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The complexity of evil : perpetration and genocide / Timothy Williams.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: HV6322.7 .W547 2021

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    "Why do people participate in genocide? The Complexity of Evil responds to this fundamental question by drawing on political science, sociology, criminology, anthropology, social psychology, and history to develop a model which can explain perpetration across various different cases. Focusing in particular on the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, The Complexity of Evil model draws on, systematically sorts, and causally orders a wealth of scholarly literature and supplements it with original field research data from interviews with former members of the Khmer Rouge. The model is systematic and abstract, as well as empirically grounded, providing a tool for understanding the micro-foundations of various cases of genocide. Ultimately this model highlights that the motivations for perpetrating genocide are both complex in their diversity and banal in their ordinariness and mundanity"-- Provided by publisher.
    Series
    Genocide, political violence, human rights series
    Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Williams, Timothy, 1987- author.
    Published
    New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
    Contents
    Introduction
    Complexity of evil : introducing the model
    Motivations
    Facilitative factors
    Contextual conditions
    Diversity, complexity, scope : discussing the model and its empirical application
    Conclusion.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Introduction -- Complexity of evil : introducing the model -- Motivations -- Facilitative factors -- Contextual conditions -- Diversity, complexity, scope : discussing the model and its empirical application -- Conclusion.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9781978814295
    1978814291
    9781978814301
    1978814305
    Physical Description
    ix, 266 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

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