Rhetoric of Genocide

Ben Voth is associate professor of communication and director of speech and debate at Southern Methodist University.

• Introduction1. The Role of Rhetoric and Communication in Genocide2. State Killings as Public Argument3. Discursive Complexity as a Communication Based Moral and Ethical Framework4. The Cell Phone versus the AK-475. The Genocidaire: The Perpetrator6. Christianity as a Critical Methodology for Moral Action7. Islam and the Rhetorical Construct of Islamophobia8. Global Anti-Semitism: The Persistent Genocidal Trope9. James Farmer: A Model for Human Freedom10. Gendercide: Sex Selection Abortion 11. Giving War a Chance: Critical Theory and Genocide12. Winning Wars against Genocide13. Conclusion: A World without GenocideAppendix: Student Essay: Shia Islam

It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the horrors of genocide, both past and current. Dr. Voth makes it wonderfully clear that we need not have these tragedies in our midst, and that there is great power in individual initiative to eradicate genocide from this world.