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Investigating Genocide: An Analysis of the Dafur Atrocities Documentation Project will be comprised of over 1,000 annotations on a wide array of issues/ topics germane to the subject of the intervention and prevention of genocide. Among the topics under which annotations will be included are: key conventions, international treaties, and covenants; early warning signals and forecasting; key "risk data bases"; sanctions; peace-keeping forces armed intervention; humanitarian intervention; conflict resolution; genocide early-warning systems/monitoring; ad hoc tribunals; the International Criminal Court; realpolitik vis-á-vis the issue of genocide prevention and intervention; key non-governmental agencies working on the issue of intervention and prevention of genocide; and key governmental and U.N. bodies working on the issue of genocide intervention and prevention.
In addition to the annotations, the book will include a major essay that introduces the reader to the subject of intervention and prevention of genocide. It will raise a host of critical issues regarding the strengths, weakness, and limitations of various approaches germane to issues of intervention and prevention.
In a companion volume, The UN and the Intervention and Prevention of Genocide: A critical Bibliography, will provide a comprehensive annotation of the voluminous writings relating to the role of the UN in the prevention of genocide. This volume is especially pertinent has the UN has come under increasing fire in both the media as well as the scholarly literature for its inaction in the face of genocide.
Investigating Genocide: An Analysis of the Dafur Atrocities Documentation Project will be comprised of over 1,000 annotations on a wide array of issues/ topics germane to the subject of the intervention and prevention of genocide. Among the topics under which annotations will be included are: key conventions, international treaties, and covenants; early warning signals and forecasting; key "risk data bases"; sanctions; peace-keeping forces armed intervention; humanitarian intervention; conflict resolution; genocide early-warning systems/monitoring; ad hoc tribunals; the International Criminal Court; realpolitik vis-á-vis the issue of genocide prevention and intervention; key non-governmental agencies working on the issue of intervention and prevention of genocide; and key governmental and U.N. bodies working on the issue of genocide intervention and prevention.
In addition to the annotations, the book will include a major essay that introduces the reader to the subject of intervention and prevention of genocide. It will raise a host of critical issues regarding the strengths, weakness, and limitations of various approaches germane to issues of intervention and prevention.
In a companion volume, The UN and the Intervention and Prevention of Genocide: A critical Bibliography, will provide a comprehensive annotation of the voluminous writings relating to the role of the UN in the prevention of genocide. This volume is especially pertinent has the UN has come under increasing fire in both the media as well as the scholarly literature for its inaction in the face of genocide.
Part 1: The Background on Darfur 1. Disaster in Darfur: An Historical Overview Robert O. Collins 2. Moving Beyond a Sense of Alarm Over the Atrocities in Darfur Andrew Natsios Part 2: The Investigation 3. Creating the ADT and Making It Work: Turning a Good Idea into Reality Nina Bang-Jensen and Stefanie Frease 4. Survey Methodology and the Darfur Genocide Jonathan Howard 5. The Critical Link: Interpreters Helge Niska 6. Moving into the Field and Conducting the Interviews: Commentary and Observations by the Investigators Samuel Totten and Eric Markusen Part 3: The Genocide Determination 7. Making the Determination of Genocide in Darfur Steve Kostas 8. A New Chapter of Irony: The Legal Definition of Genocide and the Implications of Powell's Determination Jerry Fowler 9. Prosecuting Gender Crimes Committed in Darfur: Holding Leaders Accountable for Sexual Violence Kelly Dawn Askin Part 4: The Significance of the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project: A Precedent for the Future? -- The Perspective of 'Outsiders' 10. The Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project: A Precedent for the Future? A Perspective from Washington, D.C. Taylor Seybolt 11. From Rwanda to Darfur: Lessons Learned? Gerry Caplan 12. Proving Genocide in Darfur: The Atrocities Documentation Project and Resistance to Its Findings Gregory H. Stanton 13. Atrocity Statistics' and Other Lessons from Darfur Scott Straus Afterword
Samuel Totten is a Professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and co-founding editor of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal. He has also been a Fulbright Fellow at the Centre for Conflict Management, National University of Rwanda.
Eric Markusen (MSW, University of Washington; Ph.D., University of Minnesota) was Professor of Sociology and Social Work at Southwest Minnesota State University and a Senior Researcher with the Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies of the Danish Institute for International Studies.
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