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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Timothy, 1987-

Series:

Genocide, political violence, human rights.

Genocide, political violence, human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide.

Mass murder.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 266 pages : illustrations )

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Abbreviations

The Complexity of Evil

Introduction

Vignette I Chandara:

Chapter 1 The Complexity of Evil

Vignette II Sokong:

Chapter 2 Motivations

Vignette III Sokphary:

Chapter 3 Facilitative Factors

Vignette IV Sopheak: An Interrogator Searching to Unearth Enemy Strings

Chapter 4 Contextual Conditions

Vignette V Sokha:

Chapter 5 Diversity, Complexity, Scope

Vignette VI Ramy:

Conclusion

Appendix: List of Interviewees

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)

ISBN:

9781978814332

197881433X

OCLC:

1266228848

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access