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Book SynopsisAfter 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania’s decision to allow its Jews to leave was baldly practical: Israel paid for them, and Romania wanted influence in the Middle East. For its part, Israel was rescuing a community threatened by economic and cultural extinction and at the same time strengthening itself with a massive infusion of new immigrants.In this thoroughly updated edition, Radu Ioanid traces the secret history of the longest and most expensive ransom arrangement in recent times, a hidden exchange that lasted until the fall of the Communist regime. Drawing on a wealth of oral testimonies, recently declassified documents from the archives of the Romanian secret police, and newly available material from the government archives of Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, and Germany, Ioanid follows Israel’s long and expensive ransom arrangement with Communist Romania. He uncovers the elaborate mechanisms that made it successful for decades, the shadowy figures responsible, and the secret channels of communication and payment. The book sheds new light on Romania’s pre-fascist and fascist antisemitic legislation and its implementation. Ioanid explores in greater detail the physical destruction of Romania’s Jewish and Roma communities, including the pogroms of Bucharest and Iasi as well as the deportations and the massacres from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria. New chapters consider the forced labor of the Jews, persecution by the Protestant churches, and the decision-making process of the Antonescu government in its treatment of Jews and Roma. As suspenseful as a Cold-War thriller, his book tells the full, startling story of an unprecedented slave trade and its origins.

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Book SynopsisGenocide has become a part of the contemporary global expression of political violence. After all, every continent has had its genocide, but genocide in Africa and the African diaspora is distinctly different from those in Europe or the West. This text approaches genocide from within the context of Africa and the African diaspora to examine political and philosophical after-effects of global colonialism.As genocidal state violence has become prominent through colonialism, its appearance in Europe and the West have developed sharply against how it appears in colonized spaces largely within the African diaspora. This text argues that such a difference needs to develop new concepts, critical approaches, and perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and environmentalism that develops the significance framing political violence as genocidal for the development of a global understanding of genocide and genocidal violence.Table of ContentsEditor’s IntroductionCh. 1: Remembering for Better Healing: A Survivor’s Account of the 1972 Burundi Genocide Jeanine NtihiragezaCh. 2: Burundi 1972: Remembering a Forgotten GenocideRené LemarchandCh. 3: Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric and Patterns of Genocide Denial in Zimbabwe Chielozona EzeCh. 4: American Slavery, The New Jim Crow, and GenocideLissa SkitolskyCh. 5: The ‘Post-Conflict State’ in Africa: Challenging the Continued Normalization of Genocidal ViolencePatricia DaleyCh. 6: Rwandan Commemoration Discourse and Post-Genocidal ViolenceAlfred FrankowskiCh. 7: Environmental Racism as Genocide: A Case Study of Shell Bluff, GeorgiaMilanika S. TurnerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisGenocide has become a part of the contemporary global expression of political violence. After all, every continent has had its genocide, but genocide in Africa and the African diaspora is distinctly different from those in Europe or the West. This text approaches genocide from within the context of Africa and the African diaspora to examine political and philosophical after-effects of global colonialism.As genocidal state violence has become prominent through colonialism, its appearance in Europe and the West have developed sharply against how it appears in colonized spaces within the African diaspora. This text argues that such a difference in orientation is needed to develop new concepts, critical approaches, and perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and anti-black politics as a way of critically understanding global genocide and the presence of continual genocidal violence. Trade ReviewCritical Perspectives on African Genocide ~ a suspenseful, one-of-a-kind collection of compelling testimonies by a team of brave African and pro-Africa scholars who fearlessly dare to expose the partiality of the western-dominated International Community, which adamantly refuses to assign the “genocide” label to acts of barbaric violence perpetrated against African people in Africa and black diasporas, thus endorsing the ugly and racist notion that Black lives do not matter. -- Immaculee Harushimana, Lehman CollegeCritical Perspectives on African Genocide is a powerful and groundbreaking work that is certain to shift the paradigm currently informing scholarship on genocide. Its power lies not only in the innovative and nuanced approach to genocide throughout the chapters, but also in its framing, which brings into conversation genocidal processes in Africa and in the African Diaspora, including, importantly, in the United States. It offers a long-overdue analysis of the intersections between colonialism, slavery, anti-black racism, and genocide that is a welcome corrective to discourses that have marginalized and exiled black experiences from the canon. It is a must read for anyone concerned with better understanding and responding to the crime. -- Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Endowed Chair, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State CollegeA brilliant gift for desperate times, Critical Perspectives on African Genocide develops critical language and analyzes communities and societies reeling under the legacies of genocide, slavery, and (neo)colonialism. This essential reading builds upon and beyond the 1951 We Charge Genocide petition to the world which defined and challenged the US as a genocidal, imperial state. We need Critical Perspectives to better comprehend, and change, the world we have inherited. -- Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch professor of the humanities, Williams College, and author of 'The Womb of Western Theory'Table of ContentsEditor’s IntroductionCh. 1: Remembering for Better Healing: A Survivor’s Account of the 1972 Burundi Genocide Jeanine NtihiragezaCh. 2: Burundi 1972: Remembering a Forgotten GenocideRené LemarchandCh. 3: Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric and Patterns of Genocide Denial in Zimbabwe Chielozona EzeCh. 4: American Slavery, The New Jim Crow, and GenocideLissa SkitolskyCh. 5: The ‘Post-Conflict State’ in Africa: Challenging the Continued Normalization of Genocidal ViolencePatricia DaleyCh. 6: Rwandan Commemoration Discourse and Post-Genocidal ViolenceAlfred FrankowskiCh. 7: Environmental Racism as Genocide: A Case Study of Shell Bluff, GeorgiaMilanika S. TurnerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAnthem of Misogyny: The War on Women in North Africa and the Middle East argues that misogyny—which operates through an interconnected network of ideologies, institutions, beliefs, aesthetics, and cultural trends—is too complex and too deep rooted to eradicate with superficial changes. Like a national anthem, misogyny in North Africa and the Middle East has acquired a sacred status. It is accepted uncritically and woven effortlessly into daily practices, creating a community of men of different ages, educational levels, and socioeconomic backgrounds who are united in their sense of entitlement to evaluate, scrutinize, deter, question, and expose women. For women, it is as if they are in a state of perpetual war, forever on the verge of being accused of deviating from the norms and being punished. These norms, however, are neither clear nor predictable. This study of misogyny is written against a dominant orthodoxy in Western feminism. Critics are accused of gendered orientalism, savior complexes, and even Islamophobia if they dare to bring up misogyny and gender-based violence in North Africa and the Middle East in contexts other than blaming the West. Rather than exaggerate Western agency, this book is invested in making Muslim agency visible. There are narratives of violence and injustice that produce discomfort, anger, and even despair. These stories deserve to be told, and those behind the injustices are entitled to an unapologetic portrayal because the non-West, too, is deserving of feminist critique.

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Book SynopsisUnstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity—ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies and heighten the risk of mass violence.Drawing on a number of recent and historic examples, including Darfur, Syria, and the current migration crisis, this book illustrates the thorny intersections of climate change and violence. The author doesn’t claim causation but makes a compelling case that changing environmental circumstances can be a critical factor in facilitating violent conflict. As research suggests climate change will continue and accelerate, understanding how it might contribute to violence is essential in understanding how to prevent it.Trade ReviewAlvarez, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northern Arizona University, examines climate change and its effect on conflicts in this thoughtful academic volume. He argues that the pressing issue regarding climate change is the role it plays in ‘helping create certain kinds of conflict,’ particularly ‘communal and ethnic violence, war, and genocide.’ Alvarez lays out a few ways in which environmental shifts can affect populations and occasionally lead to famine and war. He cites as an example the record heat waves that struck India and Pakistan in the summer of 2016, which melted pavement and killed over 1,000 people. Alvarez also discusses access to natural resources such as wood, oil, and gas, explaining that they ‘allow a state to meet the basic survival needs of its citizens.’ Water, Alvarez notes, is often taken for granted in industrialized nations ‘where cheap and apparently endless supplies of fresh water are readily available.’ He writes of the massive drought that ravaged Syria from 2006–2011 and bears some responsibility for the subsequent conflict there. On the flip side, populations are equally threatened by flooding rivers and rising sea levels. Alvarez’s thoughtful and precise work highlights some deeply troubling but underdiscussed aspects of climate change. * Publishers Weekly *Beginning with his hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona, Alvarez then moves around the globe to show how the local and global need to be thought of together with regard to climate change, violence, and death. This approach is, essentially, one significant path towards acknowledging the severity and pervasiveness of some of the globe’s most vital and pressing issues, as well as one that often blocks the way for many people who see nothing wrong at home and therefore see no tie to the broader global community. The book is an extended exercise for the author to come to terms with some of today's most monumental issues. Alvarez is not making the case for the existence of climate change or humanity’s causal relationship to it. These are scientific facts that form the background of the book and need no further explanation or expansion. Instead, the author investigates how humanity will potentially deal with this clear and present danger. An intriguing work that explores an existential crisis without existentialism, for those willing to confront some ugly truths about humanity.Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. * CHOICE *Unstable Ground provides a guide to understanding the many and varied implications of climate change—including environmental destruction, mass migration, and dissolution of established borders; the need to rethink issues of national security; and the existential question of life on planet Earth—if there is not enough action now to stem the self-inflicted wound. Alvarez’s timely book is essential reading for citizens, policy makers, and scholars. -- Roger W. Smith, College of William & MaryAlvarez has written one of the first, and most assuredly the best, analyses of the connection between climate change and genocide. As one of the top genocide scholars, he has combined his in-depth knowledge of that subject with the most important and up-to-date research on climate change. Alvarez is not afraid to confront the possible connection between future political violence and the changing environment on our planet. His analysis is a warning that must be heeded by policy makers from both industrialized and less industrialized countries. -- Herbert Hirsch, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityClimate change, the critical defining catastrophe of our time, is simultaneously a scientific and a human concern. In this pathbreaking volume, Alvarez has combined a number of approaches to the core issue in order to show just what this will portend for the future—a future in which violence, genocide, and population collapse are entirely likely unless the means can be found to address the slide towards disaster. This is a thought-provoking and terrifying book that nonetheless offers us some measure of hope . . . if only we pay heed to its message. -- Paul R. Bartrop, Florida Gulf Coast UniversityIn this highly engaging multidisciplinary volume, Alvarez explores the central issue of our time—the causes and far-reaching consequences of human-induced climate change. Drawing on his own deep expertise as a genocide studies scholar, Alvarez takes us on an at times harrowing tour of the role climate change is already playing—and will increasingly play—in producing and shaping violent conflicts, atrocities, and refugee flows around the globe. Of interest to both scholars and informed citizens, Alvarez’s book clearly sets out the enormous challenges facing all of us, while offering hope that we can take substantive steps to confront this unprecedented threat to humanity and the planet that is our one and only home. -- Maureen S. Hiebert, University of CalgaryMany of the major human rights issues of our time, including migration, armed conflict, and access to water, have important links to climate change, as Alex Alvarez shows in this compelling account. He connects many of the dots to explain the origins, at least in part, of the scourge of genocide and crimes against humanity today. -- William A. Schabas, Middlesex University, LondonIn the highest tradition of the public intellectual, Alex Alvarez has produced a first-rate research work that is accessible to readers at every level and puts focus on a crucial dimension of human-caused global warming. His compelling analysis is that the dominant form of mass human violence in the twenty-first century will be (and already has been) driven by climate change. His book makes clear that the question facing us now is not whether these pressures will come, but how humanity will face them. This book is an absolute must-read for all policy makers, concerned citizens, and scholars. -- Henry C. Theriault, Worcester State University; founding co-editor of Genocide Studies InternationalTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Making Sense of Climate ChangeChapter 2: On the Origins of Violent Conflict: War and the Genocidal ImpulseChapter 3: Linking Climate Change and ConflictChapter 4: Water, Violent Conflict, and GenocideChapter 5: Forced Displacement and Borders in a Warming WorldChapter 6: Preventing Conflict and Building Resilience

