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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