Includes bibliographical references and index.

The political determinants of ethnic genocide / Frank M. Afflitto and Margaret Vandiver -- Always the first to go : people with disabilities and genocide / Arthur Blaser -- In through the gates and out through the chimneys : Gypsies and the Holocaust / Deborah Bruce -- In the eyes of the beholder : the Brasilian Black Consciousness movement's perceptions of genocide against Afro-Brasilians / David Covin -- The structure of obligations in international humanitarian law and its implications for conceptions of citizenship / L. Edward Day, Margaret Vandiver and W. Richard Janikowski -- Genocide in Matabeleland and Midlands in Zimbabwe : a failed transition to democracy and ethnic coexistence / Smile Dube -- The victims of Nazi persecution : will the Holocaust-era litigation answer the questions of history / Barry A. Fisher -- In genocide, responsibility stems from volition / Albert Globus -- Class, nation and race in communist crimes against humanity : theoretical and historical reflections on Marxist racism and violence / Steve Heder -- Why did the international community fail Rwanda and continues to do it? / Augustin Kamongi -- Ethnic relations in Central Europe : how to foster and to avoid genocide, and ethnic cleansing / Thomas Kando -- Armenian genocide and the survival of children / Isabel Kaprielian-Churchil -- The Armenian genocide and the unpaid life insurance policies : legal and historical perspectives / Hrayr S. Karagueuzian -- The Rwandan genocide : a test case for evangelization / Elisée Rutagambwa -- Doctors, society and the Holocaust : searching for the roots of evil / Erich H. Loewy -- The Armenian property and the destruction of Armenian historical monuments as a manifestation of the genocidal process / Dickram Kouymjian -- The Austrian encounter / Samson Munn -- The Japanese press and the Rwandan genocide / Michimi Muranushi -- Holocaust population redeployment and Soviet forced labor camps / Tamas Stark -- The post-genocide state of Rwanda / Yumiko Takashima -- A philosophy of negociation : retracing the coordinates of subjectivity / Adrian Parr -- The Armenian genocide though art and literature / Rubina Peroomian -- Why Johnny doesn't learn about genocide : how the American schooling system has betrayed the history and legacy of genocide / Nicole Vartivanian -- Indifference + inaction = genocide / Lionel VonFrederick Rawlins -- Trivialization of genocide : the case of Rwanda / Alexandre Kimenyi.