Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?

Nicola Quaedvlieg and Alette Smeulers

Topics: Social Sciences

No. 48 in ScienceNew

The attacks on 9/11, the invasion in Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State, the genocides in Srebrenica, Rwanda, Cambodia and Nazi Germany are all incredible acts of human cruelty. They make us wonder: who are the perpetrators of these crimes and what drives them? These questions will be discussed with professor Alette Smeulers and other well known scholars within the field.

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