GQ9 Is Ignoring Hunger Comparable with Ignoring Genocide? Review of Eyal Mayroz’s Reluctant Interveners

  • George Kent University of Hawaii (Emeritus)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26596/wn.20191043-10
Keywords: genocide, atrocity, hunger, food security, child mortality

Abstract

Eyal Mayroz’s book, Reluctant Interveners, focuses on how public opinion shapes and is shaped by the US government’s response to genocide, a type of mass atrocity. Mass atrocity is defined here as widespread avoidable harm. Hunger can be viewed as another type of mass atrocity, even if the harm is not imposed intentionally. The book and this review show that responses to hunger and genocide have been similar.

 

Published
2019-12-30
Issue
Vol 10 No 4 (2019)
Section
Editorials
Copyright (c) 2019 George Kent

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