B. Ingelaere & S. Parmentier 
Genocide, Risk and Resilience 
An Interdisciplinary Approach

This interdisciplinary volume aims to understand the linkages between the origins and aftermaths of genocide. Exploring social dynamics and human behaviour, this collection considers the interplay of various psychological, political, anthropological and historical factors at work in genocidal processes.

Table of Content

Introduction – Between Risk and Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Genocide; Bert Ingelaere, Stephan Parmentier, Jacques Haers and Barbara Segaert PART I PREVENTION AND COPING: THEORETICAL DEBATES AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS 1. The Concept of Genocide: What Are We Preventing?; Martin Shaw 2. Coping Strategies and Genocide Prevention; René Lemarchand 3. Reconsidering Root Causes: A New Framework for the Structural Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities; Stephen Mc Loughlin and Deborah Mayersen 4. Communities that Taste for More: Religion’s Best Way of Preventing Genocide; Jacques Haers SJ 5. An Ethics of Relationality: Destabilising the Exclusionary Frame of Us versus Them; Anya Topolski 6. Shared Burdens and Perpetrator-Victim Group Conciliation; Henry C. Theriault 7. Confronting the ‘Crime of Crimes’: Key Issues of Transitional Justice after Genocide; Stephan Parmentier PART II RISK AND RESILIENCE: CONTEXTUAL AND EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS 8. Genocide and the Problem of the State in Bosnia in the Twentieth Century; Cathie Carmichael 9. N’ajoutons pas la guerre à la guerre: French Responses to Genocide in Bosnia; Chris Jones 10. Finding Havens to Save Lives: Four Case Studies from the Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 1930s; Dean J. Kotlowski 11. Genocide and Property: Root Cause or Concomitant Effect?; U?ur Ümit Üngör 12. The Meaning of Monetary Reparations after a Genocide: The German-Jewish Case in the Early 1950s; Joëlle Hecker 13. Mass Amnesia: The Role of Memory after Genocide – A Case Study of Contemporary Poland; Katarzyna Szurmiak 14. Hidden Death: Rwandan Post-genocide Gacaca Justice and its Dangerous Blind Spots; Bert Ingelaere

About the author

Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia, UK Joëlle Hecker, Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris Chris Jones, University of East Anglia, UK Dean J. Kotlowski, Salisbury University, Maryland, USA Rene Lemarchand, University of Florida, USA Deborah Mayersen, University of Wollongong, Australia Stephen Mc Loughlin, Griffith University, Australia Martin Shaw, Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain Katarzyna Szurmiak, Independent Scholar Henry Theriault, Worcester State University, USA Anya Topolskim, KU Leuven University, Belgium U?ur Ümit Üngör, Utrecht University, The Nertherlands ?