Michael Humphrey is Associate Professor and Head of School at the School of Sociology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He has published widely on the themes of dispute resolution, ethnicity, Lebanese diaspora communities, Islamic movements, Middle East migration, globalisation, violence and national reconstruction. He is also the author of Islam, Multiculturalism & Transnationalism: From the Lebanese Diaspora.

• Chapter 1 Politics of atrocity; Chapter 2 Horror, abjection and terror; Chapter 3 The atrocity of torture; Chapter 4 War, horrors, beliefs; Chapter 5 Urbicide; Chapter 6 Ethnic cleansing; Chapter 7 Witnessing atrocity; Chapter 8 Trauma, truth and reconciliation; Chapter 9 Atrocity, trials and justice; Chapter 10 Conclusion;

' ... its great achievement is that it confronts the enormous difficulties of rendering moral arguments in this changed scenario of politics and warfare or rather politics as warfare.' - The Australian Journal of Anthropology