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Worse than war : genocide, eliminationism, and the ongoing assault on humanity  Cover Image Book Book

Worse than war : genocide, eliminationism, and the ongoing assault on humanity

Summary: A paradigm-changing investigation into the phenomenon of genocide and mass killing--explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them and why they happen so frequently; and how the international community should and can successfully stop them.

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  • ISBN: 9781586487690 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1586487698 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xii, 658 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-628) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The choice -- Clarifying the issues. Eliminationism, not genocide ; Worse than war : our age of suffering -- Explaining eliminationist assaults. Why they begin ; How they are implemented ; Why the perpetrators act ; Why they end -- Modern eliminationist politics. Sources and patterns ; Thinking and acting ; Actual minds, actual words -- Changing the future. Prologue to the future ; What we can do.
Subject: Genocide -- Psychological aspects
Genocide -- Prevention
Racism -- Psychological aspects
Prejudices -- Psychological aspects
Hate -- Case studies
Group identity -- Case studies

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Summary: A paradigm-changing investigation into the phenomenon of genocide and mass killing--explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them and why they happen so frequently; and how the international community should and can successfully stop them.

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