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The continued failure to prevent or halt genocide

The latest issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention is out, including Kelly Maddox (Lancaster): “Liberat[ing] Mankind from such an Odious Scourge”: The Genocide Convention and the Continued Failure to Prevent or Halt Genocide in the Twenty-First Century. Sherry F. Colb (Cornell): Decoding “Never Again”. Aliza Luft (Wisconsin): Toward a Dynamic Theory of Action at the Micro Level of Genocide: Killing, Desistance, and Saving in 1994 Rwanda. Lynne Tirrell (UMass): “Listen to What You Say”: Rwanda’s Postgenocide Language Policies. Jonathan Leader Maynard (Oxford): Preventing Mass Atrocities: Ideological Strategies and Interventions. Etienne Ruvebana (NUR) and Marcel M.T.A. Brus (Groningen): Before It’s Too Late: Preventing Genocide by Holding the Territorial State Responsible for Not Taking Preventive Action. Henry K. Kopel on the case for sanctioning state sponsors of genocide incitement. Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre, there are important lessons to be learned for scholars about how to study such horrifying subjects.