Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity is a three volume reference work about genocide and other atrocitie

Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity is a three volume reference work about genocide and other atrocities throughout world history. Edited by Dinah Shelton, it was published in 2005 by Macmillan Reference.

Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Editor	Dinah Shelton
Publisher	Macmillan Reference
Publication date	2005

Published in 2005 by Macmillan Reference and aimed at those with a high school or college level education, the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity was comprises three illustrated volumes spanning approximately 1500 pages and with 354 entries, each between 500 and 5000 words long. The main body of the work is organized by alphabetically by topic. It covers various genocides and atrocities throughout human history, biographies of influential figures, and also advertising, art, comics, dance, fiction, film, music, the photography of victims, poetry, and satire and humor as they relate to genocide, especially when used as propaganda. Most topics dealt with are from the 19th and 20th centuries. In the final volume is a filmography and selection of significant legal documents related to international law, including the Ad hoc international criminal tribunals, the Apartheid Convention, selections from the Geneva Conventions, the Genocide Convention, the Rome Statute, the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and United States v. The Amistad.

Reception

Reviewers compared the Encyclopedia favorably to Israel Charny's Encyclopedia of Genocide, and the Reference and User Services Quarterly described it as "far more comprehensive" than Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts, edited by . Steven K. Baum described it as "the most comprehensive and simple-to-use encyclopedia" on the topic, though felt that it was focused on the legal aspects of genocide, lacking in discussion on hate crimes and hate studies, and should have cited more experts in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies. He found the inclusion of topics such as the banality of evil, Infanticide, and Irving v Penguin Books Ltd "unexpected" Adam Jones described it as an ""indespensible reference work" that "miss[ed] nothing of note", though was critical of the lack of coverage of Colombia, and editor's choice to include biographies on figures such as Alija Izetbegović, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and Nelson Mandela while omitting standalone biographies of people like Idi Amin, Lothar von Trotha, Kim Il Sung, and Suha. He also felt that that book lacked analysis on the relationship between various as aspects of economics, such as capitalism, communism, sanctions, and blockades, and genocide.

The choice of contributors earnt the book praise from several reviewers; Baum described it as reading a "Who's who of genocide scholarship". The book's editing in particular was praised by Zev Garber, though Garber felt that it had not drawn a clear enough distinction between "active form[s] of prejudice" and "natural bias".

Jones and Baum found some typographical and minor factual errors, though Baum noted that such errors were to be expected given the book's size and breadth of coverage.

Authors

The editor in chief was Dinah Shelton, and the associate editors were Howard Adelman, , [fr], and William A. Schabas. The volumes were written by over three hundred contributors:

