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Mass Atrocities and Peacebuilding (General)
- Power, Samantha. A Problem from Hell”: America in the Age of Genocide
- Sands, Philippe. East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
- Strauss, Scott. Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention **Free PDF
- Gangi, Jane. Genocide in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Cambodia to Darfur
Armenia
- Balakian, Peter. The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response
- Bedoukian, Kerop. Some of Us Survived: the Story of an Armenian Boy
- Dadrian, Vahakn. The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflcit from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus
- Davis, Leslie A. The Slaughterhouse Province: An American Diplomat’s Report on the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917
- Hartunian, H. Abraham. Neither to Laugh nor to Weep: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide
- Kalajian, Hannah. Hannah’s Story: Escape from the Genocide in Turkey to Success in America
- Ketchian, Bertha A. In the Shadow of the Fortress: the Genocide Remembered
- Morgenthau, Henry. Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story
- Simpson, Christopher. The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century
- Slide, Anthony. Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian.
- Temon, Yves. The Armenians: History of a Genocide
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Bosnia
- Anzulovic, Branimir. Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide
- Bass, Gary J. Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals
- Gallagher, Tom. The Balkans after the Cold War: from tyranny to tragedy
- Koff, Clea. The Bone Woman
- Mestrovic, Stjepan. Genocide after Emotion: The Postemotional Balkan War
- Mills, Nicolaus and Kira Brunner. The New Killing Fields
- Naimark, Norman M. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century Europe
- Neuffer, Elizabeth. The Key to My Neighbor’s House
- David Rohde. End Game: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica: Europe’s Worst Massacre Since the Holocaust
- Ron, James. Frontiers and ghettos: state violence in Serbia and Israel
- Sadkovich, James J. The US Media and Yugoslavia, 1991-1995
- Scharf, Michael P. Slobadon Milosevic on trial: a companion
- Thomas, Raju C.G. Yugoslavia unraveled: sovereignty, self-determination, intervention
- Vulliamy, Ed. Middle Managers of Genocide
- Stone, Marla. Bosnia’s Untenable Peace
Burma
- Craig, Charmaine. Miss Burma
Cambodia
- Chandler, David. Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot
- Cruvellier, Thierry. The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
- Etcheson, Craig. After the Killing Fields: lessons from the Cambodian Genocide
- Fifield, Adam. A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother
- Him, Chanrithy. When The Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
- Jarvis, Helen and Tom Fawthrop. Getting Away with Genocide: Cambodia’s Long Struggle Against the Khmer Rouge
- Kiernan, Ben. Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: the Khmer Rouge, the United Nations, and the International Community
- Kiernan, Ben. The Pol Pot Regime
- Maguire, Peter. Facing Death in Cambodia
- Oeur, U. Sam. Sacred Vows
- Pran, Dith. Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors
- Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Darfur
- Apsel, Joyce. Darfur: Genocide Before Our Eyes
- Cheadle, Don and John Prendergast. Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
- de Waal, Alex and Julie Flint. Darfur: A Short History of a Long War
- Marlowe, Jen and Aisha Bain, Adam Shapiro, Paul Rusesabagina. Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival
- Prunier, Gérard. Darfur: the Ambiguous Genocide
- Reeves, Eric and Michael Brassard. A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide
- Steidle, Brian and Gretchen Steidle Wallace. The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
- Totten, Samuel and Eric Markusen. Genocide in Darfur: Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan
- Young, Helen. Darfur: Livelihoods Under Siege
East Turkistan (Xinjiang, China)
- La Valley, Josanne. Factory Girl
Holocaust
- Berenbau, Michael. The World Must Know
- Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- Kovaly, Heda. Under a Cruel Star
- Levi, Primo. If This is a Man
- Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz
- Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars
- Matas, Carol. Daniel’s Story
- Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History and Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: and Here My Troubles Began
- Trunk, Isaiah. Lodz Ghetto: a History
- Wiesel, Elie. Night
- Yolen, Jane. The Devil’s Arithmetic
Rwanda
- Barnett, Michael. Eyewitness to a Genocide
- Chretien, Jean-Pierre. The Great lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History
- Dallaire, Romeo. Shake Hands with the Devil
- des Forges, Allison Liebhafsky. Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
- Gourevitch, Phillip. We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Shall be Killed with Our Families
- Keane, Fergal. Seasons of Blood: A Rwandan Journey
- Hatzfeld, Jean. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
- Melvern, Linda. A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide and Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwanda Genocide and the International Community
- Neuffer, Elizabeth. The Key to My Neighbor’s House
- Rusesabagina, Paul. An Ordinary Man
- Wamariya, Clemantine. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
United States and Indigenous Peoples
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States