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My research into the causes of genocide has led me to understand that there is no single explanation for what causes genocide. Rather, there are multitudes of reasons that are ....
The Cultural History of Genocide Volume 1: The Ancient World
"Causes of Genocide"2021 •
Since its inception, the focus of genocide studies has been on modern times. Even though this has sadly provided more than enough examples of genocides, such a limited time frame could potentially inhibit scholarly study of the topic. This article seeks to broaden the horizons of genocide studies by looking at the ancient Near East. However, for a variety of reasons, discussing the causes of genocide in the ancient Near East is a complicated task (the meaning of genocide will be discussed later in the chapter). At a basic level, the historical facts themselves are often poorly preserved and contested due to biased sources. More broadly, the way of thinking in the ancient Near East is very different from modern conceptions, especially when it comes to the most central cultural values and the method of identifying groups. We will begin by surveying several events in the ancient Near East involving either deaths of civilians or massacres of a particular group that could be considered genocide before moving on to think about whether they should be identified as genocide and the causes of these genocide-type events in the ancient Near East in general.
A brief essay on the causes of Genocide, through the examination of Germany and Armenia in the 20th century
Anthropology paper, first version dated 1995, examines motives and paradigms in attempt to remedy a historical and contemporary problem
Sociologias Plurais
Genocide: Perspectives from the Social SciencesThis article surveys risk factors for genocide and genocide prevention from the perspectives of four social science disciplines: sociology, social psychology, politicalcscience, and economics. Each discipline brings a valuable set of concepts and tools to bear in genocide research. More over, fruitful multi- and inter-disciplinary collaboration across the four disciplines (and other fields) is shedding new insights into why genocidehas have been such a recurring tragedy in human affairs and how such atrocities can be prevented.
Why do genocides occur? This paper applies qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to revisit this question, and analyses 139 cases of genocide and non-genocide. The paper demonstrates the importance of both priming, contextual conditions which provide a political opportunity structure conducive to genocide, as well as triggering, more proximate conditions which constitute immanent motivations. Most centrally, sufficiency is demonstrated for genocide occurrence when an autocratic regime and the salience of an elite's ethnicity are present, and are combined with either an exclusionary ideology or political upheaval. As such, the autocratic nature of the state provides an opportunity structure allowing genocide to occur, while the salience of elite ethnicity can serve as a motivation. Finally, the ideology and the political upheaval serve as an additional motivation or opportunity structure, respectively. While political upheaval can play a part in causing genocide, its role is much more understated than is suggested in previous literature.
Peace and Conflict
(1999). The origins and prevention of genocide, mass killing1999 •
Difficult life conditions give rise to scapegoating and ideologies that identify enemies and lead a group to turn against another. Conflict between groups and self-interest are additional instigators of group violence. Discrimination and limited violence change individuals and ...
Course Description: This course is a seminar exploration of the modern history of human rights, humanitarianism, and war crimes, conducted through the examination of several cases of mass violence, some of which have come to be labeled “genocide.” The class will first consider genocide in world history, then the rise of “human rights” and humanitarian activism since the 19th century founding of the Red Cross. The class will then interrogate the evolution of the terms “war crimes” and “genocide,” their technical meaning in international case law, and reported abuse of the term “genocide” to further state and group interests. Following such theoretical orientation, students present the literature covering several outbreaks of systemic violence. During this course we explore how engaged activists, diplomats, and historians think about, analyze, and interpret such violence; discuss the nature of our historical knowledge; and evaluate different theories that ground our views of such violence. Towards the beginning of the course, we will visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in order to explore in greater depth one of the more renowned cases of mass violence.
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