Genocide : essays toward understanding, early-warning, and prevention / edited by Roger W. Smith.

"The essays in this collection were presented at conferences of the Association of Genocide Scholars in 1995 and 1997."--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Roger W. Smith -- Rwanda: the rationality of genocide / René Lemarchand -- Connecting threads: Rwanda, the Holocaust, and the pattern of contemporary genocide / Mark Levene -- Source, evidence, and authority: documenting the Armenian genocide against the background of denial / Rouben Adalian -- Forgotten atrocities: the 1937 genocidal Haitian massacre in the Dominican Republic / Edward Paulino -- The Nazi extermination of the gypsies / John P. Fox -- The bureaucracy of repression: a discussion of the Iraqi secret police files and the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, 1987-89 / Mia Bloom -- Preventing genocide: the case against Rwanda / Howard Adelman -- Radio broadcasting in the incitement and interdiction of gross violations of human rights including genocide / Frank Chalk -- The role of institution building in the prevention of genocide / Michael Freeman -- Thoughts about preventing genocide in the post-Cold War era/ Herbert Hirsch.