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Book SynopsisAnthem of Misogyny: The War on Women in North Africa and the Middle East argues that misogynywhich operates through an interconnected network of ideologies, institutions, beliefs, aesthetics, and cultural trendsis too complex and too deep rooted to eradicate with superficial changes. Like a national anthem, misogyny in North Africa and the Middle East has acquired a sacred status. It is accepted uncritically and woven effortlessly into daily practices, creating a community of men of different ages, educational levels, and socioeconomic backgrounds who are united in their sense of entitlement to evaluate, scrutinize, deter, question, and expose women. For women, it is as if they are in a state of perpetual war, forever on the verge of being accused of deviating from the norms and being punished. These norms, however, are neither clear nor predictable. This study of misogyny is written against a dominant orthodoxy in Western feminism. Critics are accused of gendered orientalism, savior complexes, and even Islamophobia if they dare to bring up misogyny and gender-based violence in North Africa and the Middle East in contexts other than calling it a Western-created issue. Rather than exaggerate Western agency, this book is invested in making Muslim agency visible. There are narratives of violence and injustice that produce discomfort, anger, and even despair. These stories deserve to be told, and those behind the injustices are entitled to an unfiltered portrayal because the non-West, too, is deserving of unapologetic feminist critique.

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Book SynopsisIn 1994 one of the worst genocides in human history took place in Rwanda—more than one million people were killed in 100 days. Each chapter in The Hope That Remains focuses on a Rwandan survivor and the journey to escape the violence and chaos that overtook their country. Two of the featured stories follow individuals who fled before the killing began and the events that caused them to flee. Both were then faced with the challenge of being outsiders looking in as events deteriorated and their families were slaughtered. The other eight survivors share their detailed and gripping experiences of trying to stay alive while trapped in a nation of killers. Twenty-five years after the Rwandan Genocide, the scars are still very real, and rebuilding and coping with the trauma remains an emotional struggle. Despite their horrific pasts, the survivors share feelings of hope, forgiveness, and a belief in a better future. They demonstrate the strength and courage it takes to leave behind the known to seek a better life in a new country. Their journeys to Canada contain humorous moments, thoughtful insights, and an overwhelming love and pride for the nation they now call home.

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Book SynopsisThe first edition of The Morality of War was one of the most widely-read and successful books ever written on the topic. In this second edition, Brian Orend builds on the substantial strengths of the first, adding important new material on: cyber-warfare; drone attacks; the wrap-up of Iraq and Afghanistan; conflicts in Libya and Syria; and protracted struggles (like the Arab-Israeli conflict). Updated and streamlined throughout, the book offers new research tools and case studies, while keeping the winning blend of theory and history featured in the first edition. This book remains an engaging and comprehensive examination of the ethics, and practice, of war and peace in today’s world.Trade ReviewThe Morality of War takes the reader from the Greco-Roman period to contemporary ethical challenges associated with cyberwar and terrorism. This book is approachable and enjoyable for anyone—students, scholars, and soldiers—interested in the nexus of morality and conflict." - Eric Patterson, author of Ending War Well and editor of Ethics Beyond War’s End"The decision to go to war is the ultimate moral challenge for leaders and citizens alike. Can war ever be justified? If so, how? This book illuminates the broad sweep of ideas, values and experiences that comprise the just war tradition. This second edition provides up-to-date examples of how age-old moral rules are being applied and tested in the twenty-first century. War is still a central element of the human experience. But Orend shows us that the use of force continues to be regulated by well-recognized and widely-accepted standards of morality and accountability." - Joel H. Rosenthal, President, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs"Brian Orend is unquestionably the most original, thoughtful, lucid and comprehensive writer on the just war tradition since Michael Walzer. The first edition of The Morality of War (2006) was path-breaking in its systematic coverage of the history of moral debates about war and peace in Western and non-Western cultural traditions, integrating thoughtful moral reflection with the major precepts of international humanitarian law pertaining to the declaration, prosecution, and concluding aftermath of armed conflicts. The new edition of this remarkable book now incorporates some of the most vexing recent ethical challenges arising from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, about which the author himself has made numerous substantive contributions. These include controversies over torture and interrogation, the right of individuals to resist fighting in unjust or illegal wars, “R2P” and the duties of states to assist victims of genocide, the prospects for pre-emptive military actions to prevent terrorist conspiracies, and the increasing pursuit of armed conflict through reliance on exotic military technologies, ranging from unmanned systems to cyber warfare. This splendid new edition is easily the most important work in its field in a generation." - George R. Lucas, Professor of Ethics & Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School"The Morality of War is a fine book. It is thorough and comprehensive in its treatment of issues, well researched, well organized, thoughtful, and beautifully written. This book fully instructs on the different aspects of just war theory as well as the manner in which the latter relates to rival approaches to war and peace. But the most striking feature of this book is its originality, manifest in the way the author has enriched the just war tradition by merging new challenges of the twenty-first century with perennial issues." - Jean-Marie Makang, Frostburg State UniversityPraise for the first edition:"Brian Orend has written a wonderfully lucid and bravely innovative account of just war theory." - Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton"Brian Orend has written an ideal introduction to the morality of war: engaging, accessible, comprehensive, historically informed and bang up to date. Here are all the major issues, sensitively discussed with the aid of vivid case studies and examples. Of particular importance is Orend’s work on jus post bellum—justice after war—and his discussion of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the broader ‘war on terror.’ This book deserves to be read by all those with an interest in the dilemmas of war and international relations.” — David Rodin, Oxford University"If one were looking for a single book to provide a comprehensive discussion of just war theory, an analysis of the deep moral principles that ground the theory, an examination of the theory applied to real-world scenarios, and an assessment of the role of just war theory in our era, this would be the book." - Daniel S. Zupan, United States Military AcademyTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part One Just War Theory and International Law A Sweeping History of Just War Theory Jus ad Bellum #1: Resisting Aggression Jus ad Bellum #2: Non-Classical Wars Jus in Bello #1: Just Conduct in War Jus in Bello #2: Supreme Emergency and Cyber-warfare Jus post Bellum #1: Overlapping Consensus, and Retribution Jus post Bellum #2: Rehabilitation, and Wars-Without-End Part Two The Alternatives Evaluating the Realist Alternative Evaluating the Pacifist Alternative Conclusion Appendix A: Sources on the Laws of War Appendix B: Conceptual Overview of Just War Theory Index

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Book SynopsisEXPERT ANALYSIS OF AN ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL PRACTICE The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected terrorists; the Obama administration assassinates them. Assassination, or targeted killing, off the battlefield not only causes more resentment against the United States, it is also illegal. In this interdisciplinary collection, human rights and political activists, policy analysts, lawyers and legal scholars, a philosopher, a journalist and a sociologist examine different aspects of the U.S. policy of targeted killing with drones and other methods. It explores the legality, morality and geopolitical considerations of targeted killing and resulting civilian casualties, and evaluates the impact on relations between the United States and affected countries. The book includes the documentation of civilian casualties by the leading non-governmental organization in this area; stories of civilians victimized by drones; an analysis of the first U.S. targeted killing lawsuit by the lawyer who brought the case; a discussion of the targeted killing cases in Israel by the director of PCATI which filed one of the lawsuits; the domestic use of drones; and the immorality of drones using Just War principles. Contributors include: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Phyllis Bennis, Medea Benjamin, Marjorie Cohn, Richard Falk, Tom Hayden, Pardiss Kebriaei, Jane Mayer, Ishai Menuchin, Jeanne Mirer, John Quigley, Dr. Tom Reifer, Alice Ross, Jay Stanley, and Harry Van der Linden.

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Book Synopsis Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by examining the intersection between religion and state-organized murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series of descrete, yet closely related case studies, that shed light on three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of atrocity.Table of Contents Part I: The Perpetrators: Theology and Practice Part II: Survival: Rescuers and Victims Part III: Aftermath: Politics, Faith, and Representation

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Book Synopsis Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by examining the intersection between religion and state-organized murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series of descrete, yet closely related case studies, that shed light on three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of atrocity.Table of Contents Part I: The Perpetrators: Theology and Practice Part II: Survival: Rescuers and Victims Part III: Aftermath: Politics, Faith, and Representation

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Book SynopsisFormer United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience using email, audio journals, notebook after notebook and nearly 1,000 photographs. Gretchen Steidle Wallace, his sister, who wrote this book with Brian, corresponded with him throughout his time in Darfur. Fired upon, taken hostage, a witness to villages destroyed and people killed, frustrated by his mission's limitations and the international community's reluctance to intervene, Steidle resigned and has since become an advocate for the world to step in and stop this genocide. The Devil Came on Horseback depicts the tragic impact of an Arab government bent on destroying its black African citizens, the maddening complexity of international inaction in response to blatant genocide, and the awkward, yet heroic transformation of a formerMarine turned humanitarian. It is a gripping and moving memoir that bears witness to atrocities we have too long averted our eyes from, and reveals that the actions of just one committed person have the power to change the world.

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Book SynopsisSasun, a region of Anatolia formerly under Ottoman rule and today part of eastern Turkey, is frequently described as the site where, in 1894, the Turks massacred large numbers of Armenian Christians, with estimates ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 people. News reports at the time detailed that gruesome acts, including torture, had occurred at Sasun at the hands of the Ottoman army. The Ottoman Empire denied these allegations. A commission of European delegates sent to investigate the matter concluded that the news reports were highly exaggerated, yet the original stories of atrocities have persisted. This volume provides a close examination of the historical evidence to shed light on what happened at Sasun. The authors’ research indicates that the stories circulated by the media of torture and murder in Sasun don’t hold up against the findings of the European investigators. Evidence instead shows that an Armenian revolt led to fights with local Kurds and many fewer deaths, on both sides, and that the conflict had largely subsided before the arrival of the Ottoman army.Trade Review"The book is a serious, scholarly endeavor that…will be very useful for the scholars and public interested in Ottoman history, the Armenian problem and relations between different ethnic and religious groups. It stands above existing books dealing with the Sasun incident and similar events."—Kemal H. Karpat, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The Politicization of Islam and The Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey

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Book SynopsisSyria has been at the center of world news since 2011, following the beginnings of a popular uprising in the country and its subsequent violent and murderous repression by the Assad regime. Eight years on, Joseph Daher analyzes the resilience of the regime and the failings of the uprising, while also taking a closer look at the counter revolutionary processes that have been undermining the uprising from without and within.

