Violence as a Generative Force Named as Finalist for 2017 Raphael Lemkin Book Award

Dr. Max Bergholz’s recent book, Violence as a Generative Force, was named as a finalist for the 2017 Raphael Lemkin Book Award. Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Genocide, the Lemkin Award honours Raphael Lemkin, the originator of the concept of genocide and first exponent of a United Nations Genocide Convention. It is awarded biennially to the best non-fiction book published in English or translated into English that focuses on explanations of genocide, crimes against humanity, state mass killings and gross violations of human rights, and strategies to prevent such crimes and violations.

The winner of the 2017 Lemkin Book Award is Benjamin Madley for his book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe (Yale, 2016) and the full list of finalists is as follows:

Max Bergholz, Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism and Memory in a Balkan Community (Cornell, 2016)

Alexander Laban Hinton, Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Duke, 2016)

Scott Straus, Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa (Cornell, 2015)

Ronald Grigor Suny, They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton, 2015)

Andrew Woolford, This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States (Nebraska, 2015)

For further informaition, please see: http://studyofgenocide.org/lemkin/