ABSTRACT
How is one to begin to think about futures in genocide? One way to use the sociological imagination is to construct scenarios based on ideal-types and typical processes abstracted from the past, assuming not that the future repeats the past mechanically but that social facts, structures, systems of belief and conflicts which have led to deadly endings before still have the potential of doing so again if neither reversed nor deterred. To focus upon typological patterns rather than particular events in the past, scenarios will be dram as scripts to be enacted by fictive states.