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Book SynopsisTerrortimes, Terrorscapes: Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory in Twentieth-Century War and Genocide investigates interconnections between space and violence throughout the twentieth century, and how such connections informed collective memory. The interdisciplinary volume shows how entangled notions of time and space amplified by memory narratives led to continuities of violence across different conflicts creating "terrortimes" and "terrorscapes" in their wake. The volume examines such continuities of violence with the help of an analytical framework built around different themes. Its first part, spatial and temporal continuities of violence, looks at contested spaces and ideas of national, ethnic, or religious homogeneity that are often at the heart of prolonged conflicts. The second part, on states and actors, addresses the role of states as enablers of violence, asymmetric power dynamics, and the connection between imperialism and genocide in Africa. Imagination and emotion—the focus of the third part—explores utopian visions and their limits that instigate or hinder, and the mobilization of emotion through propaganda. Finally, the fourth part shows how the recollection of the past sometimes triggers new terrortimes. Departing from an understanding of violence limited to certain areas and time frames, this volume describes continuities of violence as overlapping fabrics woven together from notions of space, time, and memory.Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction. Terrortimes and Terrorscapes? Rethinking Continuities of Space, Time, and Memory, by Volker Benkert and Michael Mayer Part 1. Spatial and Temporal Continuities 1. Contested Spaces: Criminalization of Marginalized Communities in Former Habsburg Lands in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Case Study of Austrian Zigeuner ("Gypsies"), by Ursula K. Mindler-Steiner 2. Space and Ideas of National, Ethnic, or Religious Homogeneity: Polish and German Jewish Survivors in the Recovered Territories in Post – World War II Poland, by Anna Cichopek-Gajraj Part 2. States and Actors 3. States as Contributors to or Enablers of Violence: Colonial Thinking Is Still with Us: Investigating the Colonial Record on the Occupation of Jambi and Rengat (1948 – 49) in the Indonesian War of Independence, by Bart Luttikhuis 4. Asymmetric Power Relations: Jihad Made in Germany? Creating Terrorscapes through German Undercover Intelligence Operations against Britain and Russia in Afghanistan, India, and Persia during the First World War: An Entangled History of Violence, by Michael Mayer 5. Third-Party Actors and the Question of Genocide: Imperialism and the Question of Genocide in Colonial-Era Africa, by Jason Bruner Part 3. Imagination and Emotions 6. Utopian Ideologies and Their Limits: Private Lives in Wartime France: Desertion, Divorce, and Deprivation, by Rachel G. Fuchs 7. Emotion, Hope, Fear, and Belonging : Soviet Wartime Jazz: Propaganda and Popular Culture on the Eastern Front, by Benjamin Beresford Part 4. Memory Continuities 8. Crafting the History of Terrortimes 1: Manufactured Memory: Crafting the Cult of the Great Patriotic War, by Yan Mann 9. Crafting the History of Terrortimes 2: Compartmentalized Memory: Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past and the Discourse on German Sufferings at the Turn of the Millennium, by Volker Benkert 10. Terrortimes in Transnational Perspective 1: Between National and European Memory? About Temporal and Spatial (Dis)Continuities in Post-1989 Dutch Memory Culture, by Ilse Raaijmakers 11. Terrortimes in Transnational Perspective 2: Remembering the Holocaust: Opportunities and Challenges, by Georgi Verbeeck Epilogue. The Yardstick of History and the Measure of Redemption: Difficult Pasts in the United States and Germany Today, by Volker Benkert About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the power of art in the service of healing Healing from Genocide in Rwanda demonstrates the power of art in the service of healing, and is a testimony to responsive community process in a highly sensitive environment. The work immerses readers in the stories of two Rwandans who as small children experienced the 1994 Genocide. It tells of the horrific tragedy each survived, the courage necessary for surviving, and the humanity they embody. Their stories are framed by two chapters chronicling the transformation, in the Rugerero Survivors’ Village, of a concrete burial slab into a powerful Genocide Memorial with its bone chamber, designed by artist Lily Yeh and built by the villagers. The book is not limited to the literature of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, but belongs to the world as part of the collective human experience. It evokes its world through images (photographs, drawings, paintings, pattern, and color) as well as words. The text itself is visually choreographed. The work draws from Lily Yeh’s multifaceted Rwandan Healing Project under the auspices of Barefoot Artists, a project that included, among other things, drawing and storytelling workshops. Susan Viguers conceived and designed the book, incorporating drawings and paintings by Lily Yeh.Trade Review"In a new book, artist and coauthor Lily Yeh brings the transformational power of art to a very dark place." -- JoAnn Greco, The Pennsylvania Gazette"Healing from Genocide in Rwanda is a major contribution to the growing literature on genocide. Its profoundly moving account of the horror of genocide and the complexity of healing make it of considerable use to all those invested in human rights." -- Gail Daneker, human rights activist"This is a book of two children’s stories of survival. It is not a book for children. It’s a book for adults about the depravity of adults. A horrifying book. And yet an exquisitely beautiful book, a book honoring the truth of genocide and the use of story and art to heal. Governments promise never again and look the other way; Lily Yeh and Susan Viguers give us the gift of extraordinary seeing and caring – without which genocides continue." -- Robert Shetterly, artist and author of Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth

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Book Synopsis2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the declaration of the First World War, and with it comes a deluge of books, documentaries, feature films and radio programs. We will hear a great deal about the horror of the battlefield. Bourke acknowledges wider truths: war is unending and violence is deeply entrenched in our society. But it doesn't have to be this way. This book equips readers with an understanding of the history, culture and politics of warfare in order to interrogate and resist an increasingly violent world.Wounding the World investigates the ways that violence and war have become internalized in contemporary human consciousness in everything from the way we speak, to the way our children play with one another, to the way that we ascribe social characteristics to our guns and other weapons. With a remarkable depth of insight, Bourke argues for a radical overhaul of our collective stance towards militarism from one that simply aims to reduce violence against people to one that would eradicate all violence. Her message is judicious and vital: knowledge about weapons and the violence they bring has simply become too important to cast aside or leave to the experts.

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Book SynopsisHuman Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. These cases provide a great foundation for twenty-first-century human rights and accompany the achievements of the Nuremberg trials and postwar conventions. They include indictments of perpetrators of the Holocaust made while the death camps were still operating, which confounds the conventional wisdom that there was no official Allied response to the Holocaust at the time. This history also brings long overdue credit to the United Nations' War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), which operated during and after World War II. Dan Plesch describes the commission's work and Washington's bureaucratic obstruction to a 1944 proposal to prosecute crimes against humanity before an international criminal court. From the 1940s until a recent lobbying effort by Plesch and colleagues, the UNWCC's files were kept out of public view in the UN archives under pressure from the US government. The book answers why the commission and its files were closed and reveals that the lost precedents set by these cases have enormous practical utility for prosecuting war crimes today. They cover US and Allied prosecutions of torture, including "water treatment," wartime sexual assault, and crimes by foot soldiers who were "just following orders." Plesch's book will fascinate anyone with an interest in the history of the Second World War as well as provide ground-breaking revelations for historians and human rights practitioners alike.Trade ReviewRevelatory . . . Those interested in the development of human rights and justice will find this work essential reading. * Choice *This is a well-researched and well-argued book. * The London Moment *[An] important book . . . With so few survivors of the Holocaust alive today to give testimony the detailed accounts contained within, the UNWCC archives should be heard widely in order to counter those who still deny the horrors of the Holocaust. For every opponent of fascism this book is an essential read. * International Socialism *The author must be congratulated for his personal efforts in securing the release of the archive as well as for this well-written history of how a valuable legal resource was kept for decades hidden from the public in denial of their right to know. * Irish Times *Dan Plesch's admirable new study aims to bring attention to the significance of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC, 1943–48) in facilitating the prosecution of war crimes across Europe and Asia after the Second World War. * Michigan War Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Prosecuting Rape: The Modern Relevance of World War II Legal Practices 2. A New Paradigm for Providing Justice for International Human Rights Violations 3. When the Allies Condemned the Holocaust 4. Pursuing War Criminals All Over the World 5. The Holocaust Indictments: Prosecuting the "Foot Soldiers of Atrocity" 6. Fair Trials and Collective Responsibility for Criminal Acts 7. Crimes against Humanity: The "Freedom to Lynch" and the Indictments of Adolf Hitler 8. Liberating the Nazis 9. The Legacy Unleashed AppendixesIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisIn 2004, the Academy Award–nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Milles Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees don't endorse Rusesabagina's version of the events.In the wake of Hotel Rwanda's international success, Rusesabagina is one of the most well-known Rwandans and now the smiling face of the very Hutu Power groups who drove the genocide. He is accused by the Rwandan prosecutor general of being a genocide negationist and funding the terrorist group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing 100 days within the walls of that infamous hotel and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura tells of his life in a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter. Inside the Hotel Rwanda exposes Paul Rusesabagina as a profiteering, politically ambitious Hutu Power sympathizer who extorted money from those who sought refuge, threatening to send those who did not pay to the genocidaires, despite pleas from the hotel's corporate ownership to stop. Inside the Hotel Rwanda is at once a memoir, a critical deconstruction of a heralded Hollywood movie alleged to be factual, and a political analysis aimed at exposing a falsely created hero using his fame to be a political force, spouting the same ethnic apartheid that caused the genocide two decades ago.Trade Review"This book offers a window into the real life experience of those who hid in the Hotel des Mille Collines during the 100 days of the genocide. For those who have learned of this story only through the famous movie Hotel Rwanda, the story of Edouard Kayihura is a privileged opportunity to put reality to the Hollywood dramatization."—Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire (Retired) Force Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, founder of The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, Senior Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and Co-Director of the Will to Intervene Project"I would like to thank the authors of the book Inside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story...and Why It Matters Today for providing an honest account of the daily challenges experienced inside the Hotel Mille Collines during the Genocide Against the Tutsi. It stands apart from the tales of those who have abused, manipulated, and diverted public attention and opinion from what has been endured."—Bernard Makuza, Vice-President of the Rwandan Senate, former Rwandan Prime Minister, and Rwanda's former ambassador to Germany and Burundi"Historical truth is a slippery thing—even more so when the mass media is involved. The story of ‘Hotel Rwanda' is complex and fascinating. This book adds new depth to our understanding of the Rwandan genocide and the episode that has become its best known symbol."—Stephen Kinzer, award-winning foreign correspondent, author: A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It, teacher of journalism, Brown University"Everyone who saw the movie Hotel Rwanda MUST read this book in which true survivors tell their story. While the movie indisputably raised awareness of genocide against Rwandan Tutsi, its distortion of facts created one of the most virulent platforms championing trivialization of that tragedy through theories of double genocide and related tactics."—Egide Karuranga, PhD, professor at the Laval University School of Business in Quebec; President of Rwandan Diaspora of Canada, and genocide survivor from the Hotel des Mille Collines"I will never forget the eight days my family and I spent in hiding at Hotel des Milles Collines. I was only 13 at the time, but I remember like it was yesterday. Twenty years later, it's important that we continue to acknowledge and commemorate the events that took place during those 100 days through stories such as those captured in Inside the Hotel Rwanda."—Ashish J. Thakkar, Africa's youngest billionaire, Founder of Mara Group and Mara Foundation, a nonprofit social enterprise that focuses on emerging African entrepreneurs"Inside the Hotel Rwanda reveals the real story of the events at the Hotel Mille Collines during the genocide in Rwanda. It exposes the untruths and inaccuracies of the Hollywood depiction of the exploits of Paul Rusesabagina. It lays bare how Rusesabagina has been able to fuel his own dangerous political ambitions as a result of the twisted facts of the film. Inside the Hotel Rwanda is important for finally setting the record straight, and doing so authoritatively from the perspective of a survivor of the events."—David Russell, former Director of Survivors Fund (SURF), and Founder of The Social Enterprise"Inside the Hotel Rwanda: What Really Happened and Why It Matters Today is a gripping first-person testimony of life inside the famous hotel that served as a sanctuary for over 1,000 souls during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The author artfully blends his personal memoir with a cri de Coeur for the future of his nation. It provides a beacon of light for those seeking to eradicate genocide around the world."–Melanie Tomsons, Executive Director and CCO of Never Again International-Canada"For more than a decade, the film Hotel Rwanda has come to define a particular story and understanding of Rwanda. In this heartfelt work, Kayihura provides a moving tale from within that hotel, and seeks to set the record straight on the events there and since. For all craving authenticity about that horrific time, this is essential reading."–Josh Ruxin, PhD, Truman Scholar, Fulbright Scholar, Marshall Scholar, and author of A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope and a Restaurant in Rwanda"I thank the author for this genuine and true recount of the daily fears and threats, hopes and despair, joys and sufferings experienced by refugees in the Hotel des Milles Collines. Edouard is presenting with humility and a heart-breaking accuracy the reality of what happened in the hotel, unlike those who abused, misused, manipulated, and diverted the world opinion with a far-fetched story for their own interests, fame, and self-aggrandizing agenda."—Gasamagera Wellars, Director General of Rwanda Management Institute and former Rwandan Senator"Edouard Kayihura's memoir about the actual events inside the famed ‘Hotel Rwanda' serves as multifaceted rejoinder to the mythology that emerged from Hollywood's fictionalized version of the 1994 genocide. If you want to become a better-informed global citizen and go beyond glossy feel-good images, read Kayihura's account of how twisting a story can spiral into a maelstrom of deception and divisiveness."—Gerise Herndon, PhD, Director of Gender Studies and English professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University"This is a serious and well-written reappraisal of the events at ‘Hotel Rwanda' in 1994. Kayihura's survivor account demonstrates the gulf between media portrayals and reality, and shows how myth-making has done nothing to resolve the polarity of perceptions of the genocide."—David Whitehouse, author of In Search of Rwanda's Génocidaires: French Justice and the Lost Decades"A chilling account by a Rwandan who was targeted by name and narrowly escaped death during Rwanda's time of genocide, his desperate flight seeking safety into the real ‘Hotel Rwanda,' and his first-hand report on who really kept him and the other refugees in the hotel from being slaughtered."—John Quigley, LL.B. Harvard University, President's Club Professor Emeritus of Law at Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University"Like The Diary of Anne Frank, this book provides a glimpse into the day-to-day life of people combating the insanity of genocide. The book is above all a story of humanity in the midst of an insane genocide. In the end, there are no heroes; there are only people willing to take a risk for the sake of humanity."—Amy Shuman, PhD, professor at Ohio State University

