Dr. David Hamburg's groundbreaking book, "Preventing Genocide:
Practical Steps toward Early Detection and Effective Action,"
approaches the problem of mass violence from three perspectives.The
first part of the book examines the root causes of genocide, using
illustrative case histories from the 19th century to the present to
identify recurrent elements and patterns in genocides as they
develop. A basic theme is that clear warnings always appear long
before a genocide erupts, and that there are practical ways to
prevent its outbreak before mass violence occurs. The second part
of the book describes pillars of operational and structural
prevention: elements in society that have strong long-term
potential for preventing mass violence of all kinds. These pillars,
if adequately constructed and sustained, greatly reduce the risk of
genocide, war, and other atrocities. The third part considers what
various organizations and institutions have done and can do to
build and maintain the pillars. It concludes that international
repositories of knowledge and skill in prevention are essential, to
identify warning signals and to prepare and propose appropriate
responses before a genocide begins. For this purpose it recommends
the establishment of international centers of genocide and outlines
their tasks.It is a unique book, highly interdisciplinary and
international in scope, continuously linking research with active
policy making. Work on the book has already stimulated significant
movement in the United Nations and the European Union-the author of
the book was appointed in 2006 to chair two distinguished
international committees on genocide prevention-one reporting to
Kofi Annan at the UN, theother to Javier Solana at the EU.
Reactions to the book from those who have reviewed its draft
chapters have been highly positive. They have come from both policy
makers and scholars including Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Javier
Solana, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, and Jan Eliasson as well as
Professors Larry Diamond, John Stremlau, Herant Katchadourian,
Sidney Drell, and, up to his death last year, Alexander George, who
was originally involved as co-author of the book.
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