Overview

It is a promising time for genocide prevention. Increasing amounts of research, and resources, have led to significant advances over the past two decades. Yet we still lack vital knowledge as to the most effective ways to stabilise and reduce the risk of genocide in current at-risk societies. This volume offers a compelling new approach: to understand how to prevent genocide, we need to examine societies in which genocide has been prevented. It is in these societies – in which a demonstrably high risk of genocide was present, but in which genocide did not occur – that we can potentially find key factors that promote resilience to genocide. The volume explores six such case studies, spanning three continents and seven decades. Through careful analysis it identifies eleven factors that have contributed to preventing genocide in multiple cases, and which have the potential to inform current approaches to prevention. Collectively, these offer a new, evidence-based approach to preventing genocide.

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Reviews

'Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach highlights a key gap in prevention scholarship and policy. In a move that is at once hopeful and practical, Mayersen draws upon lessons from the past to turn the conversation away from a sole focus on risk to offer examples of how societies can build resilience to genocide.' Kerry Whigham, Binghamton University, and author of Resonant Violence: Affect, Memory and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies 'A groundbreaking and essential contribution, Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach offers clear, actionable insights grounded in rigorous research. Mayersen's innovative risk and resilience framework redefines prevention strategies, equipping practitioners and policymakers to more effectively safeguard vulnerable populations across the globe.' Tibi Galis, Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities Executive Director

Author Information

Deborah Mayersen is a Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at the University of New South Wales Canberra, at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Her research focuses on how genocides occur, the antecedents to genocide, and genocide prevention. She is the author of On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined (2014), three edited collections, and more than thirty journal articles and book chapters. She is the co-editor of Cambridge Elements in Genocide Studies. She regularly consults for NGOs in the field of atrocity prevention, and has provided expert advice to multiple governments on atrocity prevention and response.

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