ABSTRACT
The chapter serves as an introduction to the edited collection. It draws our attention to the failure to prevent mass violence and ponders over the principal, probable explanations for the same. It also underscores the significance of and the need for the expansion of genocide and Holocaust studies in academia across the world and at the same time discusses the critical challenges of defining and comprehending the theme. The chapter briefly highlights the varied aspects of mass violence deliberated upon in the volume, such as contending terminologies, revisionism, reconstruction, atrocities, trauma, Holocaust education, memorialization, literature, dialogue, and reconciliation, and informs the readers about the methodologies employed by the authors.
