ABSTRACT
Any broad historical examination of the phenomenon of genocide cannot fruitfully proceed without engagement with issues of collective human psychopathology.
Mark Levene
Understanding genocide requires probing the minds of those who commit it, and those who seek to prevent or limit it. This is the province of psychology. Not surprisingly, many prominent scholars and analysts of genocide are psychologists and psychiatrists, including Israel Charny, Ervin Staub, Roy Baumeister, Robert Jay Lifton, and James Waller.
