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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-15T05:31:25Z
dc.date.available2022-01-15T05:31:25Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52460
dc.description.abstractWhy 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rightsen_US
dc.subject.otherPolitical Science
dc.subject.otherHuman Rights
dc.titleThe Complexity of Evil
dc.title.alternativePerpetration and Genocide
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy111d1c48-fc70-44ba-97fa-39be459ee343
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781978814332
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintRutgers University Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/1e0e830b-3c87-4a84-a563-5790a6aa333f
oapen.identifier.isbn9781978814332
grantor.number104973


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