Resources

Useful Resources on Genocide

General Resources on Genocide 

  • The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies by Bloxham and Moses
  • Genocide: A World History by Norman N. Naimark
  • What is Genocide? by Martin Shaw
  • Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction by Adam Jones

Genocides by Region 

    • Armenia
      • The Burning Tigris by Peter Balakian
      • Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian
      • Forced into Genocide by Yervant Alexanian
    • Bosnia
      • The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return by Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro
      • Voices from Srebrenica: Survivor Narratives of the Bosnian Genocide by Ann Petrila and Hasan Hasanović
      • Untold Killing Podcast
    • Cambodia
      • The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge by Ben Kiernan
      • “First They Killed My Father” on Netflix
      • First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung 
    • Darfur 
      • Darfur Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide by Alexis Herr
      • Darfur: A 21st-Century Genocide by Gérard Prunier
    • Holocaust
      • Memoirs by Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel
      • War and Genocide by Doris L. Bergen
      • Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning
      • The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
    • Myanmar/Rohingya 
      •  First, They Erased Our Name: a Rohingya Speaks by Habiburahman and Sophie Ansel
      • The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide by Azeem Ibrahaim and Muhammad Yunus 
    • Rwanda
      • Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld
      • Left to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza 
    • Ukraine
      • Red Famine by Anne Applebaum
      • Holodomor: The Ukrainian Famine-Genocide by Philip Wolny
    • Xinjiang/East Turkestan 
      •  “The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority,” Part of: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics by Sean R. Roberts.
      • New York Times articles

                          Genocide by Topic

                            • Genocidal Denial 
                              • Genocide Denial Laws as Secular Heresy: A Critical Analysis with Reference to Bosnia by Robert M. Hayden
                              • Genocide Denials and the Law by Ludovic Hennebel and Thomas Hochmann
                              • Holocaust and Genocide Denial by Paul Behrens
                            • Genocide within International Criminal Law 
                              • International Criminal Law and Procedure by Robert Cryer et al.  
                              • Genocide in International Law by William Schabas
                            • Ethnic Cleansing 
                              • Ethnic Cleansing by Clotilde Pégorier
                              • Blood and Soil by Ben Kiernan
                              • Ethnic Cleansing by Andrew Bell-Fialkoff
                            • Propaganda, Language, and Dehumanization
                              • The Text of the Holocaust: A Study of the Nazis' Extermination Propaganda from 1919-1945 by C.C. Aronsfeld
                              • Propaganda, War Crimes Trials & International Law edited by Predrag Dojčinović
                              • Dangerous Speech and Dangerous Ideology by Susan Benesch et al.
                              • Thy Brother's Keeper? The Relationship between Social Distance and Intensity of Dehumanization during Genocide by Lisa Haagensen and Marnix Croes
                              • "Propaganda, Empathy, and Support for Intergroup Violence: The Moral Psychology of International Speech Crimes" by Lasana Harris et al.
                              •  Propaganda and International Criminal Law by Predrag Dojčinović