Confronting evil : engaging our responsibility to prevent genocide / James Waller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waller, James, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Prevention.

Genocide.

Social action.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking book from one of the foremost leaders in the field presents a fascinating continuum of research-informed strategies to prevent genocide from ever taking place; to avert further atrocities once mass murder occurs; and to prevent further turmoil once a society learns how to rebuild itself.

Contents:

Cover

Confronting Evil

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface: "Done to Death"

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "Offend Every Precept of Our Common Humanity"

Part I: Naming and Defining Genocide

1. "A Crime without a Name"

2. "By Their Rightful Name"

3. "By Our Words and Actions"

Part II: A Continuum of Prevention Strategies

4. Upstream Prevention Strategies: Avoiding "A Path to Hell"

5. Midstream Prevention Strategies: "Sometimes We Must Interfere"

6. Downstream Prevention Strategies: "This Is for Those Who Want Us to Forget"

Part III: Never Again?

Conclusion: "Thus Have We Made the World … Thus Have I Made It"

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-930072-0

0-19-930071-2

OCLC:

953456240