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Book SynopsisThe Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using a recent human rights trial as his lens, Sam Ferguson addresses two central questions of our age: How is mass atrocity possible, and What should be done in its wake? From 1976 to 1983 thousands of people were the victims of state terrorism during Argentina’s so-called Dirty War. Ferguson recounts a twenty-two-month trial of the most notorious perpetrators of this atrocity, who ran a secret prison from the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires. The navy executed as many as five thousand political “subversives,” most of whom were sedated and thrown alive out of airplanes into the South Atlantic. The victims of these secret death flights and others who went missing during the regime are known as los desaparecidos—“the disappeared.” Ferguson explores Argentina’s novel response to mass atrocity: the country’s remarkable and controversial decisions in 2003 to repeal a series of amnesty laws passed in the 1980s and to prosecute anew the perpetrators of the Dirty War a generation after the collapse of the country's last dictatorship. As of 2022 more than one thousand aging military officers have been indicted for their involvement in the Dirty War and hundreds of trials have commenced in the country’s civilian courts. Among the many facets of the book, Ferguson takes an in-depth look at allegations that Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, was involved in the disappearance of two Jesuit priests under his supervision in 1976. Bergoglio was called to testify in a closed-chambers session. Ferguson reviewed those secret proceedings and uses them as a springboard to explore the Argentine Catholic Church and its broader role in the Dirty War. The lingering but acute trauma of the victims who testified at the trial underscores the moral urgency of accountability. When a state strips its citizens of all their rights, the only response that approximates reparation is to restore the rule of law and punish the perpetrators. Yet the trial also revealed the limits of using criminal law to respond to mass atrocity. Justice demands a laser-like focus on evidence relevant to a crime, but atrocity begs for social understanding. Can the law ever bring full justice? Trade Review“With the eye of a novelist and the brilliance of a lawyer, Sam Ferguson has given us a gripping and world-illuminating account of Argentina’s relentless and almost heroic attempt to confront the horrors of its past.”—Owen Fiss, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale Law School“Sam Ferguson’s book tells the remarkable saga of this twenty-two-month trial and the larger story of how and why Argentina is prosecuting its aging Dirty Warriors. It wrestles with the deepest questions of whether law can do justice for the past. This is an important and timely book that should be read by all of those who are interested in fostering international human rights and promoting democracy—and a reminder that societies never really turn the page on the past.”—Tina Rosenberg, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Haunted: Facing Europe’s Ghosts after Communism“In The Disappeared Sam Ferguson asks an urgent moral question: what does justice look like in the aftermath of atrocity? If that question remains an abstraction in too many places around the world, Ferguson addresses it concretely—and unforgettably—in this riveting new account. . . . In Ferguson’s hands you’ll feel as if you, too, are sitting in the repurposed movie theater with the faded pink drapes in 2009, watching an important political spectacle commence. But The Disappeared also offers a clear-eyed assessment of the limits of the law and the kinds of collective heartbreak it is not equipped to heal.”—Sarah Stillman, staff writer for the New Yorker“The true birth of the contemporary human rights movement can be traced not to Nuremberg or even to Auschwitz but to the dark recesses of the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires. . . . [The Disappeared] is a gripping narrative; Sam Ferguson has written a fascinating, painstaking, and necessary book. Anyone who cares about human rights—or indeed the human condition—must read it.”—Mark Danner, author of The Massacre at El Mozote“Can there ever be justice for Latin America’s disappeared? This remarkable book analyzes the question through the prism of Argentina’s contemporary crimes against humanity trials for atrocities committed during its so-called ‘Dirty War’ of the 1970s and the possibility of delayed justice. As a lawyer and observer, Ferguson presents a keen understanding in this nuanced and highly readable account. . . . Through [Ferguson’s] interviews, comprehensive research, and first-hand observations, a lucid narrative emerges here: Argentina has imagined and created a better future through the trials by opening up its dark past. Argentina has achieved a level of self-reflection and judgment that tragically remains largely exceptional among nations. Given the rise of authoritarianism around the world, this is hugely necessary and riveting reading for students, academics, and political analysts alike.”—Ruti G. Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School and author of Globalizing Transitional JusticeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction One: A Beginning of Sorts Two: The Argentine Enigma Three: The Prosecution's Case Four: Opening Silence Five: Trials Before the Trial Six: The Brutality of the ESMA Seven: Rodolfo Walsh Eight: The Santa Cruz Raid Nine: Between Memory, Truth and Justice Ten: The Jesuits Eleven: Closing Arguments and Verdict Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Hope to Horror is Joyce E. Leader's eyewitness account of the struggle for democracy and peace in Rwanda during the early 1990s and the failed diplomatic efforts to prevent conflict from escalating to genocide.

