IDEA: a journal of social issues

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IDEA: a journal of social issues

http://www.ideajournal.com/

IDEA is an electronic journal created for the exchange of ideas related
mainly, to cults, mass movements, autocratic power, war, genocide,
democide, holocaust, and murder. Government killing in this century, what
R.J. Rummel calls democide, has accounted for the deaths over over
150,000,000 people.  Genocide, and democide have occurred all over the
world throughout history.  But this century's escalations require a closer
attention.  Is it possible to discover why men murder? Is it possible to
discover why men commit mass murder? Some say it is not. The phrase "Never
Again", inscribed on a monument at the concentration camp Dachau in
Germany, seems more a hope than a possibility, especially because many
genocides have occurred since WWII. Some say it is not possible to
understand why men commit such acts.  If this is so, then there is no hope
of preventing them, because no lasting prevention is possible without
understanding. Also the study of these issues can lead to understanding
single murders and even milder forms of aggression.  The dispensing of
others exists on a continuum from telling a child to stand in the corner
to committing genocide and democide. This journal aspires to make whatever
small contribution to these issues is possible. 

IDEA is published by Krysia Hnatowicz Jacobs and edited by Alan Jacobs.

Contact:

editor@ideajournal.com

-or,

ajacobs@bravenewweb.com

IDEA: a journal of social issues is a journal that is listed in 
the Directory of Open Access Journals.