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Guatemala

The persistence of genocidal logic beyond mass killing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2016

Bridget Conley-Zilkic
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Tufts University, Massachusetts
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How Mass Atrocities End
Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq
, pp. 29 - 55
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Print publication year: 2016

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  • Edited by Bridget Conley-Zilkic, Tufts University, Massachusetts
  • Book: How Mass Atrocities End
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  • Edited by Bridget Conley-Zilkic, Tufts University, Massachusetts
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316407578.002
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