Research

Our research is published across the fields of Genocide Studies, Holocaust Studies, Human Rights, International Law, Peace and Conflict Studies, Religious Studies, Security Studies, and Terrorism Studies, and in disciplinary journals in Anthropology, History, Law, Political Science, and Sociology.

Books by Faculty, Fellows, and Students

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Special Issues of Journals

%21GSP.jpg — Laura Collins, T. Lyons and W. Adeboye, eds., “Special Issue: Rethinking Genocide, Mass Atrocities, and Political Violence in Africa,” Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 13, No. 2 (2019).

%21GSP.jpg — James P. Finkel, ed. “Special Issue: Global Approaches to Atrocity Prevention: Theory, Practice, and the State of the Field,” Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 11, No. 3 (2017)

%21GSP.jpg — Borislava Manojlovic, T. Ogata, and A. Bartoli, eds., “Special Issue: Towards the Prevention of Genocide,” Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 9, No. 3 (2016).

Screen+Shot+2019-09-01+at+12.22.55+AM.jpg — Tetsushi Ogata, ed. GPANet 2015: Lessons Learned and Good Practices for Detecting and Understanding Early & Acting Properly to Prevent Genocide & Mass Atrocities

%21GSP.jpg — Yasemin Irvin-Erickson and D. Irvin-Erickson, eds. “Humanitarian Technologies and Genocide Prevention,” Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 8, No. 3 (2013).

Screen+Shot+2019-09-01+at+12.16.52+AM.jpg — Tetsushi Ogata, ed. GPANet 2012: Guiding Principles of the Emerging Architecture Aiming at the Prevention of Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity.

Screen Shot 2019-09-01 at 12.05.03 AM.png — Tetsushi Ogata, ed. GPANet 2010: Prevention and Mitigation of Genocide and Mass Atrocities Focus on East and Central Africa and the Islamic World.

Screen Shot 2019-08-31 at 11.33.01 PM.png — Mô Bleeker and Andrea Bartoli, eds. “Special Issue: Genocide Prevention,” Politorbis No. 47 (2009).

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Selected List of Faculty, Fellows, and Student Research Outputs
(through 2020)

consult authors’ websites and CVs for a full list of publications

2020

Jacob, Edwin Daniel. American Security and the Global War on Terror (Routledge, 2020).
Irvin-Erickson, "Raphaël Lemkin: Genocide, Cultural Violence, and Community Destruction," in Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities, Fiona Greenland and Fatma Müge Göçek, eds. (Routledge, 2020).
Novak, Andrew. Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Springer, 2020).
Novak, Andrew. “The Apartheid Divestment Movement at George Washington University: The Legacy of Student Activism and GW Voices for a Free South Africa,” Safundi (2020): DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2020.1796471
Novak, Andrew and Daniel Pascoe. “Deadly Justice Without Mercy in East Asia?” International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (2020).
Sample, Emily and Douglas Irvin-Erickson. eds. Building Peace in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).

2019

Al Achkar, Ziad. “Review of Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen Through the Beautiful Game,” Journal of Political Science Education, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2019): 273-275.
Collins, Laura and Terrence Lyons, eds., “Special Issue: Rethinking Genocide, Mass Atrocities, and Political Violence in Africa,” Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 13, No. 2 (2019).
Finkel, James P. “Atrocity Prevention from Obama to Trump,” in Preventing Mass Atrocities: Policies and Practices, Barbara Harff and Ted Robert Gurr, eds. (Routledge, 2019): 113-134.
Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. "Understanding Culture and Conflict in Preventing Genocide," in International and Transnational Crime and Justice, Mangai Natarajan, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. "From Geneva to Nuremberg to New York: Andrei Vyshinsky, Raphaël Lemkin, and the Struggle to Outlaw Revolutionary Violence, State Terror, and Genocide," in Stalin's Soviet Justice: Show Trials, War Crimes, and Nuremberg, David Crowe, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. "Raphaël Lemkin," in Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations, Jeffrey S. Bachman, ed. (Routledge, 2019).
Kuradusenge-McLeod, Claudine A. "Book Review: Making Ubumwe: Power, State and Camps in Rwanda’s Unity-Building Projects," Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 13, No. 2 (2019): 148-149.
Nimuraba, Sixte Vigny and Douglas Irvin-Erickson, "Narratives of Ethnic and Political Conflict in Burundian Sites of Persuasion," in Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory and Human Rights, Joyce Apsel and Amy Sodaro, eds (Routledge, 2019).
Novak, Andrew. Transnational Human Rights Litigation: Challenging the Death Penalty and Criminalization of Homosexuality in the Commonwealth (Springer, 2019).
Polunina, Valentyna. “The Human Face of Soviet Justice? Aron Trainin and the Origins of the Soviet Doctrine of International Criminal Law”, in Stalin’s Soviet Justice, David Crowe, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Taylor, Christian. “Al-Qaida is Stronger Today than it was on 9/11.” The Conversation (July 1, 2019).
Taylor, Christian. “In Somalia, can al-Shabab be defeated? Here’s why a nonmilitary option might succeed.” The Washington Post (November 5, 2019).
Taylor, Christian, Tanner Semmelrock and Alexandra McDermott. “The Cost of Defection: The Consequences of Quitting Al-Shabaab.” International Journal of Conflict and Violence Vol. 13 (2019).
Tombe, Sandra. "Book Review: Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa: The Logic of the Coup-Civil War Trap," Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 13, No. 2 (2019): 150-151.

