ABSTRACT
The author's work as a genocide scholar is an accidental outcome of his education as both a criminologist and sociologist intersecting with his personal biography. The social and structural conditions helped to determine variances in homicide rates across communities, states, and regions. The author also realized that there was an extensive criminological literature that explicated a variety of deviant behavior, and yet none of that insight had been applied toward helping make sense of the Holocaust or of genocide more generally. Most analyses of genocide have focused on the role of racism within Sudanese society and the extremism of the government. The geographic and climate related factors are not ignored because they played an important role in facilitating this genocide. This chapter concludes that conflict, war, and genocide are inevitable outcomes of climate change, that led to conflict and violence in other times and places.
