Kurt Jonassohn

Frank Robert Chalk

Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies

Genocide is not an invention of the twentieth century in this absorbing book, but has occurred throughout history in all parts of the world. This study-the first comprehensive survey of the history and sociology of genocide -presents over two dozen examples of the one-sided mass slaughter of peoples, spanning the centuries from antiquity to the present.

Analyses and Case Studies

The History and Sociology of Genocide

Karin Solveig BjÃ¶rnson

Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations offers actual studies of genocide in India, China, Colonial Africa, the Soviet Union, Burma, and the former Yugoslavia. Beyond narrating the most horrendous atrocities, the book focuses on the nature of gross human rights violations and genocides, and how best to stop them. Jonassohn formulates a typology that distinguishes events that have different origins, occur in different situations, and follow different processes. This work is motivated by the hope that it might be possible to reduce the number of genocides and to intervene in those that do occur.

Kurt Jonassohn

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