ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines how anti-genocide activists produce, present and sanction evidence to advocate a particular truth claim. It also examines what constitutes the sacred in human life, according to the activists. The book explores the fear and anxiety that informed the relatively 'novel' preoccupation with mass violence in the humanitarian and human rights community. It argues that this preoccupation might be informed by an altered view of human nature and the human propensity for violence and social change. The book also argues that the violence involved in mass atrocities arouses similar feelings of losing any means to repair and redeem the violations because the bodies are lost, hacked into pieces, decomposed and, moreover, the perpetrators are amongst us. It explains a difference in the making of the subject by East Timor activists and R2P-advocates.
