Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide - Hardcover

Waller, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199300704 ISBN 13: 9780199300709

Publisher: OUP USA, 2016

Synopsis

Presents a fascinating continuum of research-informed strategies to prevent genocide from ever taking place; to avert further atrocities once mass murder occurs; and to prevent further turmoil once a society learns how to rebuild itself

About this title

About the Author

Dr. James Waller is the Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College in New Hampshire and Director of Academic Programs with the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. Waller's book on perpetrators of genocide, Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (Oxford University Press, 2002; revised and updated 2nd edition, 2007), was praised by Publisher's Weekly for "clearly and effectively synthesizing a wide range of studies to develop an original and persuasive model of the process by which people can become evil." Waller is a member of the advisory board for the International Association of Genocide Scholars and he also serves on the board of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, as an editor-in-chief for Genocide Studies and Prevention, and as a member of the international Genocide Prevention Advisory Network.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199300704
• ISBN 13: 9780199300709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424