Document Type
Working Paper
Date of This Version
9-1-2015
Keywords
genocide, mass killing, genocide prevention, behavioral experiments, loss aversion, psychic numbing
Abstract
This article surveys risk factors for genocide and genocide prevention from the perspectives of four social science disciplines: sociology, social psychology, political science, and economics. Each discipline brings a valuable set of concepts and tools to bear in genocide research. Moreover, fruitful multi- and inter-disciplinary collaboration across the four disciplines (and other fields) is shedding new insights into why genocide has have been such a recurring tragedy in human affairs and how such atrocities can be prevented.
Working Paper Number
1508
Recommended Citation
Anderton, Charles, "Genocide: Perspectives from the Social Sciences" (2015). Economics Department Working Papers. Paper 152.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/econ_working_papers/152