Project MUSE®: Genocide Studies and Prevention

Project MUSE®: Genocide Studies and Prevention - Latest Articles https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/439 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Genocide Studies and Prevention. daily 1 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 1 (2006) through Vol. 7 (2012) Latest Articles: Genocide Studies and Prevention TWO Project MUSE® Genocide Studies and Prevention 1911-9933 1911-0359 Latest articles in Genocide Studies and Prevention. Feed provided by Project MUSE® Editor’s Introduction https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490264 The present issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention is a combined issue. Since the previous two volumes, “60 Years after the Ratification of the Genocide Convention: Critical Reflections on the State and Future of Genocide Studies, Parts 1 and 2” were longer than usual, the editors decided to combine Volume 7, Issues 2 and 3 into a single issue. It is a general issue containing a wide variety of material and should be, we hope, of interest to a broad range of readers. This issue continues the tradition followed by Genocide Studies and Prevention throughout its now seven years of publication as a peer-reviewed, print journal dedicated to publishing a wide variety of high-quality manuscripts ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490271">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/439/image/coversmall Editor’s Introduction 2012-11-16 text/html en-US Editor’s Introduction 2012-11-16 2012 TWO Project MUSE® 7386 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 2012-11-16 State-Induced Famine and Penal Starvation in North Korea https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490265 Scholars of genocide know that it is not unusual for governments to kill their own citizens, but two ways that states do this have remained relatively unstudied. The first method is state-induced famine—that is, state policies that create famine. The second is penal starvation—state policies to starve prisoners to death. David Marcus coined the term faminogenesis to describe public policies that generate famine, using Amartya Sen’s definition of famine as a “particularly virulent manifestation of [starvation] causing widespread death.”1 Marcus presents a typology of four levels of faminogenic behavior: intentional famine (deliberately using famine as means of extermination), reckless famine (continuing ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490271">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/439/image/coversmall State-Induced Famine and Penal Starvation in North Korea 2012-11-16 text/html en-US State-Induced Famine and Penal Starvation in North Korea 2012-11-16 2012 TWO Project MUSE® 128817 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 2012-11-16 A System, Society, and Community Perspective on Genocide https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490266 This article incorporates the concept of genocide into Martin Wight’s “three traditions” framework in order to put forward a realist–international system, a rationalist– international society, and a cosmopolitan–international community perspective on genocide in international relations (IR).1 The value of this approach is that it enables a three-way dialogue to be forged between competing worldviews that highlights how the assumptions embodied within one’s view of international relations shapes one’s understanding of issues such as justice, power, and, in this context, genocide. The utility of Wight’s approach has seen an upsurge in the three traditions literature over the past two decades as scholars have ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490271">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/439/image/coversmall A System, Society, and Community Perspective on Genocide 2012-11-16 text/html en-US A System, Society, and Community Perspective on Genocide 2012-11-16 2012 TWO Project MUSE® 161809 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 2012-11-16 The True Measure of Success: The Leadership of Roméo Dallaire in the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490267 Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire’s United Nations (UN) mission to Rwanda is often interpreted through the prism of the genocide that exploded months after the peacekeeping force arrived. The majority of the literature on the mission, including official UN summary publications, has focused on the colonial and pre-1990s national conflicts, glossing over the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) until the onset of the genocide on 6 April 1994.1 In this context, the plane crash that killed President Juvénal Habyarimana and marked the beginning of the 100-day massacre became just another step toward chaos for the troubled nation. This paper will argue that this view places undue blame on UNAMIR’s military ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490271">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/439/image/coversmall The True Measure of Success: The Leadership of Roméo Dallaire in the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda 2012-11-16 text/html en-US The True Measure of Success: The Leadership of Roméo Dallaire in the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda 2012-11-16 2012 TWO Project MUSE® 109855 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 2012-11-16 Foreshadowing Future Slaughter: From the Indonesian Killings