ABSTRACT
As a genocide scholar, the author's aim was to get at the logic of genocidal destruction from the perspective of those who conceived of and then oversaw the implementation of such policies. As a political scientist, he essentially saw mass violence in the contemporary era as public policy made by different actors and institutions within the modern state apparatus. At a general level, the motivation behind his scholarship had changed over time to find the cause of genocide. The key to successful genocide prevention was to find satisfaction in academic research for its own sake, the education of the students and the wider community. As genocide scholars, they found that human beings of certain groups cleared the land to make way for colonization. Likewise, some concepts such as "race," "nation," the "revolution," and/or ideas were based on purely constructed identities of targeted groups that labelled them as "enemies" and "threats.".