2018

Al-Achkar, Ziad. “Melting Arctic: Implications for the Twenty-First Century,” Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations Fall/Winter (2018): 47-62.
Finkel, James P. "Global Approaches to Atrocity Prevention: Introduction to the Special Issue," Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 11, No. 3 (2018): 3-5.
Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. "Foreword." In Anton Weiss-Wendt, A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War (Rutgers University Press, 2018).
Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. "Prosecuting Sexual Violence at the Cambodian War Crimes Tribunal: Challenges, Limitations, and Implications," Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 40, No. 3 (2018): 570-590.
Jacob, Edwin Daniel. “Selling Security,” Peace Review Vol. 30, No. 2 (2018): 192-198.
Nimuraba, Sixte Vigny. “Do it with Them: Community Service as a Tool for Nonviolence Education in Burundi,” in Vidya Jain and Matt Meyer, eds,. Connecting Contemporary African-Asian Peacemaking and Nonviolence: Satyagraha / Ujamaa (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018).
Nimuraba, Sixte Vigny and Matt Meyer. “Crossing False Boundaries: Civil Society and Peace-building in Post-Genocide Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” in Vidya Jain and Matt Meyer, eds., Connecting Contemporary African-Asian Peacemaking and Nonviolence: Satyagraha / Ujamaa (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018).
Novak, Andrew. “The ‘Judicial Dialogue’ in Transnational Human Rights Litigation: Muruatetu v. Republic and the Abolition of the Mandatory Death Penalty in Kenya,” Human Rights Law Review Vol. 18, (2018).
Novak, Andrew. “Capital Punishment in Precolonial Africa: The Authenticity Challenge,” Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law Vol. 50 (2018).
Novak, Andrew. “Using International and Foreign Law in Human Rights Litigation: The Decriminalization of Consensual Same-Sex Relations in Belize,” Journal of Human Rights Practice Vol. 10 (2018).
Novak, Andrew. “Toward a Global Consensus on Life Imprisonment without Parole: Transnational Legal Advocates and the Zimbabwe Constitutional Court’s Decision in Makoni v. Commissioner of Prisons,” Journal of African Law Vol. 62 (2018).
Polunina, Valentyna. “The Soviets at Tokyo: International Justice at the Dawn of the Cold War”, in Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for Justice, 1946-48, Kerstin von Lingen, ed. (Brill, 2018): 124-147.
Wise, Louise E. “Naming Genocide: The Least That Can Be Done,” 21st Century Global Dynamics Vol. 11, No. 11 (2018).

2017

Finkel, James P., ed. “Special Issue: Global Approaches to Atrocity Prevention: Theory, Practice, and the State of the Field,” Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 11, No. 3 (2017).
Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. Raphaël Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. “Genocide Discourses: American and Russian Strategic Narratives of Conflict in Iraq and Ukraine,” Politics and Governance Vol. 5, No. 3 (2017): 130-145.
Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. “Sixty Years of Failing to Prosecute Sexual Crimes: From Raphaël Lemkin at Nuremberg to Lubanga at the International Criminal Court,” in A Gendered Lens for Genocide Prevention, Mary Michele Connellan and Christiane Fröhlich, eds. (Palgrave, 2017).
Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. “Protection from Whom? Tensions, Contradictions, and Potential in the Responsibility to Protect,” in Rethinking Security in the Twenty-First Century, Edwin Daniel Jacob, ed. (Palgrave, 2017).
Jacob, Edwin Daniel. Rethinking Security in the Twenty First Century: A Reader (Palgrave, 2017).
Martin-Shields, Charles. "Information Communication Technologies in Atrocity Response and Prevention: Deepening Our Understanding of the Legal, Ethical and Practical Challenges,"Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 11, No. 1 (2017): 100-103.
Novak, Andrew. “The Role of Legal Advocates in Transnational Judicial Dialogue: The Abolition of the Mandatory Death Penalty and the Evolution of International Law,” Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law Vol. 25 (2017).
Wise, Louise E. “Social Death and the Loss of a ‘World’: An Anatomy of Genocidal Harm in Sudan,” The International Journal of Human Rights Vol. 21, No. 7 (2017): 838-865.

