Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach - Softcover

Mayersen, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009692976 ISBN 13: 9781009692977

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

It is a promising time for genocide prevention. Increasing amounts of research, and resources, have led to significant advances over the past two decades. Yet we still lack vital knowledge as to the most effective ways to stabilise and reduce the risk of genocide in current at-risk societies. This volume offers a compelling new approach: to understand how to prevent genocide, we need to examine societies in which genocide has been prevented. It is in these societies – in which a demonstrably high risk of genocide was present, but in which genocide did not occur – that we can potentially find key factors that promote resilience to genocide. The volume explores six such case studies, spanning three continents and seven decades. Through careful analysis it identifies eleven factors that have contributed to preventing genocide in multiple cases, and which have the potential to inform current approaches to prevention. Collectively, these offer a new, evidence-based approach to preventing genocide.

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About the Author

Deborah Mayersen is a Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at the University of New South Wales Canberra, at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Her research focuses on how genocides occur, the antecedents to genocide, and genocide prevention. She is the author of On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined (2014), three edited collections, and more than thirty journal articles and book chapters. She is the co-editor of Cambridge Elements in Genocide Studies. She regularly consults for NGOs in the field of atrocity prevention, and has provided expert advice to multiple governments on atrocity prevention and response.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009692976
• ISBN 13: 9781009692977
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342