Adam Jones, PhD, was born in Singapore in 1963 and grew up in England and Canada. He is currently Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan in Kelowna, BC. He has published various sole-authored and edited books on genocide and related themes, including Sites of Genocide (2022) and The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections (2013), as well as works on mass media and political transition. Jones has lived and/or traveled in over 100 countries on every populated continent. His "Global Photo Archive" of more than 26,000 Creative Commons images has been used online by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the BBC, The Guardian, and The Atlantic, among many others (see [...]). He has served as an expert consultant for the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect.

Part One: Overview 1 The Origins of Genocide 2 State and Empire; War and Revolution Part Two: Case Studies 3 Genocides of Indigenous Peoples 4 The Ottoman Destruction of Christian Minorities 5 Stalin and Mao 6 The Jewish Holocaust 7 Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge 8 Bosnia and Kosovo 9 Genocide in Africa's Great Lakes Region Part three: Social Science Perspectives 10 Psychological Perspectives 11 The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide 12 Political Science and International Relations 13 Gendering Genocide Part four: The Future of Genocide 14 Memory, Forgetting, and Denial 15 Justice, Truth, and Redress 16 Strategies of Intervention and Prevention.