitarian interventions and post-violence justice and reconciliation.
The combination of important scholarship and innovative approaches to familiar subjects makes this essential reading for all students and scholars in the field of genocide studies.
Joyce Apsel is a faculty member in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University and was a recipient of the 2009 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award. She was President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (200103) and is currently President of the Institute for the Study of Genocide. She is Director of RightsWorks International, a human rights and genocide educational initiative.
Ernesto Verdeja is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. Verdeja is on the boards of the Institute for the Study of Genocide and the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
GENOCIDE MATTERS
Ongoing issues and emerging perspectives
Edited by Joyce Apsel and Ernesto Verdeja
First published 2013
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Genocide matters: ongoing issues and emerging perspectives/edited by Joyce Apsel & Ernesto Verdeja.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Genocide. I. Apsel, Joyce Freedman, 1945- II. Verdeja, Ernesto.
HV6322.7.G4554 2013
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CONTENTS
Joyce Apsel and Ernesto Verdeja
Maureen S. Hiebert
Alexander L. Hinton
Donald Bloxham
Roger W. Smith
Sheri P. Rosenberg and Everita Silina
Joyce Apsel
Paul D. Williams
Ernesto Verdeja
Joyce Apsel is a faculty member in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University and was a recipient of the 2009 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award. She was President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (200103) and is currently President of the Institute for the Study of Genocide. She is Director of RightsWorks International, a human rights and genocide educational initiative. Research interests include comparative genocide, pedagogy, and peace studies. Her works include: The Complexity of Genocide in Darfur: Historical Perspective and Ongoing Processes of Destruction (2009); and Museums for Peace: Past, Present and Future (2009) co-edited with Ikuro Anzai and Syed Sikander Mehdi.
Donald Bloxham is Professor of History at Edinburgh University. He is author, inter alia, of The Final Solution: A Genocide (Oxford University Press, 2009); The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford University Press, 2005); Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2001); and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Helen Fein is Board Chairperson of the Institute for the Study of Genocide (ISG), former Executive Director of the ISG and Founding President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. She is the author and editor of eleven books and monographs on genocide, collective violence, antisemitism and collective altruism, including two prize-winning works, Accounting for Genocide: National Responses and Jewish Victimization During the Holocaust (1979) and Genocide: A Sociological Perspective (1993). She is an Associate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a member of the International Genocide Prevention Advisory Network.
Maureen S. Hiebert is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law and Society and Fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary. She has published works on the role of identity construction and genocidal elite decision-making, comparative genocide theory, and genocide prevention. Hiebert is also a faculty member of the Genocide and Human Rights University Program summer school teaching units on comparative genocide theory and the Cambodian genocide.
Alexander L. Hinton is the Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights, and Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (University of California Press, 2005) and six edited or co-edited collections. He is currently working on several other book projects, including a book on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. He is President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (201113) and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (201112). In recognition of his work on genocide, the American Anthropological Association selected Hinton as the recipient of the 2009 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology.
Sheri P. Rosenberg is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, and Director of the Human Rights and Genocide Clinic, at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, New York City. She was selected as one of two US lawyers to work for the Human Rights Chamber, a quasi-international court established under the Dayton Peace Agreement, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was a recipient of a Human Rights Fellowship at Columbia University where she worked for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Policy Branch. She is Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide.
