ABSTRACT
Genocide studies, which did not exist 40 years ago, now constitute a thriving academic discipline with hundreds of scholars, several journals, an outpouring of books, two international organizations, and endless conferences, but, at one and the same time, it is a simple but profound fact that it lags terribly behind in the development of theories and projects for real-life intervention and prevention of genocide. The world desperately needs an international peace army that is authorized to intervene, much as local police do when responding to a murder, without political discussion or authorization. New solutions are needed for how the international system can impose a minimum democratic requirement of a non-killing regime while allowing overall for local self-determination of most policy issues. The time has passed when genocide studies is solely devoted to fact-gathering and interpretation of genocides. It must be more than that.
