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The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide(Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)

The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide(Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)


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Why do people participate in genocide? The Complexity of Evil responds to this fundamental question by drawing on political science, sociology, criminology, anthropology, social psychology, and history to develop a model which can explain perpetration across various different cases. Focusing in particular on the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, The Complexity of Evil model draws on, systematically sorts, and causally orders a wealth of scholarly literature and supplements it with original field research data from interviews with former members of the Khmer Rouge. The model is systematic and abstract, as well as empirically grounded, providing a tool for understanding the micro-foundations of various cases of genocide. Ultimately this model highlights that the motivations for perpetrating genocide are both complex in their diversity and banal in their ordinariness and mundanity.

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Table of Contents:
Contents
List of Abbreviations 
Introduction   
Vignette 1 Chandara: a fearful volunteer enters the tiger zone         
1          The complexity of evil – introducing the model       
Vignette 2 Sokong: a coerced killer with a conscience         
2          Motivations    
Vignette 3 Sokphary: a female unit leader with a sense of responsibility for her subordinates       
3          Facilitative factors     
Vignette 4 Sopheak: an interrogator searching to unearth enemy strings     
4          Contextual conditions
Vignette 5 Sokha: a child guard the regime turned on          
5          Diversity, complexity, scope – discussing the model and its empirical application 
Vignette 6 Ramy: a garment worker participating in the evacuation of Phnom Penh          
Conclusion     
Appendix: List of interviewees          
Acknowledgments     
Glossary         
Bibliography  
Index
 

About the Author :
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS is a junior professor of insecurity and social order at the Bundeswehr University Munich in Munich, Germany. His work has won awards from the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the German Peace Psychologist Association, and Marburg University. He is the coeditor, with Susanne Buckley-Zistel, of Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics.
 

Review :
“Confronting the most challenging moral and historical questions in our field, The Complexity of Evil is exceptionally insightful and wise. Based upon extensive research and deep thought, this book is also remarkably accessible. Williams never loses sight of the human implications of his study, and has made a pathbreaking contribution.” 
  - John Cox (author of To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century) "The Complexity of Evil is a thorough and systematic exploration of genocide perpetration that that marries conceptual precision with a nuanced exploration of the Cambodian Genocide and other case studies. In perhaps his greatest contribution, Williams avoids reproducing conventional wisdom by thoughtfully exploring the complexities of perpetrator motivations in each context."
  - Kjell Anderson (author of Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account) "This timely book-grounded in extensive qualitative fieldwork in Cambodia and comparison with the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwandan genocide-offers rich insights for the fields of perpetrator studies and genocide studies. Williams’s complexity of evil model helps us better understand the personal circumstances through which people become perpetrators, while acknowledging the potential for them to simultaneously be victims, bystanders, rescuers, and so on."
  - Erin Jessee (author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda: The Politics of History)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781978814301
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 467 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1978814305
  • Publisher Date: 18 Dec 2020
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
  • Sub Title: Perpetration and Genocide
  • Width: 156 mm


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