2016

Al Achkar, Ziad, (co-authored with Jos Berens, Nathaniel Raymond, Stefaan Verhulst). Building Data Responsibility into Humanitarian Action. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, May 2016.
Al Achkar, Ziad (co-authored with Nathaniel A. Raymond). Data Preparedness: Connecting Data, Decision-making and Humanitarian Response. Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University. November 2016.
Fuertes, Al B. "Karen Refugees Describe Peace within the Context of Displacement." Conflict Resolution Quarterly Vol. 33, No. 3 (2016): 297-312.
Irvin-Erickson, Douglas and Peter Phan, eds. Violence, Religion, Peacemaking: Contributions of Interreligious Dialogue (Palgrave, 2016).
Kuradusenge, Claudine. "Denied Victimhood and Contested Narratives: The Case of Hutu Diaspora," Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 10, No. 2 (2016): 59-75.
Manojlovic, Borislava, Tetsushi Ogata, and Andrea Bartoli, eds. “Special Issue: Towards the Prevention of Genocide,” Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 9, No. 3 (2016).
Moix, Bridget. "Turning Atrocity Prevention Inside-Out: Community-Based Approaches to Preventing, Protecting, and Recovering from Mass Violence," Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 9, No. 3 (2016): 59-69.
Novak, Andrew. “Comparative Perspectives on Pardon Reform: Global Lessons for Federal Clemency in the United States,” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Vol. 49 (2016).
Novak, Andrew. “The Abolition of the Mandatory Death Penalty in Bangladesh: A Comment on Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust v. Bangladesh,” Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal Vol. 15 (2016).
Novak, Andrew. The African Challenge to Global Death Penalty Abolition: International Human Rights Norms in Local Perspective (Intersentia, 2016).
Rothbart, Daniel and Cooley, Jessica. "Hutus Aiding Tutsis during the Rwandan Genocide: Motives, Meanings and Morals," Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 10, No. 2 (2016): 76-97.

2015

Al Achkar, Ziad (co-authored with Brittany Card, Nathaniel A. Raymond) “What is Humanitarian Communication?” European Interagency Security Forum, October 2015.
Collins, Laura C. "Book Review: The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine," Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 9, No. 1 (2015): 114-115.
Finkel, James P. “Moving Beyond The Crossroads: Strengthening the Atrocity Prevention Board,” Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 9, No. 2 (2015): 138-147.
Fuertes, Al. B. “Peacebuilders in Mindanao Describe Consciousness and Transformation Towards Effective Practice,” Kinaadman Journal Vol. 36 (2015): 1-16.
Korostelina, Karina. "Crimean Tatars From Mass Deportation to Hardships in Occupied Crimea," Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 9, No. 1 (2015): 33-47.
Novak, Andrew. Comparative Executive Clemency: The Constitutional Pardon Power and the Prerogative of Mercy in Global Perspective (Routledge, 2015).
Novak, Andrew. The International Criminal Court: An Introduction (Springer, 2015).

2014

Al Achkar Ziad (co-authored with Brittany Card, Benjamin Davies). “Digital Data: Improving Situational Awareness during Complex Humanitarian Crises.” Naval War College MOC Warfighter Journal, May 2014.
Finkel, James P. Atrocity Prevention At The Crossroads: Assessing The President’s Atrocity Prevention Board After Two Years (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for the Prevention of Genocide, 2014).
Nimuraba, Sixte Vigny. Establishing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Burundi: Perspectives on Possibilities and Challenges (Lap Lambert, 2014).
Novak, Andrew. The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty: Constitutional Jurisprudence and Legislative Reform in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean (Ashgate Law, 2014).
Novak, Andrew. The Death Penalty in Africa: Foundations and Future Prospects (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

2013

Al Ackar, Ziad (co-authored with Nathaniel A. Raymond, Benjamin I. Davies, Brittany L. Card, Ziad Al Achkar, and Isaac L. Baker). "While We Watched: Assessing the Impact of the Satellite Sentinel Project." Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Vol. 14, No. 2 (2013): 185-91.
Al Achkar, Ziad (co-authored with Nathaniel A. Raymond, Benjamin I. Davies, Brittany L. Card, Ziad Al Achkar, and Isaac L. Baker). Sudan: Anatomy of a Conflict. Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, May 2013.
Irvin-Erickson, Yasemin and Douglas Irvin-Erickson, eds. “Humanitarian Technologies and Genocide Prevention,” Genocide Studies and Prevention Vol. 8, No. 3 (2013).
Ndura, Elavie and Sixte Vigny Nimuraba. “Educating for Democracy and Social Justice to Further Burundi’s 2025 Vision.” Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 93 (2013): 714-718.