Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Role of Rhetoric and Communication in Genocide; 2 State Killings as Public Argument; 3 Discursive Complexity as a Communication-Based Moral and Ethical Framework; 4 The Cell Phone versus the AK-47; 5 The Genocidaire; 6 Christianity as a Critical Methodology for Moral Action; 7 Islam and the Rhetorical Construct of Islamophobia; 8 Global Anti-Semitism; 9 James Farmer; 10 Gendercide; 11 Giving War a Chance; 12 Winning Wars against Genocide; 13 Conclusion; Appendix: Student Essay: Shia Islam; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary
Through the careful analysis of historical figures and empirical policy successes, The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how strategic communication silences make the tragedy of genocide probable and how a greater social ethic for communication openness repels and ends this great evil
