Last Lectures on the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide is a collection of hypothetical ‘last lectures’ by some of the top scholars and practitioners across the globe in the fields of human rights and genocide studies. Each lecture purportedly constitutes the last thing the author will ever say about the prevention and intervention of genocide.

The contributions to this volume are thought-provoking, engaging, and at times controversial, reflecting the scholars’ most advanced thinking about issues of human rights and genocide.

This book will be of great interest to professors, researchers, and students of political science, international relations, psychology, sociology, history, human rights, and genocide studies.

Samuel Totten is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arkansas, USA. In July and August 2004, he was one of 24 investigators on the US State Department’s Atrocities Documentation Project, and in 2008 he served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Conflict at the National University of Rwanda.