ABSTRACT
The slogan “Never Again,” said human rights scholar Thomas Cushman, “embodies in crystalline form the preventative discourse” that pervades comparative genocide studies:
through empirical and scientific observation of operationally defined cases of genocide, one can isolate the variables and causal mechanisms at work and predict future genocides. Armed with such predictions, one can take specific practical steps to intervene and stop genocides from occurring. The key to success is the development of political mechanisms or structures, which will heed the scientific understanding and possess the political will, which means basically the ability and the physical force necessary to intervene to stop genocide.1
