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Friday, 4 Jun 2021
Book review: The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression

by A. Dirk Moses, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 598 pp. On March 23, 2021鈥攋ust over ten years from the day the UN Security Council authorized the United States and NATO intervention in Libya鈥攖he US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held a hearing on Samantha Power鈥檚 nomination to lead the ...

Friday, 10 Jul 2015
The Genocide in Srebrenica

On 11 July this year, a number of heads of state and foreign ministers, including聽Bill Clinton, will meet on a plain seven kilometres outside Srebrenica. They will be there to commemorate the fact that it is twenty years since over 8000 men and boys were killed while the women were ...

Tuesday, 27 Jan 2015
Can we Comprehend the Incomprehensible?

In 1945, most of us believed that genocide could never happen again. What happened to Jews and Roma (Gypsies) made such a strong impression on us that we believed that the time was definitively past when people murdered each other simply because they belonged to different races or followed different ...

Sunday, 2 Nov 2014
Measuring, 鈥淒enying鈥� & 鈥淭rivializing鈥� Deaths in the Case of Rwanda

Reading 鈥淭he Reign of 鈥楾error鈥� by Tomis Kapitan in the New York Times on October 19th, I was struck by the following passage: 鈥�the rhetoric of 鈥渢error鈥� has had these effects: It erases any incentive the public might have to understand the nature and origins of their grievances so that ...