Joanna Bourke

Emergency funding: an important step toward change

• 19 March 2008

Joanna Bourke describes her relief that Harriet Harman, Minister for Women has announced £1 million funding for Rape Crisis centres. She says that Harman's step is important but it must simply be the beginning.

Life & Society

Rape myths past and present

• 10 March 2008
• 2 comments

Popular prejudices estimate about half rape victims are lying, but research shows just 3% of rape allegations are false - yet another myth about sexual violence

Books

When killing had to stop

• 07 February 2008
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For centuries Europe was a prickly landscape of heavily armed nation states. Now the continent has largely lost its enthusiasm for conflict. How did that happen?

Books

An orgy of inhumanity

• 19 June 2006

The War of the World: history's age of hatred
Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 746pp, £25
ISBN 0713997087
Why was the 20th century marked by so many massacres, wars and genocides? And will the next 100 years be any different? Joanna Bourke explores our capacity for hatred

Politics

Silence in the face of slaughter. The US and Britain have been attacked both for ignoring genocide and for intervening to stop it. After the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the massacres in the Balkans and the wars in Rwanda, are we any closer to the right answers?

• 21 July 2003

A Problem from Hell: America and the age of genocide
Samantha Power Flamingo, 656pp, £9.99
ISBN 007172990

Violence: terrorism, genocide, war
Wolfgang Sofsky Granta, 273pp, £17.99

Books

Willing executioners

• 21 January 2002

The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution
Mark Roseman Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 152pp, £9.99
ISBN 071399570X