// Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard: ‘Could It Happen Here?: The Holocaust and Atrocities in the 21st Century’

From Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard’s website:

“I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Politics at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy, and a Parliamentary Academic Fellow advising the International Affairs Unit of the UK Parliament. My research is primarily in qualitative political science, and focuses on the role of ideology in collective political violence, especially forms of violence against civilians such as genocides, mass atrocities and terrorism.”
— jleadermaynard.com

In the incisive, thought-provoking article linked below, Johnathan Leader Maynard explores the political conditions that might enable another Holocaust to happen.
 
Quote: “While genocide on the scale of the Holocaust is historically exceptional, its central lesson is that the broader danger of extreme atrocities is not. In the words of the great historian Ian Kershaw, the Holocaust ‘lit a warning beacon that still burns brightly: it showed how a modern, advanced, cultured society can so rapidly sink into barbarity… It showed what we are capable of.’ Only by rejecting false narratives of conflict and polarization, and maintaining systems of rights and freedoms for all, can we hope to prevent that capability from once more becoming a reality.”
— JustSecurity.org
 
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