Genocide & Ethnic cleansing

Translates and annotates a rare eyewitness account of the 1915 Assyrian genocide during the First World War Set in the context of the failing Otto...

Throughout Yugoslavia during World War II, anti-Semitism was both deeply rooted and widespread. Raphael Israeli traces the circumstances and the hi...

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of coloni...

The question of 'humanitarian intervention' has been a staple of international law for around 200 years, with a renewed interest in the history of ...

Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Demo...

In The Geography of Injustice, Barak Kushner argues that the war crimes tribunals in East Asia formed and cemented national divides that persist in...

A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justiceJews and Roma died side by...

The Iraqi Bath states Anfal operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth centurys ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human....

On August 30, 1999, in a United Nations-sponsored ballot, East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia and for an end to a brutal military occu...

The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were kille...

Born of War in Colombia addresses why people born of conflict-related sexual violence remain unseen within transitional justice agendas. In Colombi...

This book examines the processes of symbolic cultivation of identity promoted by Armenian cultural elites in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, focusin...

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FARCHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2023A NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS EDITOR' S CHOICEH...

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among ...

In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indon...

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among ...

In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims ...

Hypocrisy and Human Rights examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work. Repressive states with absolutely no intention of comply...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, A...

A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States If many people were shocked by...

Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his firs...

In this sweeping, definitive work, historian David Crowe offers an unflinching account of the long and troubled history of genocide and war crimes....

Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of ...

Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and et...

Documents the history of Catholic activism to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during...

Documents the history of Catholic activism to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during...

The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule  Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times B...

In myriad ways, each narrators life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilienceand by the struggle of how to share space with settler nation...

As a child growing up in Cambodia, Ronnie Yimsut played among the ruins of the Angkor Wat temples, surrounded by a close-knit community. As the Khm...

The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. An Indigenous people from the Mesopotamian plains and highlands in what is now So...

The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. An Indigenous people from the Mesopotamian plains and highlands in what is now So...

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. So argues David Patrick in this essential new ...

Reports of sexual violence in armed conflict frequently appear in political discussions and news media, presenting a stark contrast to a long histo...

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revuls...

Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed. B...

Many Christians wrestle with biblical passages in which God commands the slaughter of the Canaanites - men, women, and children - and the book of J...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of ...

The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the witness to genocide in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist ...

Remembering Histories of Trauma compares and links Native American, First Nation and Jewish histories of traumatic memory. Using source material fr...

Winner of The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research 2023 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies. This bo...

The ignorant bystander: Britain and the Rwandan genocide uses a case study of Britain's response to the genocide to explore what factors motivate h...

The ignorant bystander: Britain and the Rwandan genocide uses a case study of Britain's response to the genocide to explore what factors motivate h...