Psychology of genocide

The psychology of genocide attempts to explain genocide by means of psychology. Psychology of genocide aims to explain the preconditions of genocide and why some people become genocide perpetrators while others are bystanders or rescuers.

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List of genocides Genocides in history Effects on youth Denial Massacre Rape Incitement In relation to Colonialism / War Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders Prevention Psychology Recognition politics Risk factors Stages Studies Types Anti-indigenous Cultural Utilitarian
18th /19th/early 20th century genocides
Dzungar genocide (1750s) Circassian genocide (1800s–1870s) Black War (1825–1831) Moriori genocide (1835–c. 1860) California genocide (1846–1873) Hazara genocide (1888–1893) Selk'nam genocide (1890s–1900) Herero and Namaqua genocide (1904–1907)
Late Ottoman genocides
Greek genocide (1913–1923) Sayfo (1915–1924) Armenian genocide (1915–1923)
World War II (1939–1945)
The Holocaust Romani genocide Genocide of Serbs by the Ustashe Genocide of Croats and Muslims by the Chetniks Nazi crimes against the Polish nation
Cold War
Bangladesh genocide (1971) Ikiza (1972) East Timor genocide (1974–1999) Cambodian genocide (1975–1979) Guatemalan genocide (1981–1983) Gukurahundi (1983–1987) Anfal campaign (1986–1989) Isaaq genocide (1987–1989)
Contemporary ethno-religious genocides
Bosnian genocide (1992–1995) Rwandan genocide (1994) Massacres of Hutus (1996–1997) Effacer le tableau (2002–2003) Darfur genocide (2003–) Yazidi genocide (2014–2017) Iraqi Turkmen genocide (2014–2017) Uyghur genocide (2014–) Rohingya genocide (2016–)
Related topics
Anti-communist mass killings Indonesia 1965–66 Atrocities in the Congo Free State Compulsory sterilization Democide Ethnic cleansing Ethnocide Forced assimilation Mass killings under communist regimes Holodomor / genocide question Outline of genocide studies Bibliography Vendée genocide debate Predictions of a genocide in Ethiopia Raphael Lemkin
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