ABSTRACT
Cushman viewed such optimism skeptically. He rejected the notion that all genocides can be prevented or suppressed, but he recognized that some can be, and he argued for strategies sensitive to historical context and key actors’ practical limitations. With such cautions in mind, this chapter tries to avoid easy answers and past solutions. But it recognizes, and indeed typifies, the concern of the vast majority of genocide scholars not just with understanding genocides of the past, but with confronting present genocides and preventing them in the future.
