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| Journal of Genocide Research | |
|---|---|
| Title | Journal of Genocide Research |
| Abbreviation | J. Genocide Res. |
| Discipline | Genocide studies |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| History | 1999–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Issn | 1462-3528 |
Journal of Genocide Research The Journal of Genocide Research is a peer-reviewed academic periodical devoted to the study of mass violence, genocide, ethnocide, and related crimes against humanity. It engages with scholarship on events such as the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust, Rwandan genocide, Bosnian Genocide, and other cases worldwide, and situates them within debates involving actors like United Nations, International Criminal Court, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and institutions such as Yad Vashem and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Founded in 1999, the journal emerged amid renewed scholarly attention following commissions and trials linked to the Ad Hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunal. Early volumes engaged with inquiries stimulated by the Nuremberg Trials legacy, controversies around the Armenian Genocide recognition, and comparative work influenced by studies of the Cambodian genocide and the Holodomor. Contributors and interlocutors have included scholars affiliated with Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Toronto, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Australian National University, and the London School of Economics. Over time the journal reflected methodological shifts linked to debates around transitional justice cases such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa), trials at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and scholarship shaped by archival access in locations including Poland, Russia, Turkey, Argentina, and Germany.
The journal publishes historical, legal, political, sociological, anthropological, and comparative studies of violent regimes and mass atrocities involving topics like denialism, memory politics, state policy, and international law. It has addressed episodes such as the Herero and Namaqua genocide, Greek Civil War aftermath, Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, Guatemalan Civil War, Darfur conflict, and debates over recognition involving states like Turkey, Israel, United States, Russia, and China. The aims include fostering interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars connected to centers like the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Genocide Studies Program (Yale), and practitioners from International Committee of the Red Cross and national tribunals.
The editorial board has featured academics and practitioners from institutions such as University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, University of Chicago, McGill University, University of Melbourne, Leiden University, and Australian National University. Editors have overseen double-blind peer review with reviewers drawn from specialist centers including Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting, Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and university departments tied to scholars working on cases like the Srebrenica massacre, Korean War atrocities, Partition of India, and Anfal campaign. The journal’s governance has intersected with publisher policies at Taylor & Francis/Routledge and with ethical guidelines influenced by organizations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Published quarterly by Routledge, the journal issues research articles, review essays, forum pieces, and special thematic issues. Libraries and consortia at institutions such as British Library, Library of Congress, Bibliothèque nationale de France, National Library of Israel, and major university libraries subscribe via platforms used by publishers including Taylor & Francis Online. Access arrangements have included institutional subscriptions, individual subscriptions, and occasional open-access initiatives responding to debates involving funders like the Wellcome Trust and national research councils in United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Australia.
The journal is indexed and abstracted in major bibliographic services and citation databases used by researchers working on topics connected to the Holocaust Research Institute, regional studies programs, and international law scholarship. Listings appear in databases comparable to those maintained by Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and subject indexes used by centers at Yad Vashem and university departments concentrating on the Genocide Studies Program (University of Toronto).
Scholarly reception has emphasized the journal’s role in shaping comparative genocide studies and informing policy debates before bodies such as the United Nations Human Rights Council and tribunals including the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. It has been cited in monographs and edited volumes published by presses like Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, and University of California Press, and has influenced curricula at institutions such as University of Chicago, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, SOAS University of London, and University of Amsterdam. Debates published in its pages have intersected with controversies around denialism, memory laws in countries like Poland and Germany, and recognition politics in legislatures such as the United States Congress and Parliament of Canada.
The journal has produced influential special issues and articles on topics such as comparison of the Holocaust and Cambodian genocide, legal analysis related to the Genocide Convention (1948), archival revelations from the Soviet archives, and examinations of memory practices in locales like Sarajevo, Yerevan, Kigali, Beirut, and Buenos Aires. Thematic issues have focused on perpetrators and bystanders in studies referencing the Einsatzgruppen, the SS, and political movements implicated in mass violence, as well as on gendered dimensions explored in scholarship about cases including the Rwandan genocide and the Bosnian War.
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