This is a short list of useful works to begin -- comparative studies, teaching guides, texts, evaluations and bibliographic reviews. See also lists of books on Selected Websites.

Teaching About Genocide: A Guidebook for College and University Teachers -- Critical Essays, Syllibi and Assignments
Joyce Freedman Apsel and Helen, eds.
New foreward. Washington. DC: American Sociological Association, 1998.

Ever Again? Evaluating the United Nations Genocide Convention on Its 50th Anniversary and Proposals to Acvitate the Convention
Orlanda Brugnola, Helen Fein and Louise Spirer, eds.
New York: Institute for the Study of Genocide, 1999.
See Publications Available from the ISG and IAGS for ordering information.

The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies
Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Encyclopedia of Genocide
ed. Israel W. Charny. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1999.

Genocide: A Sociological Perspective
Helen Fein.
[A review of theory and research].
London: Sage Publications, 1993.

Genocide Watch
Helen Fein, ed.
[Essays on how to detect and deter genocide in the contemporary world from a 1989 conference, Genocide Watch.]
New Haven: Yale University, 1991.

The Prevention of Genocide: Rwanda and Yugoslavia Reconsidered
Helen Fein, ed.
New York: Institute for the Study of Genocide, 1994.
See Publications Available from the ISG and IAGS for ordering information.

Early Warning of Communal Conflicts and Humanitarian Crises
Ted R. Gurr and Barbara Harff.
New York: United Nations University Press, 1995.

"Victims of the State: Genocides, Politicides and Group Repression from 1945 to 1995."
Barbara Harff and Ted Gurr.
In Albert J. Jongman, ed., Contemporary Genocides: Causes, Cases, Consequences
(Leiden: PIOOM/University of Leiden, 1996).

Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century
Leo Kuper.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust
Robert F. Melson.
Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

The Prevention of Genocide: Mission Impossible?
Neal Riemer, ed.
New York: Praeger Pub., 2000.

Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900
R. J. Rummel.
New Brunswick, NJ/London: Transaction Pub., 1994.

Genocide: Essays Toward Understanding, Early-Warning, and Prevention
Roger Smith, ed.
Williamsburg, VA: Association of Genocide Scholars/Department of Government, College of William and Mary, 1999.
See Publications Available from the ISG and IAGS for ordering information.

The Roots of Evil: The Psychological and Cultural Origins of Genocide and Other Forms of Group Violence
Ervin Staub.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989

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