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Book SynopsisTeaching and Learning About Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Fundamental Issues and Pedagogical Approaches by Samuel Totten, a renowned scholar of genocide studies and Professor Emeritus, College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is a culmination of 30 years in the field of genocide studies and education. In writing this book, Totten reports that he “crafted this book along the lines of what he wished had been available to him when he first began teaching about genocide back in the mid-1980s. That is, a book that combines the best of genocide theory, the realities of the genocidal process, and how to teach about such complex and often terrible and difficult issues and facts in a theoretically, historically and pedagogically sound manner.” As the last book he will ever write on education and educating about genocide, he perceives the book as his gift to those educators who have the heart and grit to tackle such an important issue in their classrooms.Table of Contents Introduction. Chapter I: Genocide: An Overview. Raphael Lemkin: Coining the Term “Genocide” and Advocating for the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Genocide in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries. Typologies of Genocide. The Process of Genocide. The Wretched Record of the International Community vis-a -vis the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide. More Positive Actions and News vis-a -vis Prevention and Intervention. Fighting Impunity: At Least Somewhat. Working to Prevent Genocide and/or Intervene in a Timely and Effective Fashion. Conclusion. Notes. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 2: Genocide: What It Is And Isn’t. The Crafting of the UNCG. Intent: One of the Keys to the UNCG Definition of Genocide in Regard to Whether the Perpetration of Atrocities Constitute Genocide or Not. The Focus of Genocide: Groups, Not Individuals. The Word “Destroy.” The Wording “in Whole or in Part.” Those Groups That Are and Are Not Protected Under the UNCG. The Wording “As Such.” Acts That Constitute Genocide Punishable Under the UNCG. Perpetrators and Their Prosecution. Conclusion. Notes. References. Chapter 3: Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, And Genocide: Key Distinctions. Crimes Against Humanity. Ethnic Cleansing. Genocide. Key Distinctions Between Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and Ethnic Cleansing. Perhaps a Focus on Crimes Against Humanity and Not Genocide Would Be More Sagacious. A Classroom Learning Activity cum Evaluation: The Significance of the Distinctions Between and Amongst Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocide. Conclusion. Notes. References. Appendix: Excerpt from Talk by Professor William Schabas, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 4: Misconceptions, Inaccuracies, And Myths That Often Plague Teaching And Learning About Genocide. Select Examples of Misconceptions. Conclusion. Notes. Contents. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 5: The Prevention And Intervention Of Genocide. The Best Way to Prevent Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Is Before They Begin. Early Warning Signals. Preventive Diplomacy: A Wide Array of Early Measures to Ease Tensions, Stave Off Violence, and Bring a Modicum of Stability to a State or Region. Sticky and Sticking Issues. A Pedagogical Approach. Conclusion. Notes. References. Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 6: Issues Of Rationale: Teaching About Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Issues of Rationale. Major Questions That Might Be Wise to Ask at the Outset of One’s Planning: Why Genocide? Why Not Human Rights? Why Not Crimes Against Humanity? So What? Examples of Issues of Rationale: Genocide. Reflecting on One’s Rationales in Order to Ascertain if Lacuna Exist. Helping Students Reflect on Issues of Rationale. Conclusion. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 7: Teaching About Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity: Instructional Issues, Teaching Strategies And Learning Activities. The Null Curriculum. Weak Pedagogy Plagues Many Lessons and Units on Genocide. Key Pedagogical Concerns When Teaching About Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Addressing More Than the Holocaust or a Single Case of Crimes Against Humanity or Genocide Per Year. The Significance of Carefully Selecting and/or Crafting and Implementing Solid Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities. Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities That Challenge Students to Dig More Deeply. An Activity to Carry Out Prior to the Start of the Unit of Study. Written Responses to Readings: Preparation for Class Discussions/Short Lectures. Reflective Journals. Crafting a Critical Biographical Analysis of a Major Figure (Other Than a Victim or Perpetrator) Related to the Issue of Crimes Against Humanity or Genocide. Extra Credit. Closing Activities. Conclusion. Notes. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 8: Incorporating First-Person Accounts Into A Study Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Incorporating First-Person Accounts Into a Study of Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Value of Contemporaneous Accounts. Issues to Ponder/Consider When Using First-Person Accounts of Genocide in the Classroom. Incorporating First-Person Accounts into a Study of Genocide: Learning Activities. Conclusion. Note. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 9: Incorporating Primary Documents Into A Study Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Primary Documents. Primary Documents and Genocide. A Sample of Those Primary Documents That Are Both Highly Informative and Revelatory. The Value of Incorporating Primary Accounts into a Study of Genocide. Pedagogical Approaches for Incorporating Primary Accounts into a Study of Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Incorporating Documents at Critical Points in the Study. Conclusion. Note. References. Select Annotated Bibliography: Incorporating Primary Documents Into a Study of Genocide. Chapter 10: Denying Deniers The Opportunity To Deceive And Influence One’s Students: Educators And Students Beware: Deniers And Their Efforts At Denying Facts Are Found All Across The Internet. The Deniers and Distorters. Approaches and Tactics of Deniers and Characteristics of Denial. Provide Students With a List of Major Deniers of Various Genocides. Learning Activities. Conclusion. Notes. References. Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 11: Who Isn’t A Bystander To Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity? What Is a Bystander? The Bystanders in the Region of the Killing Fields? Outside the Region? Both Those Inside and Outside? How Does One Avoid Becoming a Bystander? Conclusion. References. Select Annotated. Bibliography. Appendices: A. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. B. Crimes Against Humanity. C. Implementing the Responsibility to Protect. About the Author.

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Book SynopsisTeaching and Learning About Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Fundamental Issues and Pedagogical Approaches by Samuel Totten, a renowned scholar of genocide studies and Professor Emeritus, College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is a culmination of 30 years in the field of genocide studies and education. In writing this book, Totten reports that he “crafted this book along the lines of what he wished had been available to him when he first began teaching about genocide back in the mid-1980s. That is, a book that combines the best of genocide theory, the realities of the genocidal process, and how to teach about such complex and often terrible and difficult issues and facts in a theoretically, historically and pedagogically sound manner.” As the last book he will ever write on education and educating about genocide, he perceives the book as his gift to those educators who have the heart and grit to tackle such an important issue in their classrooms.Table of Contents Introduction. Chapter I: Genocide: An Overview. Raphael Lemkin: Coining the Term “Genocide” and Advocating for the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Genocide in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries. Typologies of Genocide. The Process of Genocide. The Wretched Record of the International Community vis-a -vis the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide. More Positive Actions and News vis-a -vis Prevention and Intervention. Fighting Impunity: At Least Somewhat. Working to Prevent Genocide and/or Intervene in a Timely and Effective Fashion. Conclusion. Notes. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 2: Genocide: What It Is And Isn’t. The Crafting of the UNCG. Intent: One of the Keys to the UNCG Definition of Genocide in Regard to Whether the Perpetration of Atrocities Constitute Genocide or Not. The Focus of Genocide: Groups, Not Individuals. The Word “Destroy.” The Wording “in Whole or in Part.” Those Groups That Are and Are Not Protected Under the UNCG. The Wording “As Such.” Acts That Constitute Genocide Punishable Under the UNCG. Perpetrators and Their Prosecution. Conclusion. Notes. References. Chapter 3: Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, And Genocide: Key Distinctions. Crimes Against Humanity. Ethnic Cleansing. Genocide. Key Distinctions Between Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and Ethnic Cleansing. Perhaps a Focus on Crimes Against Humanity and Not Genocide Would Be More Sagacious. A Classroom Learning Activity cum Evaluation: The Significance of the Distinctions Between and Amongst Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocide. Conclusion. Notes. References. Appendix: Excerpt from Talk by Professor William Schabas, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 4: Misconceptions, Inaccuracies, And Myths That Often Plague Teaching And Learning About Genocide. Select Examples of Misconceptions. Conclusion. Notes. Contents. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 5: The Prevention And Intervention Of Genocide. The Best Way to Prevent Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Is Before They Begin. Early Warning Signals. Preventive Diplomacy: A Wide Array of Early Measures to Ease Tensions, Stave Off Violence, and Bring a Modicum of Stability to a State or Region. Sticky and Sticking Issues. A Pedagogical Approach. Conclusion. Notes. References. Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 6: Issues Of Rationale: Teaching About Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Issues of Rationale. Major Questions That Might Be Wise to Ask at the Outset of One’s Planning: Why Genocide? Why Not Human Rights? Why Not Crimes Against Humanity? So What? Examples of Issues of Rationale: Genocide. Reflecting on One’s Rationales in Order to Ascertain if Lacuna Exist. Helping Students Reflect on Issues of Rationale. Conclusion. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 7: Teaching About Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity: Instructional Issues, Teaching Strategies And Learning Activities. The Null Curriculum. Weak Pedagogy Plagues Many Lessons and Units on Genocide. Key Pedagogical Concerns When Teaching About Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Addressing More Than the Holocaust or a Single Case of Crimes Against Humanity or Genocide Per Year. The Significance of Carefully Selecting and/or Crafting and Implementing Solid Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities. Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities That Challenge Students to Dig More Deeply. An Activity to Carry Out Prior to the Start of the Unit of Study. Written Responses to Readings: Preparation for Class Discussions/Short Lectures. Reflective Journals. Crafting a Critical Biographical Analysis of a Major Figure (Other Than a Victim or Perpetrator) Related to the Issue of Crimes Against Humanity or Genocide. Extra Credit. Closing Activities. Conclusion. Notes. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 8: Incorporating First-Person Accounts Into A Study Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Incorporating First-Person Accounts Into a Study of Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Value of Contemporaneous Accounts. Issues to Ponder/Consider When Using First-Person Accounts of Genocide in the Classroom. Incorporating First-Person Accounts into a Study of Genocide: Learning Activities. Conclusion. Note. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 9: Incorporating Primary Documents Into A Study Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Primary Documents. Primary Documents and Genocide. A Sample of Those Primary Documents That Are Both Highly Informative and Revelatory. The Value of Incorporating Primary Accounts into a Study of Genocide. Pedagogical Approaches for Incorporating Primary Accounts into a Study of Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Incorporating Documents at Critical Points in the Study. Conclusion. Note. References. Select Annotated Bibliography: Incorporating Primary Documents Into a Study of Genocide. Chapter 10: Denying Deniers The Opportunity To Deceive And Influence One’s Students: Educators And Students Beware: Deniers And Their Efforts At Denying Facts Are Found All Across The Internet. The Deniers and Distorters. Approaches and Tactics of Deniers and Characteristics of Denial. Provide Students With a List of Major Deniers of Various Genocides. Learning Activities. Conclusion. Notes. References. Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 11: Who Isn’t A Bystander To Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity? What Is a Bystander? The Bystanders in the Region of the Killing Fields? Outside the Region? Both Those Inside and Outside? How Does One Avoid Becoming a Bystander? Conclusion. References. Select Annotated. Bibliography. Appendices: A. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. B. Crimes Against Humanity. C. Implementing the Responsibility to Protect. About the Author.

