The Complexity of Evil Perpetration and Genocide

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Title

The Complexity of Evil Perpetration and Genocide

Subject

Psychology

Description

Why 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.

Creator

Timothy Williams

Source

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.36019/9781978814332/html

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Date

2021

Contributor

Prasetyo Adi Nugroho

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978814332
ISBN: 9781978814332

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