A Bibliography of Political Science Resources on the Study of Political Violence
This bibliography contains several sections:

I.  Terrorism and Counter Terrorism
II.  Civil War and State Failure
III.  Peacekeeping Operations and Nation Building
IV.  International Security in a Changing World
VII.  Genocide, Politicide, and Human Rights (below)
VI.  Regional Studies
VII.  Data Sets

V.  Genocide, Politicide, and Human Rights

Useful Texts

-George Andreopoulos (ed.), Genocide: The Conceptual and Historical Dimensions. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994).

-De Forges, Alison. 1999 Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda. New York: Human Rights Watch.

-Donnelly, Jack. 1989. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. Cornell University Press: Ithaca.

-Jack Donnelly. International Human Rights. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998).

-D. Forsythe (2000) Human Rights in International Relations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

-Roy Gutman and David Rieff (eds.), Crimes of War. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999).

-Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Cornell University Press: Ithaca.

-Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain. The Making and Unmaking of the World. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).

-Mary E. Williams, ed. Human Rights: Opposing Viewpoints. (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1998).