TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Critical genocide studies and mass atrocity prevention
JO  - Genocide studies and prevention
A1  - Verdeja, Ernesto
SP  - 111
EP  - 127
VL  - 13
IS  - 3
N2  - Critical genocide studies has emerged as an important strand of scholarship devoted to interrogating the core assumptions of the field of genocide studies. Drawing on these developments, this article outlines a critical approach to modern atrocity prevention that is self-reflective, dialectical, multivalent, and anti-teleological. Part I provides a brief overview of contemporary prevention. Part II elaborates the four elements of the proposed critical approach toward prevention. Part III applies this approach to examine several important issue areas in current prevention work: the importance of global and regional contextualization; securitization and state power; conceptualizations of political violence; the status of expert knowledge; and, the place of civil society in prevention. The article is partly based on interviews with atrocity prevention practitioners.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1911-0359
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.13.3.1676
ID  - ref1
ER  -