Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence

As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetrator research by bringing together contributions from such diverse disciplines as political science, sociology, social psychology, history, anthropology and gender studies.

"In the end, though, Straus commends the book as a wonderful, rich contribution to a research on perpetrators and the perpetration of violence (p. 209). This reviewer agrees with his judgment." Björn Krondorfer, Northern Arizona University

Autorentext

Timothy Williams is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Conflict Studies at Marburg University, Germany.

Susanne Buckley-Zistel **is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, Germany.

Inhalt

Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence an Introduction Section I: Theorising Perpetrators 1 Thinking beyond Perpetrators, Bystanders, Heroes: a Typology of Action in Genocide 2 Violence as Action 3 Theorizing Ideological Diversity in Mass Violence Section II: Motivations and Dynamics 4 Perpetrators? Political Civil Servants in the Third Reich 5 The Normality of Going to War: Aspects of Symbolic Violence in Participation and Perpetration in Civil War 6 "We No Longer Pay Heed to Humanitarian Considerations": Narratives of Perpetration in the Wehrmacht, 1941-44 7 Gender and Genocide: Assessing Differential Opportunity Structures of Perpetration in Rwanda 8 Perpetrators of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict 9 Cross-Border Perpetrator Recruitment in the Ivorian Civil War: The Motivations and Experiences of Young Burkinable Men in the Forces Nouvelles Rebel Movement 10 Judenjagd: Reassessing the Role of Ordinary Poles as Perpetrators in the Holocaust 11 Is a Comparative Theory of Perpetrators Possible?