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Book SynopsisWhen the Holocaust broke out in Europe, Hansi and Joel Brand were joined by Israel (Rezső) Kasztner to launch an organized effort to save thousands of human lives. Their efforts, which involved playing a dangerous bluffing game against the Nazi regime, helped to end the Auschwitz extermination. Their success put them at odds with the political machine of the young state of Israel. Politicians wanted the public to believe that there was nothing they could do, a sentiment which many still believe to this day. This cover-up led to Israel's first politically-motivated homicide.Trade Review“In 1944 the Hungarian Jewish activist Joel Brand was sent from Budapest to neutral Turkey to broker a deal on behalf of the Nazis – represented by Eichmann – with the Zionists and the Allies regarding the exchange of thousands of Jews for necessary war materials, the notorious “Blood for Goods”... Daniel Brand, the youngest son of Joel and his wife Hansi, has written a meticulously researched and detailed narrative, based on a huge range of historical documents, attempting to unravel the complexities of the controversial deal, its context, its aftermath and his parents’ part in both. … Each part is divided into short clearly written sections, which make this complicated material fairly easy reading. It is a uniquely personal contribution to the accounts of this murky chapter in Holocaust history.”— Glenda Abramson, University of Oxford, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 21:4“The last chapter of the Holocaust—the extermination of half a million Hungarian Jews in 1944—remains shrouded in mystery. How could so many people be lured to their deaths, in such a short time frame, and at this eleventh hour of the war? One of the key controversies concerns Adolf Eichmann’s infamous proposal to release up to one million Jews in exchange for strategic goods. In May 1944, the Nazis dispatched the author’s father, the rescue worker Joel Brand, to neutral Turkey, to submit this bizarre bid to the Zionists and the Allies. In this important book, Joel’s son Daniel rehabilitates the memory of his parents, which has been the object of multiple misinterpretations. In the process, he challenges the idea that Blood-for-Goods was a mere Nazi deception, and the Brands the unwitting dupes who, supposedly, facilitated this endeavor. Instead he argues that the leaders of the free world failed to realize the potential for saving large numbers of victims that was inherent to the proposal.”—Paul Sanders, Associate Professor, NEOMA Business School“Dani Brand’s analysis of the situation in Hungary in the early 1940s is much deeper than most. His is the first I have read to do justice to the frame of mind and confused attitudes of the Jewish population, highlighting their impossible situation at this desperate time. He helps to dispel the image suggested by some, that Jews were ‘like sheep to the slaughter.’ He pays long overdue tribute to the truly heroic activities of the Jewish Refugees Committee. He tells how the JRC leadership (including his own parents) and many young Zionists, without weapons, knowingly risked their lives in the cause of saving others from the death camps. Some, like the JRC leader Otto Komoly, were murdered by the Arrow Cross fascists.”—Tomi Komoly, Hungarian Holocaust survivorTable of Contents Acknowledgements Prologue 1. Background Hungary The Jews in Hungary 2. The Brands The Beginning of the Holocaust and the First Rescue Operation Joel Hansi The Wedding, 1934–1935 The "Golden Age": The Calm before the Storm Part I. Towards Holocaust 3. Early Rescue Operations Evasion of Labor Service The Rescue from the Deportation of "Alien" Jews 4. The Refugees The Refugees who Arrived in Hungary The Hungarian Jews and the Refugees The Brands and the Refugees The Smuggling Operations (Tiyul) 5. The Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee The Members of the Committee 6. The Gap between Data and Knowledge Warning Signs of the Holocaust in Hungary What did the Hungarian Jews Know? Part II. Holocaust 7. The Occupation 8. Early Rescue Attempts in Budapest Background The Front Line The Bratislava Working Group The Auschwitz Protocols Five Different Ways for Rescue The Jewish Council: Judenrat The Palestinian Office The JPU (Jewish Pioneer Underground) The Rescue Committee 9. The Negotiations with Eichmann: The "Blood For Goods" Deal 10. The Destruction of the Hungarian Jewry The Preparations Liquidation of the Periphery Jews The Fate of Budapest Jewry 11. Rescue Activities in Budapest after Joel Left for His Mission Continued Negotiations with Eichmann Strasshof or "Jews on Ice" "The Train of the Privileged" The Forged Documents and Hansi's Arrest Rescuing the Budapest Jews at the End of August 1944 Krausz's Rescue Attempts The Jewish Pioneer Underground in Hungary Additional Achievements of the Negotiations with the Nazis Ottó Komoly and the International Red Cross (IRC) The Budapest Ghetto 12. The Paratroopers' Affair The Paratroopers' Mission The Paratroopers The Paratroopers' Activities in Hungary The Reasons for the Paratroopers' Failure in Hungary 13. Hansi: "The Heart of the Consortium" Part III. Indifference 14. Istanbul Indifference and Negligence What Could Have Possibly been Done? 15. Pre-State Israel, the Jewish People, and the Holocaust The Jews over the World: What They Knew and How They Reacted Jewish Rescue Policy Part IV. Deception 16. The Struggle for the Narrative The Jewish Public in Palestine/Israel and Its Post-War Leadership The Attitude toward Jewish Rescuers of Jews 17. The Kasztner Affair Kasztner's Report Kasztner's Mission to Nuremberg Kasztner's Trial 18. Rewriting the History The Early Years: The Holocaust and Its Victims are Not on the Public Agenda Joel's Mission Exposure and Its Implications 19. Deception Techniques Real-Time Documents Non-German Documents German Documents Downplaying the Importance of the Rescue Attempts Eliminating the Brands from the History Kasztner's Unborn Children Damaging Joel's Reputation and Trustworthiness Who is Misleading? 20. The Brands Affair Epilogue Appendices Appendix 1: Sharet's Report Appendix 2: The Jewish Agency Rescue Policy Timetable Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen the Holocaust broke out in Europe, Hansi and Joel Brand were joined by Israel (Rezső) Kasztner to launch an organized effort to save thousands of human lives. Their efforts, which involved playing a dangerous bluffing game against the Nazi regime, helped to end the Auschwitz extermination. Their success put them at odds with the political machine of the young state of Israel. Politicians wanted the public to believe that there was nothing they could do, a sentiment which many still believe to this day. This cover-up led to Israel's first politically-motivated homicide.Trade Review“In 1944 the Hungarian Jewish activist Joel Brand was sent from Budapest to neutral Turkey to broker a deal on behalf of the Nazis – represented by Eichmann – with the Zionists and the Allies regarding the exchange of thousands of Jews for necessary war materials, the notorious “Blood for Goods”... Daniel Brand, the youngest son of Joel and his wife Hansi, has written a meticulously researched and detailed narrative, based on a huge range of historical documents, attempting to unravel the complexities of the controversial deal, its context, its aftermath and his parents’ part in both. … Each part is divided into short clearly written sections, which make this complicated material fairly easy reading. It is a uniquely personal contribution to the accounts of this murky chapter in Holocaust history.”— Glenda Abramson, University of Oxford, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 21:4“The last chapter of the Holocaust—the extermination of half a million Hungarian Jews in 1944—remains shrouded in mystery. How could so many people be lured to their deaths, in such a short time frame, and at this eleventh hour of the war? One of the key controversies concerns Adolf Eichmann’s infamous proposal to release up to one million Jews in exchange for strategic goods. In May 1944, the Nazis dispatched the author’s father, the rescue worker Joel Brand, to neutral Turkey, to submit this bizarre bid to the Zionists and the Allies. In this important book, Joel’s son Daniel rehabilitates the memory of his parents, which has been the object of multiple misinterpretations. In the process, he challenges the idea that Blood-for-Goods was a mere Nazi deception, and the Brands the unwitting dupes who, supposedly, facilitated this endeavor. Instead he argues that the leaders of the free world failed to realize the potential for saving large numbers of victims that was inherent to the proposal.”—Paul Sanders, Associate Professor, NEOMA Business School“Dani Brand’s analysis of the situation in Hungary in the early 1940s is much deeper than most. His is the first I have read to do justice to the frame of mind and confused attitudes of the Jewish population, highlighting their impossible situation at this desperate time. He helps to dispel the image suggested by some, that Jews were ‘like sheep to the slaughter.’ He pays long overdue tribute to the truly heroic activities of the Jewish Refugees Committee. He tells how the JRC leadership (including his own parents) and many young Zionists, without weapons, knowingly risked their lives in the cause of saving others from the death camps. Some, like the JRC leader Otto Komoly, were murdered by the Arrow Cross fascists.”—Tomi Komoly, Hungarian Holocaust survivorTable of Contents Acknowledgements Prologue 1. Background Hungary The Jews in Hungary 2. The Brands The Beginning of the Holocaust and the First Rescue Operation Joel Hansi The Wedding, 1934–1935 The "Golden Age": The Calm before the Storm Part I. Towards Holocaust 3. Early Rescue Operations Evasion of Labor Service The Rescue from the Deportation of "Alien" Jews 4. The Refugees The Refugees who Arrived in Hungary The Hungarian Jews and the Refugees The Brands and the Refugees The Smuggling Operations (Tiyul) 5. The Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee The Members of the Committee 6. The Gap between Data and Knowledge Warning Signs of the Holocaust in Hungary What did the Hungarian Jews Know? Part II. Holocaust 7. The Occupation 8. Early Rescue Attempts in Budapest Background The Front Line The Bratislava Working Group The Auschwitz Protocols Five Different Ways for Rescue The Jewish Council: Judenrat The Palestinian Office The JPU (Jewish Pioneer Underground) The Rescue Committee 9. The Negotiations with Eichmann: The "Blood For Goods" Deal 10. The Destruction of the Hungarian Jewry The Preparations Liquidation of the Periphery Jews The Fate of Budapest Jewry 11. Rescue Activities in Budapest after Joel Left for His Mission Continued Negotiations with Eichmann Strasshof or "Jews on Ice" "The Train of the Privileged" The Forged Documents and Hansi's Arrest Rescuing the Budapest Jews at the End of August 1944 Krausz's Rescue Attempts The Jewish Pioneer Underground in Hungary Additional Achievements of the Negotiations with the Nazis Ottó Komoly and the International Red Cross (IRC) The Budapest Ghetto 12. The Paratroopers' Affair The Paratroopers' Mission The Paratroopers The Paratroopers' Activities in Hungary The Reasons for the Paratroopers' Failure in Hungary 13. Hansi: "The Heart of the Consortium" Part III. Indifference 14. Istanbul Indifference and Negligence What Could Have Possibly been Done? 15. Pre-State Israel, the Jewish People, and the Holocaust The Jews over the World: What They Knew and How They Reacted Jewish Rescue Policy Part IV. Deception 16. The Struggle for the Narrative The Jewish Public in Palestine/Israel and Its Post-War Leadership The Attitude toward Jewish Rescuers of Jews 17. The Kasztner Affair Kasztner's Report Kasztner's Mission to Nuremberg Kasztner's Trial 18. Rewriting the History The Early Years: The Holocaust and Its Victims are Not on the Public Agenda Joel's Mission Exposure and Its Implications 19. Deception Techniques Real-Time Documents Non-German Documents German Documents Downplaying the Importance of the Rescue Attempts Eliminating the Brands from the History Kasztner's Unborn Children Damaging Joel's Reputation and Trustworthiness Who is Misleading? 20. The Brands Affair Epilogue Appendices Appendix 1: Sharet's Report Appendix 2: The Jewish Agency Rescue Policy Timetable Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen the Turks demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit, demanding the same of the then forthcoming First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide. This book follows the author's gutsy campaign against the Israeli government and his quest to successfully hold the conference in the face of censorship. A political whodunit based on previously secret Israel Foreign Ministry cables, this book investigates Israel's overall tragically unjust relationships to genocides of other peoples.Charny also closely examines Elie Wiesel, who remains a great hero but is seen also as interfering with recognition of other peoples' genocidal tragedies, and Shimon Peres, who opposed recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Additional chapters by three famous leaders—a Turk (Ragip Zarakolu), an Armenian (Richard Hovannisian), and a Jew (Michael Berenbaum)—provide added perspectives.Trade Review“In Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide, Charny… revisits the [First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide], attempts by the Foreign Ministry to torpedo it, and issues a scathing indictment of Israel’s refusal, then and now, to officially recognize genocidal wars against other peoples. … [S]erious consideration of Charny’s claim – ‘the basic and horrendous commonality’ in all genocides, including the Armenian tragedy, should override obsessions about uniqueness and a consensus definition of the ‘category name’ – is as urgently necessary as it has ever been. … Charny makes a compelling case that the principal reason Israeli leaders opposed the conference was their determination to keep the Holocaust, the ‘unbearable cataclysmic tragedy’ of the Jewish people, ‘at the ultimate untouchable apex of a hierarchy of genocidal suffering... the greatest evil ever seen in human history.’ … Irrepressibly candid and combative at age 91, Charny has thrown down the gauntlet.”— Glenn C. Altschuler, The Jerusalem Post“Charny, one of the founders of the modern study of genocide and a strong fighter for the Armenians against the denial of their genocide by the Turks, does many things in this relatively short book [including] a denunciation of Israel’s support of nations and leaders who have committed genocidal acts. This brilliant book by a scholar and activist … tells a tale full of flame and fury but with a wisdom accumulated over nearly a century of living the ethics that he upholds—Charny is indefatigable, relentless and humanitarian.” —Jack Nusan Porter, The Jerusalem PostTable of ContentsTable of ContentsPrefaceOne is Either for Human Life or NotForewordWho Really Lied? The Turks, Armenians, and Jews Revisited Yair Auron IntroductionSummary: The “Good Guys” (Israel) Turn Out to be the Bigger LiarsChapter 1: The First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in June 1982 in Tel Aviv Was a Milestone Event on Many Levels Supplement 1: Program of Conference—How does One Summarize the Learning that Took Place at the First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide? Supplement 2: Responses of Participants in the First International Conference on the Holocaust and GenocideSupplement 3: Press and Other Public Responses to the First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, June 1982Supplement 4: “Their Holocaust,” Amos Elon, Haaretz, June 11, 1982Chapter 2: The Conference Really Did Take Place and Very MeaningfullySupplement: Letters Confronting Prime Minister Shimon Peres who Opposed the Conference, and in Later Years Continued Opposition to Recognizing the Armenian GenocideChapter 3: What was Elie Wiesel’s Real Position about the Armenians and about Addressing the Genocides of Many Non-Jewish Peoples Alongside the Holocaust?Supplement: Gallery of Correspondence with Elie WieselChapter 4: Critique: How Should We Have Handled the Threats to Jewish Lives? Chapter 5: Israel’s Tragically Immoral Denials of, and indifference to, the Genocides of Other PeoplesChapter 6: Israel’s Denial-Concealment of the Cruelty, Genocidal Expulsions, and Massacres of Arabs in the Nonetheless Entirely Just War of Independence: A Striking Chapter of the Universal Challenge to All Peoples to Respect and Protect LifeThree Contemporary Updates: The Voices of a Distinguished Contemporary Turk, an Armenian, and a JewChapter 7: A Contemporary Turk: Ragip Zarakolu—The Banality of DenialChapter 8: A Contemporary Armenian: Richard G. Hovannisian: The Armenian Genocide and Extreme Denial Chapter 9: A Contemporary Jew: Michael Berenbaum—The Armenian Genocide, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and IsraelChapter 10: Israel’s Continuing Denial of the Armenian GenocideRaphael Ahren, “Why Israel Still Refuses to Recognize a Century-Old Genocide,” Times of Israel, April 24, 2015Israel Charny with Yair Auron, “If Not Now, When Will Israel Recognize the Armenian Genocide?,” California Courier January 9, 2020Supplementary Chapter 11: Marc I. Sherman: Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem—Highlights of the Story of the First Institute on Genocide in the WorldAfterwordStanding Up for Truth and Justice against Excessive Power Acknowledgments and Heartfelt ThanksAbout the AuthorIndexTen Commandments for Sovereign Nations and Genocide Scholars Samuel Totten