of 1965–1966 to the 1974–1999 Genocide in East Timor https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490268 After World War II, as the full extent of the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis during the Holocaust came to light, there was a sweeping sentiment of “Never again.” Never again could a state be allowed to attempt such human destruction. The Nuremberg trials brought convictions for crimes against humanity, the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG) was adopted in 1948, and memorials were built around the world. Yet, in a sense, the Holocaust itself was an example of “again.” Not only did it come in the wake of the Armenian Genocide,1 but Germans themselves had already committed genocide in the twentieth century through their slaughter of the Herero and Nama ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490271">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/439/image/coversmall Foreshadowing Future Slaughter: From the Indonesian Killings of 1965–1966 to the 1974–1999 Genocide in East Timor 2012-11-16 text/html en-US Foreshadowing Future Slaughter: From the Indonesian Killings of 1965–1966 to the 1974–1999 Genocide in East Timor 2012-11-16 2012 TWO Project MUSE® 152307 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 2012-11-16 Thy Brother’s Keeper?: The Relationship between Social Distance and Intensity of Dehumanization during Genocide https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490269 In her seminal work on genocide, Helen Fein defines the phenomenon as the “sustained purposeful action by a perpetrator to physically destroy a collective directly or indirectly, through interdiction of the biological and social reproduction of group members, sustained regardless of the surrender or lack of threat offered by the victim.”2 Genocide and other forms of mass killing have recurred frequently over the past 50 years. Events in Rwanda and Darfur, for instance, are just two examples of recent genocidal events that have left the international community in shock.3 Surprisingly perhaps, the perpetrators of this barbarity are neither extraordinary nor particularly prone to pathology and/or insanity. Rather ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490271">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/439/image/coversmall Thy Brother’s Keeper?: The Relationship between Social Distance and Intensity of Dehumanization during Genocide 2012-11-16 text/html en-US Thy Brother’s Keeper?: The Relationship between Social Distance and Intensity of Dehumanization during Genocide 2012-11-16 2012 TWO Project MUSE® 178273 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 2012-11-16 The Question of an Armenian Revolution and the Radicalization of the Committee of Union and Progress toward the Armenian Genocide https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490270 Hilmar Kaiser’s latest publication, “Regional Resistance to Central Government Policies: Ahmed Djemal Pasha, the Governors of Aleppo, and Armenian Deportees in the Spring and Summer of 1915,”1 states that there never was a national Armenian revolution that seriously threatened the Ottoman Empire. This, however, is the key theory behind the main argument that previously denied the Armenian Genocide, a theory that was adopted at that time by the German allies of the Young Turk killers, against the better knowledge of their own observers on site who vehemently contradicted this, but were unable to assert themselves against their superiors. Kaiser restricts his statements mainly to the sphere of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490271">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/439/image/coversmall The Question of an Armenian Revolution and the Radicalization of the Committee of Union and Progress toward the Armenian Genocide 2012-11-16 text/html en-US The Question of an Armenian Revolution and the Radicalization of the Committee of Union and Progress toward the Armenian Genocide 2012-11-16 2012 TWO Project MUSE® 61584 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 2012-11-16 An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide, and: We Cannot Forget: Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (review) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490271 Despite all the good intentions and finely wrought promises of “never again!” in the aftermath of the Holocaust, genocide remains a scourge that won't go away. This terrible fact is supported by evidence demonstrating the large number of genocides that have occurred since the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948, the best known of which took place in Cambodia, the Former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, although there were many others. Hundreds of books have been written about the Rwandan Genocide and although far fewer have been written about the atrocities in Darfur, there are still plenty to choose from. While only deniers ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490271">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/439/image/coversmall An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide, and: We Cannot Forget: Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (review) 2012-11-16 text/html en-US An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide, and: We Cannot Forget: Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (review) 2012-11-16 2012 TWO Project MUSE® 19472 2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 2012-11-16