Roddy Brett is a Lecturer with the School of International Relations, where he directs the Masters Programme in Peace and Conflict Studies. He has published seven books on the themes of peace and conflict, political violence and social movements. He worked with the Centre for Human Rights Legal Action in Guatemala to prepare the evidence against in the legal case filed against three former presidents of Guatemala and their military high commands for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

• Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Understanding the Violence.- Chapter 2: Civilian Experience of Violence in Civil War and Armed Conflict.- Chapter 3: The EGP: Insurgent Strategies in the Ixcán and the Ixil.- Chapter 4: The Counterinsurgent Response.- Chapter 5: War in the Rebel Heartlands.- Chapter 6: Displacement and Exile.- Conclusions: And History Shall not be Unwritten

“The Origins and Dynamics of Genocide is an important and ambitious book … . it shines a light on such an opaque period but also because it seeks so ardently and candidly to explain what happened and to understand it. Scholars can take many things from this book … that this is likely to become a definitive work of reference that explores key questions about the changing nature of political violence and how this can culminate in genocide.” (Gavin O’Toole, The Latin American Review of Books, latamron.com, August, 2017)