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Book SynopsisWhen the Turks demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit, demanding the same of the then forthcoming First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide. This book follows the author's gutsy campaign against the Israeli government and his quest to successfully hold the conference in the face of censorship. A political whodunit based on previously secret Israel Foreign Ministry cables, this book investigates Israel's overall tragically unjust relationships to genocides of other peoples.Charny also closely examines Elie Wiesel, who remains a great hero but is seen also as interfering with recognition of other peoples' genocidal tragedies, and Shimon Peres, who opposed recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Additional chapters by three famous leaders—a Turk (Ragip Zarakolu), an Armenian (Richard Hovannisian), and a Jew (Michael Berenbaum)—provide added perspectives.Trade Review“In Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide, Charny… revisits the [First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide], attempts by the Foreign Ministry to torpedo it, and issues a scathing indictment of Israel’s refusal, then and now, to officially recognize genocidal wars against other peoples. … [S]erious consideration of Charny’s claim – ‘the basic and horrendous commonality’ in all genocides, including the Armenian tragedy, should override obsessions about uniqueness and a consensus definition of the ‘category name’ – is as urgently necessary as it has ever been. … Charny makes a compelling case that the principal reason Israeli leaders opposed the conference was their determination to keep the Holocaust, the ‘unbearable cataclysmic tragedy’ of the Jewish people, ‘at the ultimate untouchable apex of a hierarchy of genocidal suffering... the greatest evil ever seen in human history.’ … Irrepressibly candid and combative at age 91, Charny has thrown down the gauntlet.”— Glenn C. Altschuler, The Jerusalem Post“Charny, one of the founders of the modern study of genocide and a strong fighter for the Armenians against the denial of their genocide by the Turks, does many things in this relatively short book [including] a denunciation of Israel’s support of nations and leaders who have committed genocidal acts. This brilliant book by a scholar and activist … tells a tale full of flame and fury but with a wisdom accumulated over nearly a century of living the ethics that he upholds—Charny is indefatigable, relentless and humanitarian.” —Jack Nusan Porter, The Jerusalem PostTable of ContentsTable of ContentsPrefaceOne is Either for Human Life or NotForewordWho Really Lied? The Turks, Armenians, and Jews Revisited Yair Auron IntroductionSummary: The “Good Guys” (Israel) Turn Out to be the Bigger LiarsChapter 1: The First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in June 1982 in Tel Aviv Was a Milestone Event on Many Levels Supplement 1: Program of Conference—How does One Summarize the Learning that Took Place at the First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide? Supplement 2: Responses of Participants in the First International Conference on the Holocaust and GenocideSupplement 3: Press and Other Public Responses to the First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, June 1982Supplement 4: “Their Holocaust,” Amos Elon, Haaretz, June 11, 1982Chapter 2: The Conference Really Did Take Place and Very MeaningfullySupplement: Letters Confronting Prime Minister Shimon Peres who Opposed the Conference, and in Later Years Continued Opposition to Recognizing the Armenian GenocideChapter 3: What was Elie Wiesel’s Real Position about the Armenians and about Addressing the Genocides of Many Non-Jewish Peoples Alongside the Holocaust?Supplement: Gallery of Correspondence with Elie WieselChapter 4: Critique: How Should We Have Handled the Threats to Jewish Lives? Chapter 5: Israel’s Tragically Immoral Denials of, and indifference to, the Genocides of Other PeoplesChapter 6: Israel’s Denial-Concealment of the Cruelty, Genocidal Expulsions, and Massacres of Arabs in the Nonetheless Entirely Just War of Independence: A Striking Chapter of the Universal Challenge to All Peoples to Respect and Protect LifeThree Contemporary Updates: The Voices of a Distinguished Contemporary Turk, an Armenian, and a JewChapter 7: A Contemporary Turk: Ragip Zarakolu—The Banality of DenialChapter 8: A Contemporary Armenian: Richard G. Hovannisian: The Armenian Genocide and Extreme Denial Chapter 9: A Contemporary Jew: Michael Berenbaum—The Armenian Genocide, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and IsraelChapter 10: Israel’s Continuing Denial of the Armenian GenocideRaphael Ahren, “Why Israel Still Refuses to Recognize a Century-Old Genocide,” Times of Israel, April 24, 2015Israel Charny with Yair Auron, “If Not Now, When Will Israel Recognize the Armenian Genocide?,” California Courier January 9, 2020Supplementary Chapter 11: Marc I. Sherman: Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem—Highlights of the Story of the First Institute on Genocide in the WorldAfterwordStanding Up for Truth and Justice against Excessive Power Acknowledgments and Heartfelt ThanksAbout the AuthorIndexTen Commandments for Sovereign Nations and Genocide Scholars Samuel Totten

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Book SynopsisThe Rohingya Crisis is now in its fifth year with no end in sight. While the international community has supported the displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh by providing humanitarian assistance, what is needed now is to investigate the short-and long-term implications of the crisis from the host country's perspective. Also, it is imperative to examine the current political situation, which was caused by the Myanmar military coup in February 2021. It has cast a dark shadow on the possibility of a negotiated repatriation. In this volume, scholars from Bangladesh and Canada have reflected upon the security situation, the pandemic’s impact on the Rohingyas, inter-group conflict, environmental impact and burden sharing aspects, the informal labor situation, NGO intervention for resilience mapping, and diaspora activities. For both academics and policymakers who work in the fields of conflict resolution and peacebuilding, this book will show how not intervening early in a crisis can have long-term consequences.Table of ContentsPart I: Rohingya Diaspora Activism, Conflict Intervention, and SecurityChapter 1: Are Forcibly Displaced Rohingyas a National Security Threat to Bangladesh? A Perspective by Kawser AhmedChapter 2: Intra-Group Conflict Among Rohingya Displaced People in Bangladesh by Rafiqul Islam, Muhammad Mazedul Haque, and Umme WaraChapter 3: Rohingya Crisis is Turning into a Protracted Refugee Challenge by Abdullah Yusuf, Roberta Dumitriu, and Mehdi ChowdhuryChapter 4: The Rohingya Diaspora in Canada: Activiste Sans Frontiere by Kawser AhmedPart II: COVID-19, Its Impact on Rohingyas and Host Country PredicamentsChapter 5: The Rohingyas during COVID-19: Belief System, Governance, and Future Policy by Nurul Huda Sakib and Bulbul SiddiqiChapter 6: The “Dynamic Duo” of Stigmatization: Impacts of COVID-19 on the Rohingya and Host Communities by Kawser AhmedChapter 7: COVID-19 and Informal Labor: What are the Impacts on the Rohingyas and the Host Communities in Bangladesh? by Faria Ahmed and Nurul Huda SakibChapter 8: An NGO Intervention Outlook Toward Rohingya Female Adolescents’ “Participatory Resilience Mapping” by Helal MohiuddinChapter 9: Cost of Burden Sharing: The Socio-Environmental Impacts of the Rohingya Displacement in Bangladesh by Nahreen I. Khan and Kawser AhmedConclusion by Kawser Ahmed and Helal Mohiuddin

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Book SynopsisGenocidal Conscription examines how some states have employed mandatory military service as a tool to capture and kill the victims of genocide by recruiting the perpetrators from other minorities, and shifting blame away from the state. The book highlights several unique intersections that connect military history, Holocaust studies, and genocide. The study details an original framework that encompasses intentions and outcomes of wartime casualties, Clausewitzian wastage, and genocidal massacres. Christopher Harrison traces and compares how two genocidal regimes at war – the Ottoman Empire during World War One and Axis-era Hungary in World War Two – implemented certain policies of military service to capture and destroy their targets amidst the carnage of modern warfare. Following this historical comparative study, the author then summarizes relevant implications and ongoing concerns. The conclusion includes insights into conscription by contemporary authoritarian regimes. By examining these histories and crises, the book suggests that several states are at risk of carrying out genocidal conscription today. While difficult and unlikely, due to political disincentives, the implication of this analysis considers reforms which may prevent states from repeating similar policies and actions again.Trade Review“Christopher Harrison has extended the way in which we can consider what genocide entails--in this case, through the forced impressment of unwanted segments of a society in the expectation that they will be killed. By looking at case studies from the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust in Hungary, Harrison's is a brave study that deserves to be read with a view to aiding deeper understanding of this most terrible of phenomena.” -- Paul R. Bartrop, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research Florida Gulf Coast University and Honorary Principal Fellow in History University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsPart I: Genocide, Conscription, and the Wastage of WarChapter 1: Conscription for War and Genocide?Chapter 2: Historical Developments of Modern Conscripted WarfarePart II: Genocidal ConscriptionChapter 3: Genocide by WastageChapter 4: Conscription by the Ottoman Empire in World War OneChapter 5: Axis-Era Hungary’s Conscripts of World War TwoPart III: Analysis, Contemporary Concerns, and ConclusionsChapter 6: Comparative FindingsChapter 7: Potential Cases Today and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe Turkish government under the Erdoğan regime is undertaking a brutal crackdown against the participants of a civic group, namely the Gülen movement, also known as the Hizmet (service) movement, with the deliberate intention of destroying this social group, in whole or in part. In this extensive research, Dr. Keneş argues that this crackdown is filled with violations that may be classified at the very least as crimes against humanity and could very well be the harbinger of what comes next in terms of a full-scale genocide to exterminate thousands of innocent people. Keneş exemplifies many of these crimes and scales them against the genocide criteria according to definitions and norms accepted by United Nations and field experts.Given that the international community has historically downplayed the early signs of genocidal acts and thus failed to prevent such crimes many times before, it is necessary to be on the alert before the Erdoğan regime goes that far. A Genocide in the Making? is a unique volume that loudly cries out to the world this highly probable risk before it is too late.

