Revisiting the heart of darkness : explorations into genocide and other forms of mass violence : 60 years after the UN Convention

This ... is published on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Genocide Convention, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9th December 1948"--P. [4] of cover. "The larger part of this volume is based on revised versions of papers originally presented to a conference on 'Mass Violence in Africa,' funded by Sida, this conference was jointly organised by the Dag Hammarskj?ld Foundation and the Nordic Africa Institute, and took place in Uppsala in early December 2006, with the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) as a collaborating partner." "The second part of this volume presents revised inputs and results from the 'Dialogue Conference on Genocide' at the Voksen?sen conference centre near Oslo in mid-November 2007. This was organised by Networkers SouthNorth in collaboration with Voksen?sen and the Dag Hammarskj?ld Foundation"--P. [iii].