1st Edition
Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence Action, Motivations and Dynamics
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?
Biography
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.
"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
