Journal of Genocide Research

We published “From New York to Moscow and Kyiv: The Wartime Social Life of the Death Toll for Babyn Yar,” by Karel C. Berkhoff, on October 10, 2025.
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We published the open access paper “Genocidal Surveillant Assemblage in Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis,” by Mais Qandeel and Özgün Erdener Topak, as part of the forum “Gaza: International Humanitarian Law and Genocide,” on October 8, 2025.
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"Kwibuka and its Silencing of Trauma: How Reconciliation Initiatives Became Narratives of Violence" by Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod tinyurl.com/3e426bre
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"The Ovaherero and Nama People’s Struggle for Restorative Justice: An Activist-Scholar Lens" by Kaya Alice de Wolff and Jephta U. Nguherimo tinyurl.com/mwr4ksru

We added three articles on October 5, 2025: "Gazan Digital Storytellers: Popular Micronarratives Confronting Genocide" by Saleh Masharqa from our forum on Israel-Palestine. tinyurl.com/yc7td3zm

We published the open access article 'Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War' by Siniša Malešević and Lea David in our forum on Israel-Palestine on May 11.
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The journal published the open-access research article ‘“Can a Christian also be a 100 per cent National Socialist?”: The Holocaust, the Wehrmacht and Religious Faith’ by Olov Simonsson in April 2025. tinyurl.com/3e6kxktn

The journal published: "Lineages of Genocide in Sudan" by Alex de Waal in April 2025. You can access it from our official website. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On Sept. 25, the journal published open access paper "Clerical Sovereignty and its Absolute Others: Religious Genocide in Iran" by Shahin Nasiri. tinyurl.com/2pk33ems

Israel’s Displacement/Immobility Nexus in Palestine This post is authored by Dr. Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies at UCL and the author of 'A Short History of the Gaza Strip'.

Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece.
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If it’s Not About Gaza, Then it’s About Nothing Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Sara Roy has written a deeply poignant and painful piece in @journalgenocide.bsky.social and I hope you will read it: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Starvation in Contexts of Mass Violence and Genocide. Please see the attached notice for full details.

The Genocide that Changed the World Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

I've published 'The Genocide that Changed the World', my fullest overview of Israel's genocide and its implications, as part of a new roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies from @journalgenocide.bsky.social

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The @journalgenocide.bsky.social has a new Roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies. My introduction is freely available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have published discussions from our roundtable: ’Gaza and Genocide Studies.’ The reports were written prior to the United Nation’s Independent International Commission found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. The majority of publications open access: tinyurl.com/3ce3cazz

We have published open access reflection paper: “Which Lessons are to be Learned from the Holocaust? A Personal Account of the History of the IHRA 2000–2025 from the Viewpoint of a Memory Scholar” by Aleida Assmann. tinyurl.com/y739ybdd

In our Forum on Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, we have published “The Practice of Siege Warfare: Reckoning with War, Genocide and Settler Colonialism in Palestine” by @unamcgahern.bsky.social.
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In our forum: 'Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh: Famine, Memory, Security, and the Question of Genocide' we published research paper 'Gazafication and Genocide by Attrition in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh and the Occupied Palestinian Territories' by Elyse Semerdjian in July 2024. tinyurl.com/53x9mrtp

#OpenAccess: In our forum on "Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes & the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" we published "Prosthetic Trauma at the Nova Exhibition: Holocaust Memory, Reenactment, & the Affective Reproduction of Genocidal Nightmares" by @bratskoff.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3uymcbjj

The open access research paper "Holocaust Memory and the Universal Sovereignty of the Liberal Democratic State" by UK-based Edge Hill University Prof. James Renton was published by JGR's in June. tinyurl.com/y4nyjvbe

On Aug. 28, we published open access research article "Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia" by @lanabi.bsky.social, @denisakost.bsky.social and Timothy William Waters. Read the full article: tinyurl.com/h27fecv2

🚨⚖️🔍 New paper in Journal of Genocide Research with @denisakost.bsky.social & Timothy Waters we studied secrecy in Serbia’s war crimes trials.
📑Corpus of 164 judgements (1999–2019). Tried OCR+quant methods, but chaotic redactions made it impossible. So we wrote a descriptive, mixed-methods paper

Stay tuned: The journal will publish few more works under the same book forum later this year.

In 2025 we ran a book forum: "Fazil Moradi, Being Human: Political Modernity & Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq". On June 18, we published: "Reflections on Fazil Moradi’s Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq" by Stephen McLoughlin. You access it here: tinyurl.com/56fj8wpy

On July 4, JGR published "Genocide in Syria, Gaza, and Beyond: An interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh" by @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social . You can access from our official website. tinyurl.com/5pad2a82

On July 9, JGR published open access research article 'Civilizing the Village. Race, Progress and Genocide in Wartime Slovakia' by Hana Kubátová from @charlesuni.cuni.cz. Read the full article here: tinyurl.com/mt8aph3r

On July 28, JGR published the open access research article, "Toward a New Integrated History of Roma and Jews in Nazi-Controlled Europe" by Ari Joskowicz from @vanderbilt.edu. You can read the full report here: tinyurl.com/439c7ae5

We published research paper, "Do Social Factors Differ between Rescuers, Bystanders, & Former Perpetrators? Explaining (Non-) Participation in a Genocide" by Lola Seyll, Anitha Sendakize, Vincent Sezibera, François Masabo & Emilie A. Caspar on July 31.
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#OpenAccess: In our forum on 'Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes & the Crisis Of Holocaust & Genocide Studies' we published "Settler Colonialism and the Displacement/Immobility Nexus: Israeli Policy in Gaza Since 1948" by Dr Anne Irfan, at
@ucl.ac.uk on Aug. 24. bit.ly/3HGJF2c

The JGR published research article "Jews and Roma in the Carpathian Region and Southern Slovakia" co-authored by Dr. Raz Segal at Stockton University; Dr. László Csősz at the Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest; and Dr. Pavlo Khudish at Uzhhorod National University on Aug. 7. bit.ly/3VhMtpy