Researching Perpetrators of Genocide
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Researching Perpetrators of Genocide

  1. 247 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Researching Perpetrators of Genocide

About this book

Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have been identified as perpetrators of genocide. This can include overcoming biases that often accompany research on perpetrators; conceptualizing, identifying, and recruiting research subjects; risk mitigation and negotiating access in difficult contexts; self-care in conducting interviews relating to extreme violence; and minimizing harm for interviewees who may themselves be traumatized.

This collection of case studies by scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds turns a critical and reflective eye toward qualitative fieldwork on the topic. Framed by an introduction that sets out key issues in perpetrator research and a conclusion that proposes and outlines a code of best practice, the volume provides an essential starting point for future research while advancing genocide studies, transitional justice, and related fields. This original, important, and welcome contribution will be of value to historians, political scientists, criminologists, anthropologists, lawyers, and legal scholars.

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Yes, you can access Researching Perpetrators of Genocide by Kjell Anderson, Erin Jessee, Kjell Anderson,Erin Jessee in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Genocide & War Crimes. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. List of Abbreviations
  4. Introduction | Kjell Anderson and Erin Jessee
  5. The Perpetrator Imaginary: Representing Perpetrators of Genocide | Kjell Anderson
  6. Victims Everywhere, Perpetrators Nowhere: Locating and Talking to Perpetrators in Cambodia | Timothy Williams
  7. Seeing Monsters, Hearing Victims: The Politics of Perpetration in Postgenocide Rwanda | Erin Jessee
  8. Perpetrators among Ourselves | Ivana Macek
  9. Getting Close with Perpetrators in Argentina | Eva van Roekel
  10. Assad’s Paramilitaries: Shabbiha Perpetrators in the Syrian Civil War | Ugur Ümit Üngör
  11. From Murders to Victims: Dilemmas of Doing Perpetrator Research in an Illiberal State | Andrea Peto
  12. From a Perpetrators to a Respondents Approach: A New Way to Consider the Words of the Accused before International Criminal Courts | Marie-Sophie Devresse and Damien Scalia
  13. Conclusion: Toward a Code of Practice for Qualitative Research among Perpetrators | Erin Jessee and Kjell Anderson
  14. Contributors
  15. Index