The Far Side of Revenge

We are political science professors and students who wish to understand processes of mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Idolatry

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There is a statue of Bill Clinton in Kosovo. And there is a George W. Bush St. in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Clinton in Bosnia, Kosovo

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There's something rather condescending about Westerners traveling to post-conflict areas devastated by genocide and giving a pep talk. I...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

“I guess you could say that’s when the U.N. woke and said, ‘Hmm, we can accomplish something here.'”

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The above title is taken from the last line of a recent New York Times article , and are the words of an unidentified senior U.N. official. ...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

The Dangers of Reckless Reading

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I was sitting on the floor in a Barnes and Noble the other day, gazing down at one of the bottom shelves of the history section to see Hitle...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Suing the UN?

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Sorry for the hiatus. A recent article in the NYT mentioned that a group of victims of the Srebrenica massacre had attempted to sue the Net...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Thoughts on "Linguicide"

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The 1948 Genocide Convention doesn't specifically enumerate the intentional destruction of a group's culture as an act which consti...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Genocide by... Abortion?

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While perusing the internet during my finals week for news on genocide (as, alas, I am prone to do), I found a post which accuses President ...
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