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Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed. But the question remains, if the main goal is death, then why is torture necessary? This book argues that genocide and mass atrocity are committed not as an end in themselves but as a means to pursue sustained and systemic torture — the spectacle of violence ...

A former United States Marine, hired by the African Union to monitor the cease-fire agreement between the Government of Sudan and Darfurian rebel groups, offers an account of the ongoing genecide in Darfur and criticizes the international community's failure to intervene. 1st ed. xix, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Bibliogr.: p. 87-95. IX, 95 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Met lit. opg. VI, 544 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Master thesis in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Amsterdam. 92 bladen. ; 30 cm.

"During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, women were subjected to sexual violence on a massive scale. These crimes were perpetrated by members of the infamous Hutu militia groups known as the Interahamwe, other civilians, and soldier of the Rwandan Armed Forces. Administrative, military and political leaders as well as heads of militia, directed or permitted the killings and sexual violence in an effort to ...

Bibliogr.: p. 323-340. X, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

2nd ed. xxxi, 65 p. : krt. ; 21 cm

"The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity, ' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments. Includes ...

"Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadžić, a Bosnian Serb former politician who had been indicted for genocide and other war crimes during the Bosnian War and who became an inspiration for white nationalists. Though Stern was used to interviewing terrorists in the field in an effort ...