In this text, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists and historians examine over a dozen international cases to understand what causes a society's ethnic conflicts to either escalate or de-escalate. They highlight the role of group ...

Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the US Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda ...