Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-628) and index.
Contents
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.
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.
