What is the role of memory during political transitions?
Memory from the Margins
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atrocities
Mass Atrocities Research
Widespread and systematic violence against civilians–mass atrocities–is a priority for the WPF because of the devastating human, social, political and economic
Read moreMass Atrocities Research Program
The WPF program on mass atrocities, defined as widespread and systematic violence against civilians, primarily focuses on studying patterns of
Read moreHow Mass Atrocities End
My edited volume, How Mass Atrocities End: Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq (Cambridge 2016) was published
Read moreGovernment versus Rebels?…Soldiers versus Citizens
The second cartoon of Alex de Waal and Victor Ndula’s series on South Sudan’s war is “Government versus Rebels?…Soldiers versus Citizens.”
Read moreHistoric famines and episodes of mass intentional starvation
This is a dataset of historic famines and episodes of mass intentional starvation. It is a working dataset, to be
Read moreThe end of mass famine?
We are starting a project that will document the patterns of famines and episodes of mass starvation over history, including their causes, locations, and best estimates for the numbers of people who died. Remarkably, this does not appear to have been done before in a systematic manner. Our aim is to bring together evidence for major famines and instances of deliberate mass starvation (related to war and genocide).
Read moreThe rent seeking rebellion cycle
Episode seven in the eight part comic illustration of South Sudan’s predicament, with art by Victor Ndula and text by Alex de Waal. Sponsored by the Cartoon Movement, JSRP, and World Peace Foundation.
Read moreWho is the Subject of Atrocities Prevention?
The work of prevention cannot be adequately conceived as simply pushing a conceptual framework upstream, as it were. Even the basic vocabularies to describe on-going violence may be ill-suited for contexts where violence has not occurred. Worse yet, these vocabularies may obscure the very relationships and social structures that are best suited to protection. Some of the most compelling work on atrocities prevention today begins precisely at this impasse by challenging the assumptions of what factors are relevant to the work of prevention, adding new concepts to the analytical framework, and diversifying the cases that inform the work of atrocity prevention.
Read moreSetting the Agenda for Evidence-Based Research on Ending Mass Atrocities
The field of genocide and mass atrocities studies has produced significant contributions to knowledge of where, when and why campaigns of large-scale, one-sided violence occur, but offers relatively few explicit examinations of the political, social and military dynamics of the de-escalation of violence. This simple question remains unexplored: how do mass atrocities end?
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