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~ 8. 19 ~Fein, Helen. "Scenarios of Genocide. " In Toward theUnderstanding and Prevention of Genocide. Ed. byIsrael W. Charny. Imprint the same as 8. 14.By removing the actual names of the victimizerand victim peoples, and also the names of countriesand geographic locales of each genocidal case history,and then substituting unfamiliar made-up names for allof the above, Fein generates a series of templates orbasic scenarios for how genocide has come about andhow it can come about in a wide variety of historical,political, and ethnic circumstances. Hers is a brilliantpedagogical tool as well as a worthwhile collection forscholars and researchers of generic forms or scenariosof genocide.~ 8. 20 ~Fein, Helen. "Genocide: A Sociological Perspective. "Current Sociology 38, no. 1 (1990) Whole Number.In this 104-page monograph, Fein provides acomprehensive review of the field of genocide study,which she follows with a 225-item bibliography of themain literature of the field, accompanied by numerousbrief critical annotations. Fein is a passionate spokespersonfor a precise and rigorous definition of genocide.She is also the author of an award-winning studyof the differential outcomes of the Holocaust in differentcultures, Accounting for Genocide (New York: FreePress, 1979).~ 8. 21*Fromm, Erich. For the Love of Life. Ed. by HansDurgen Schultz. Trans. from the German by Robertand Rita Kimber. New York: Free Press, 1988. LC85-20518. ISBN 0-02-910930-2. Based on radiointerviews in the late 1970s."If you begin your resistance to a Hitler, only afterhe has won his victory, then you' ve lost before you' veeven begun. For to offer resistance you' ve got to havean inner core, a conviction. You have to have faith inyourself to be able to think critically, to be an independenthuman being, a human being and not a sheep. "(p. 133) "Anyone who takes this path will learn to resistnot only the great tyrannies, like Hitler's, but also the'small'tyrannies, the creeping tyrannies ofbureaucratizationand alienation in everyday life. " (p133)~ 8. 22 *Gibson, Janice T. , and Mika Haritos-Fatouros. "TheEducation of a Torturer. " Psychology Today 20, no.11 (1986): 50-58.Using the step-by-step method, the authors analyzethe sequence of desensitization through which peopleare trained to be members of a secret police (in thiscase in Greece) who are prepared to torture and cruellykill their victims. Their findings are consistent withearlier observations of how the Nazis trained theirfeared SS Deathhead squads.* 8. 23 *Glaser, K. , and S. T. Possony. Victims of Politics: TheState of Human Rights. New York: Columbia UniversityPress, 1979. LC 78-5591. ISBN 0-231-04442-9.The authors survey forced migrations or forcedtransfers of populations and provide details of thetremendous losses of life that inevitably accompanysuch steps.* 8. 24 ~Harff, Barbara. Genocide and Human Ri ghts. Denver,CO: Graduate School of International Studies, Universityof Denver, 1984. ISBN 0-87940-074-9 pa. NUC 86-70567.Harff, a political scientist, has written a poignant,caring monograph about natural law as well as theevolving technical legal basis for humanitarian interventionof one nation in another's affairs for the specificpurposes of stopping genocide. Such intervention canbe without exploitation for national gain.~825~Harff, Barbara, and Ted Robert Gurr. "Genocides andPoliticides since 1945: Evidence"and Anticipation.Internet on the Holocaust and Genocide Special Issue13 (December 1987).Political scientists Harff and Gurr are pioneeringin the development of computerized empirical informationson two critical aspects of genocide: Harff reportson a databank of politicides, or mass killings on thebasis of political identity since World War II; Gurrreports on a databank about minorities around the worldand monitors the extent to which they are at risk ofmounting persecution and genocide.* 8. 26 *Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 1986-. Q. PergamonPress Journals. Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3OBW, England. Editor-in-Chief: Yehudah Bauer.Chairman of the Editorial Board: Elie Wiesel. ISSN8756-6583.This is probably the flagship scholarly journal inthe field of Holocaust and genocide studies, althoughit is heavily biased towards scholarship primarily ofthe Holocaust and towards "purist definitions" of theHolocaust. It publishes much less about the genocidesof other people.Early Warning, Intervenrion, and Prevention of Genocide 161