Interesting news out of Guatemala today. Efraín Ríos Montt, the former genocidal president and darling of right-wing America, will be forced to appear before a Guatemalan court, a move that could lead to charges of genocide. It's difficult to overstate how deep the United States...
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If you're looking for something to read forInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day, let me humbly suggest Adam Jones' volume Evoking Genocide, which has won a 2010 Outstanding Academic Title Award by.
Back from vacation and back on the grid. Hmm, what have I missed in the last couple of weeks? 1) Ooh, looks like the BP oil spill is capped for.
JEM fighters will put down their arms for the opportunity to join the Sudanese army at 500 euros a head. Perhaps this will slow conflict-related violence in the region, perhaps not. Human Security Report data from earlier this year reminded us that most of the...
Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch explains yesterday's decision of the International Criminal Court's Appeals Chamber to require the Pre-Trial Chamber to reconsider including the crime of genocide in the.
You will not believe this 1934 New Yorker cartoon my friend Adam Jones dug up. What a difference a few decades makes. Jones writes about mass killing and has one.
It's certainly possible that Neanderthal X died in a violent confrontation with modern humans. However, I think that there's always a danger in reading our own social understandings into a historical record. There are innumerable scenarios under which the Neanderthal in question could have died,...
Radovan Karadzic. Good deal. More from Hilzoy and Doug.