Raphael Lemkin, culture, and the concept of genocide / A. Dirk Moses -- 'Ethnic cleansing' versus genocide? / Benjamin Lieberman -- Gender and genocide / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey -- The state and genocide / Anton Weiss-Wendt -- Genocide and memory / Dan Stone -- The law and genocide / William A. Schabas -- Sociology and genocide / Martin Shaw -- Political science and genocide / Scott Straus -- Anthropology and genocide / Kevin Lewis O'Neill -- Social psychology and genocide / Paul A. Roth -- Philosophy and genocide / Martin Shuster -- Genocide in the ancient world / Hans Van Wees -- Early Medieval Europe: the case of Britain and Ireland / James E. Fraser -- Central and Late Medieval Europe / Len Scales -- Colonial Latin America / Nicolas A. Robins -- Rethinking genocide in North America / Gregory D. Smithers -- Genocide and mass violence in the 'Heart of darkness': Africa in the colonial period / Dominik J. Schaller -- Genocide at the twilight of the Ottoman Empire / Hilmar Kaiser -- Mass deportations, ethnic cleansing, and genocidal politics in the later Russian Empire and the USSR / Nicolas Werth -- The Nazi empire / Christopher R. Browning -- Twentieth-century China: ethnic assimilation and intergroup violence / Uradyn E. Bulag -- Political genocides in postcolonial Asia / Robert Cribb -- State-sponsored violence and secessionist rebellions in Asia / Geoffrey Robinson -- National security doctrine in Latin America: the genocide question / Daniel Feierstein -- Genocide and population displacement in post-Communist Eastern Europe / Cathie Carmichael -- Genocidal warfare in North-East Africa / Alex de Waal -- War and genocide in Africa's Great Lakes since Independence / Omar McDoom -- The United Nations, The Cold War, and its legacy / Gerd Hankel -- Military intervention / Alex J. Bellamy -- Punishment as prevention? The politics of prosecuting génocidaires / Donald Bloxham, Devin O. Pendas -- From past to future: prospects for genocide and its avoidance in the twenty-first century / Mark Levene.