The complexity of evil : perpetration and genocide
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The complexity of evil : perpetration and genocide
（Genocide, political violence, human rights series）
Rutgers University Press, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-258) and index
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Description
Why do people participate in genocide? The Complexity of Evil responds to this fundamental question by drawing on political science, sociology, criminology, anthropology, social psychology, and history to develop a model which can explain perpetration across various different cases. Focusing in particular on the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, The Complexity of Evil model draws on, systematically sorts, and causally orders a wealth of scholarly literature and supplements it with original field research data from interviews with former members of the Khmer Rouge. The model is systematic and abstract, as well as empirically grounded, providing a tool for understanding the micro-foundations of various cases of genocide. Ultimately this model highlights that the motivations for perpetrating genocide are both complex in their diversity and banal in their ordinariness and mundanity.
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Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Vignette 1 Chandara: a fearful volunteer enters the tiger zone
1 The complexity of evil - introducing the model
Vignette 2 Sokong: a coerced killer with a conscience
2 Motivations
Vignette 3 Sokphary: a female unit leader with a sense of responsibility for her subordinates
3 Facilitative factors
Vignette 4 Sopheak: an interrogator searching to unearth enemy strings
4 Contextual conditions
Vignette 5 Sokha: a child guard the regime turned on
5 Diversity, complexity, scope - discussing the model and its empirical application
Vignette 6 Ramy: a garment worker participating in the evacuation of Phnom Penh
Conclusion
Appendix: List of interviewees
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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