[DEBATE] : Genocide and Mass Violence

[Henning Melber]

Publication Announcement:

Revisiting the heart of darkness - Explorations 
into genocide and other forms of mass violence. 
60 years after the UN Convention. Edited by 
Henning Melber. Uppsala: The Dag Hammarskjöld 
Foundation (development dialogue, no. 50, 
December 2008), 302 pp.

This Development Dialogue is published on the 
occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Genocide 
Convention, adopted by the United Nations General 
Assembly on 9th December 1948. On the basis of 
the normative framework created and more recently 
also applied in a few cases, the contributions 
seek to explore further the socio-historical and 
-political contexts of genocide and mass violence 
and test the common approaches against analyses 
of social realities as well as theories. The 
historical dimension is of significance to many 
of the chapters, which have a main focus on 
African cases and contexts.
The contributions, which are based on two 
conferences held in Uppsala in December 2006 and 
Oslo in November 2007, present scholarly as well 
as politically and morally guided forms of 
engagement. This blend seeks to acknowledge the 
need to unite differently posed concerns and 
appeals in their common efforts to examine 
further the notion of genocide (as well as its 
limitations), with the aim of reducing the risks 
of history repeating itself.

The volume is accessible for download at the 
Foundation's web site: www.dhf.uu.se.

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Henning Melber (Executive Director)
The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Övre Slottsgatan 2, S-753 10 Uppsala/Sweden
Tel. +46-18-4101001; Fax +46-18-12 20 72
Henning.Melber at dhf.uu.se, http://www.dhf.uu.se

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