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Why do people participate in genocide? Timothy Williams presents an interdisciplinary model that shows how complex and diverse, but also how ordinary and mundane most motivations for participating in genocide are. The book draws on empirical examples from the Holocaust and Rwanda, and introduces new data from interviews with perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia.
List of contents
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
About the author
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS is a junior professor of insecurity and social order at the Bundeswehr University Munich in Munich, Germany. His work has won awards from the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the German Peace Psychologist Association, and Marburg University. He is the coeditor, with Susanne Buckley-Zistel, of
Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics.
