Extraordinary Evil: Why Genocide Happens - Hardcover

Coloroso, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568583710 ISBN 13: 9781568583716

Publisher: Nation Books, 2007

Synopsis

From best-selling author Barbara Coloroso comes a timely and essential book about genocide. Through an examination of three clearly defined genocides the Armenian and Rwandan genocides, and the European Holocaust Coloroso deconstructs the causes and consequences, both to its immediate victims and to the fabric of the world at large, and proposes the conditions that must exist in order to eradicate this evil from the world. Coloroso is well known for her best-selling books that explore why children bully. In Extraordinary Evil she builds upon that research to explain why the impulse to bully is mirrored by the act of genocide. By linking the psychology of the bully to the motivation that leads a community to murder, Coloroso provides devastating and vital insight into why people kill their neighbors. Based on the author's 15 years of research and extensive travel, Extraordinary Evil is an urgently needed work in an age when acts of genocide seem to occur more frequently and are in the public's consciousness more than ever before.

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Review:

"Barbara Coloroso has spent her entire life fighting for social justice and equality. Her work is an astonishing encyclopedia of causes: from the bullying of children to the genocide in Rwanda. Nothing escapes the unsparing force of her intellect, the gentle generosity of her soul, and her passion to shape a better world."

About the Author:

Barbara Coloroso is an internationally recognized speaker and author in the areas of parenting, teaching, school discipline, nonviolent conflict resolution, reconciliatory justice, and grieving. Her bestselling books include Parenting through Crisis; The Bully, The Bullied, and the Bystander; and Kids Are Worth It!. A former Franciscan nun, she now lives with her husband and three teenagers in Littleton, Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nation Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1568583710
• ISBN 13: 9781568583716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272