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Book SynopsisISIS’s genocidal attack on the Yezidi population in northern Iraq in 2014 brought the world’s attention to the small faith that numbers less than one million worldwide. That summer ISIS massacred Yezidi men and enslaved women and children. More than one hundred thousand Yezidis were besieged on Sinjar Mountain. The US began airstrikes to roll back ISIS, citing a duty to save the Yezidis, but the genocide is still ongoing. The headlines have moved on but thousands of Yezidi women and children remain in captivity, and many more are still displaced. Sinjar is now free from ISIS but the Yezidi homeland is at the centre of growing tensions amongst the city’s liberators, making returning home for the Yezidis almost impossible. The mass abduction of Yezidi women and children is here conveyed with extraordinary intensity in the first-hand reporting of a young journalist who has been based in Iraqi Kurdistan for the past four years, covering the war with ISIS and its impact on the people of the country. Otten tells the story of the ISIS attacks, the mass enslavements of Yezidi women and the fallout from the disaster. She challenges common perceptions of Yezidi female victimhood by focusing on stories of resistance passed down by generations. Yezidi women describe how, in the recent conflict, they followed the tradition of their ancestors who, a century ago during persecutions at the fall of the Ottoman empire, put ash on their faces to make themselves unattractive and try to avoid being raped. Today, over 3,000 Yezidi women and girls remain in the Caliphate where they are bought and sold, and passed between fighters as chattel. But many others have escaped or been released. Otten bases her book on interviews with these survivors, as well as those who smuggled them to safety, painstakingly piecing together their accounts of enslavement. Their deeply moving personal narratives bring alive a human tragedy.Trade ReviewPraise for the hardback: “This is an intelligent and perceptive book about one of the great tragedies of our age. It is also an inspiring story of resistance and survival that everybody should read.” —Patrick Cockburn “The best kind of humanist journalism: lucid, transparent, grimly realistic.… (N)o book has covered it better.” —Ryan Boyd, Los Angeles Review of Books “Contemporary testimony [grounded in a] wealth of historical context ... an urgently necessary chronicle of the Yazidi genocide.” —Times Literary Supplement “Woven through with heart-breaking, terrifying accounts of its survivors, and demanding an understanding of their community’s historical persecution, Otten’s searing chronicle of ISIS’ genocide of the Yezidis is compelling and devastatingly necessary.” —Sareta Ashraph, former Analyst, UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria “There are two constants in the modern history of genocides: they are recognized too late and their victims, particularly if they are women, are presented as passive sufferers. Cathy Otten’s important and morally urgent book tells the story of an ongoing crime and a history of strength and resistance. Told with great care but with neither sentiment nor sensationalism, With Ash on Their Faces, needs to be read by all those who care about justice—and by those too occupied with global power to care.” —Lyndsey Stonebridge, author of The Judicial Imagination “Otten tells the Yezidis’ remarkable story with a deft and detailed hand in this revealing account of suffering, endurance and survival. An essential read for anyone interested in the plight and resilience of one of Iraq’s most persecuted minorities.” —Anthony Loyd

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Book SynopsisWinner of The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022 Winner of The Michel Déon Prize 2022 Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award 2022 Winner of the An Post Irish Book Award for Nonfiction 2022 A Financial Times Best Political Book of 2022 A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of 2022 The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall with hundreds of others. Now, the city around them was crumbling in a scrimmage between warring factions, and they remained stuck, defenseless, with only one remaining hope: contacting her. Hayden had inadvertently stumbled onto a human rights disaster of epic proportions. From this single message begins a staggering account of the migrant crisis across North Africa, in a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism. With unprecedented access to people currently inside Libyan detention centers, Hayden’s book is based on interviews with hundreds of refugees and migrants who tried to reach Europe and found themselves stuck in Libya once the EU started funding interceptions in 2017. It is an intimate portrait of life for these detainees, as well as a condemnation of NGOs and the United Nations, whose abdication of international standards will echo throughout history. But most importantly, My Fourth Time, We Drowned shines a light on the resilience of humans: how refugees and migrants locked up for years fall in love, support each other through the hardest times, and carry out small acts of resistance in order to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.

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Book SynopsisThis study deals with the phenomenon of genocide denialism, and in particular how it operates in the context of the genocide against the Tutsi. The term genocide denialism denotes that we are not dealing with a single act or type of (genocide) denial but with a more elaborate process of denial that involves a variety of denialist and denial-like acts that are part of the process of genocide. From this study it becomes clear that the process of genocide thrives on a more elaborate denial dynamic than recognized in expert literature until now. This study consists of three parts. The first theoretical part analyses what the elements of denial and genocide entail and how they are (inter)related. The exploration results in a typology of genocide denialism. This model clarifies the different functions denial performs throughout the process of genocide. It furthermore explains how actors engage in denial and on which rhetorical devices speech acts of denial rely. The second part of the study focuses on denial in practice and it analyses how denial operates in the particular case of the genocide against the Tutsi. The analysis reveals a complex denial dynamic: not only those who perpetrated the genocide are involved in its denial, but also certain Western scholars, journalists, lawyers, etc. The latter were originally not involved in the genocide but recycle (elements of) the denial discourse of the perpetrators. The study addresses the implications of such recycling and discusses whether these actors actually have become involved in the genocidal process. This sheds light on the complex relationship between genocide and denial. The insights gained throughout the first two parts of this study have significant implications for many other actors that through their actions engage with the flow of meaning concerning the specific events in Rwanda or genocide in general. The final part of this study critically reflects on the actions of a variety of actors and their significance in terms of genocide denialism. These actors include scholars from various fields, human rights organisations, the ICTR, and the government of Rwanda. On a more fundamental level this study critically highlights how the revisionist scientific climate, in which knowledge and truth claims are constantly questioned, is favourable to genocide denialism and how the post-modern turn in academia has exacerbated this climate. Ultimately, this study reveals that the phenomenon of genocide denial involves more than perpetrators denying their genocidal crimes and the scope of actors and actions relevant in terms of genocide denialism is much broader than generally assumed.

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Book SynopsisOne man's amazing story of how God protected and provided for him in the midst of the Burundian civil war and brought him to a place of grace, forgiveness and restoration. Theodore Mbazumutima was forced to flee from his native Burundi when tensions between Hutus and Tutsis escalated. Theo's dangerous and incredible journey fleeing civil war is an amazing testimony of God's miraculous intervention, protection and guidance. Despite experiencing suffering first hand, God has brought Theo to such a place of forgiveness that he is now a peace-worker bringing reconciliation to the Burundian people. My Country Wept reminds us that when we submit to God's plan for our lives, he can rescue us from any circumstances and work in every situation. Content Benefits: Escaping murderous mobs in the Burundi civil war to Theo's return to his country to help his own people, this is a truly stunning account of the provision of God, and of grace and forgiveness. An eye opening account of the effect of the Burundian civil war on ordinary people Follows the desperate escape from civil unrest and refugee camps in Africa Inspirational testimony of Theo's faith and God's unfailing love even in the darkest situations Demonstrates how faith in God can sustain us throughout extraordinary trials Shows how God intervenes in our lives through the power of prayer Reveals the power of forgiveness Theo is now Director of Rema Ministries, a peace-building organisation committed to the rights of people in forced displacement situations, particularly refugees, the internally displaced and returnees Perfect for anyone who loves reading biographies Ideal reading for those who love to hear testimonies of God at work in the world Perfect gift idea for men, Father's Day Binding - Paperback Pages - 240 Publisher - Authentic Media

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Book Synopsis Why did the Armenian genocide erupt in Turkey in 1915, only seven years after the Armenian minority achieved civil equality for the first time in the history of the Ottoman Empire? How can we explain the Rwandan genocide occurring in 1994, after decades of relative peace and even cooperation between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority? Addressing the question of how the risk of genocide develops over time, On the Path to Genocide contributes to a better understand why genocide occurs when it does. It provides a comprehensive and comparative historical analysis of the factors that led to the 1915 Armenian genocide and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, using fresh sources and perspectives that yield new insights into the history of the Armenian and Rwandan peoples. Finally, it also presents new research into constraints that inhibit genocide, and how they can be utilized to attempt the prevention of genocide in the future. Trade Review “Mayersen has written a fine text… Ultimately, Mayersen concludes that genocides are ‘fundamentally preventable’ and offers insights into prevention. The text is well organized, thoroughly researched, and brings to bear important new perspectives on genocide studies. – Highly recommended.” · Choice “This is an excellent book. The combination of theory and context works well…The prose is sharp and the author has set up the problem in a logical way that is easy to follow. It also benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. Her grasp of detail is superior to many theorists…It reads very fluently, the author is clearly a gifted prose writer. The thread of argument runs through the book in a compelling way…The conclusion is full of intriguing ties to other case studies and the author summarizes her argument well.” · Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: ‘The Symptoms of an Explosive Situation’: The Temporal Model of Genocide THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE Chapter 1.‘Trying Desperately to Escape History’: The Armenian Question Chapter 2. ‘A Settled Plan to Slowly Exterminate’: The Hamidian Massacres Chapter 3. ‘They will have to be Destroyed’: From Massacre to Genocide THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE Chapter 4. ‘A European under Black Skin’: Pre-colonial and Colonial Rwanda Chapter 5. ‘A Massive Rejection of the Tutsi as Fellow Nationals’: Race, Violence and Independence Chapter 6. ‘A Cockroach gives birth to another Cockroach’: From Coexistence to Extermination THE PATH TO GENOCIDE Chapter 7. ‘Driven by Ethnic Exclusivism’: On the Timing of Genocide Chapter 8. ‘Our only Hope, therefore, rests on the Obstacle’: Constraints Against Genocide Chapter 9. ‘A Pattern ... Repeated Numerous Times’: The Wider Applicability of the Temporal Model Conclusion: ‘We are all Brothers’: The Temporal Model and Genocide Prevention Bibliography Index

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