Heribert Adam
Howard Adelman
Reza Afshari
Xabier Agirre Aranburu
Payam Akhavan
Diane Marie Amann
Peter Amato
Kai Ambos
Joyce A. Apsel
Cynthia J. Arnson
Edwin Bacon
Peter Balakian
Patrick Ball
Rebecca L. Barbisch
Dan Bar-On
M. Cherif Bassiouni
Craig Baxter
Chris Bennett
Michael Berenbaum
Karel C. Berkhoff
Robert B. Bernheim
Louis Bickford
Leora Bilsky
[de]
Laura E. Bishop
Matthias Bjørnlund
Karin Solveig Bjornson
Allida M. Black
Carolyn Patty Blum
Marc Bossuyt
A. B. Bosworth
Wayne H. Bowen
Paul S. Boyer
James Brennan
Arthur D. Brenner
Jason Bricker
Roy L. Brooks
Bruce Broomhall
George C. Browder
Stephen Brown
Randall L. Bytwerk
Horace Campbell
Arturo Carrillo
Joshua Castellino
Kathleen Cavanaugh
John Cerone
Roger S. Clark
Sarah Cline
Robert O. Collins
Daniele Conversi
Noble David Cook
James Crawford
François Crépeau
Robert Cribb
John R. Crook
Robert Cryer
Vahakn N. Dadrian
Erica-Irene A. Daes
Yael Danieli
Jamie S. Davidson
Alfred de Zayas
Emmanuel Decaux
Dennis Deletant
Anna M. Dempsey
Mercedes Doretti
Mark A. Drumbl
James Dunn
Daniel Elwood Dunn
Atom Egoyan
Asbjørn Eide
Asghar Ali Engineer
Geraldine D. Enjelvin
Craig Etcheson
Lynne Fallwell
Anat Feinberg
Stephen C. Feinstein
Hector Feliciano
Benjamin B. Ferencz
Alexander J. Field
Maribel Fierro
Robert Fine
Paul Finkelman
Michael R. Fischbach
Conan Fischer
[es]
David P. Forsythe
Michael Freeman
Michael P. Fronda
Kelly Helen Fry
James T. Fussell
[es]
William Gay
Christian Gerlach
[Wikidata]
Geoff Gilbert
James M. Glass
Leslie C. Griffin
Alexandra Guerson de Oliveira
T. Jeremy Gunn
Vineeta Gupta
William D. Haglund
J. Michael Hagopian
Bernard F. Hamilton
Ian Hancock
Hurst Hannum
John W. Harbeson
Sidney L. Harring
Aaron Hass
Amir Hassanpour
Robert M. Hayden
Dawn Marie Hayes
Priscilla B. Hayner
Pierre Hazan
Steve Heder
Géza Herczegh
[Wikidata]
Alex Hinton
Adam Hochschild
Stan Hoig
Jan Willem Honig
Wolfgang K. Hunig
Martin Imbleau
Naomi Jackson
Joshua Jacobson
Vinodh Jaichand
Mora Johnson
Maxine D. Jones
Christopher C. Joyner
Karen Jungblut
Bruce Kapferer
A. B. Kasozi
Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Ben Kiernan
Linda Kimball
Christine E. King
David King
Alexandre Kiss
Edward Kissi
Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt
John Klier
Ian Knight
[nl]
Arieh J. Kochavi
Peter Kornbluh
Joel Kotek
Peter Kovacs
Tania Kramer
Hans Christian Kruger
George Lane
Caroline Lantero
Bejamin Lawrance
Azzedine Layachi
Lawrence J. LeBlanc
Amy W. Leith
Rene Lemarchand
Paul Lemmens
Xiaorong Li
Timothy Longman
Janet E. Lord
Mark D. Ludwig
Reneo Lukic
Lorenz M. Luthi
Michelle Lyon
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Elaine Mackinnon
Paul Robert Magocsi
Michael R. Mahoney
Patrick Manning
Jean-Bernard Marie
Stephen P. Marks
Eric Markusen
Michael R. Marrus
Stacie E. Martin
Jonathan McCollum
Kevin McDermott
Avril McDonald
Russell McGregor
Fiona McKay
John McManus
Matthew McManus
Geoffrey P. Megargee
Robert Melson
Linda Melvern
Juan E. Mendez
Raymond A. Mentzer
Guenael Mettraux
Wolfgang Mey
John Michalczyk
Manus I. Midlarsky
David Miller
Virginia P. Miller
Mark C. Molesky
Kristen Renwick Monroe
Brian K. Morgan
Daryl Mundis
Ray Murphy
Sean D. Murphy
Daniel L. Nadel
Norman M. Naimark
Delphine Nakache
Linda A. Newson
Francis R. Nicosia
Daniel Nsereko
Sharon O'Brien
Carol Off
Kolawole Olaniyan
Clementine Olivier
Simon Olleson
Shane P. O'Rourke
Jeffrey Ostler
[Wikidata]
Aloka Parasher Sen
Gunnar S. Paulsson
Meg Penrose
Richard Pilkington
Douglas V. Porpora
Jack Nusan Porter
Greg Poulgrain
Jerry K. Prince
R. John Pritchard
Lyndel V. Prott
John Quigley
Renee C. Redman
Luc Reydams
Paul Richards
Andrew Rigby
Geoffrey Roberts
Richard Roberts
Chris A. Robinson
Nigel S. Rodley
Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Peter Ronayne
Mark Roseman
John K. Roth
Daniel Rothenberg
Paulina Rudnicka
Leila Sadat
Jaspreet K. Saini
Jose M. Sanchez
Pietro Sardaro
William F. Sater
William A. Schabas
Michael P. Scharf
David J. Scheffer
Christian P. Scherrer
Donald G. Schilling
Jennifer Schirmer
Markus Schmidt
[de]
John F. Sears
Paul Seils
Patricia Viseur Sellers
Jacques Sémelin
Harriet F. Senie
Franziska Seraphim
Roman Serbyn
Dinah L. Shelton
Marlene Shelton
Franziska E. Shlosser
Alex Shoumatoff
Josef Silverstein
Christopher Simpson
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Roger W. Smith
Itai Nartzizenfield Sneh
Alessia Sonaglioni
Stefan Sottiaux
Gregory H. Stanton
Beth Stephens
David Stoll
Christopher Swift
Nechama Tec
[fr]
Robert A. F. Thurman
Jiří Toman
Samuel Totten
Yvonne S. Unnold
Stef Vandeginste
Johan D. van der Vyver
Robert Jan van Pelt
Teun Voeten
Nevena Vuckovic Sahovic
Natalie Wagner
Eric D. Weitz
Mark Weitzman
Bret Werb
Dana Wessell
Stephen J. Whitfield
Marieke Wierda
Siegfried Wiessner
Robert Wokler
Riidiger Wolfrum
Linda M. Woolf
Kathleen Z. Young
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References

Baum, Steven K. (2005). "Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity". Journal of Hate Studies (4): 151–152.
Moffitt, Sally (2005). "Review of Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 44 (4): 339. ISSN 1094-9054. JSTOR 20864414.
Garber, Zev (2006). "Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (review)". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 24 (3): 176–178. doi:10.1353/sho.2006.0056. ISSN 1534-5165.
Jones, Adam (2006). "A Seminal Reference Work on Genocide". Security Dialogue. 37 (1): 143–144. doi:10.1177/0967010606064141. ISSN 0967-0106. JSTOR 26299477.
"Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity". Miskolc Journal of International Law. 2 (2): 60–61. 2005.
Shelton, Dinah, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Vol. 1. Macmillan Reference. pp. xxv–xxxii.

[:1-1] Baum, Steven K. (2005). "Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity". Journal of Hate Studies (4): 151–152.

[:5-2] Moffitt, Sally (2005). "Review of Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 44 (4): 339. ISSN 1094-9054. JSTOR 20864414.

[:2-3] Garber, Zev (2006). "Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (review)". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 24 (3): 176–178. doi:10.1353/sho.2006.0056. ISSN 1534-5165.

[:4-4] Jones, Adam (2006). "A Seminal Reference Work on Genocide". Security Dialogue. 37 (1): 143–144. doi:10.1177/0967010606064141. ISSN 0967-0106. JSTOR 26299477.

[:0-5] "Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity". Miskolc Journal of International Law. 2 (2): 60–61. 2005.

[6] Shelton, Dinah, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Vol. 1. Macmillan Reference. pp. xxv–xxxii.

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