Massacre: An Analytical Approach towards Legal, Social, and Psychological Aspects
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The fields of sociology, law, and psychology have paid little consideration to the subject of mass killings of civilians. Without a doubt, this fact is influenced by the topic matter. Researchers who study mass killings face three distinct challenges. Studying something that makes you feel fear and loathing is quite normal. In this process of studying mass killings reasons, civilians are murdered and injured. It is possible that populations are at the heart of their reasoning. A conflict's psychological and political dynamics may be profoundly altered by mass killings, which are not just marginal or collateral incidents. As a result, it is appropriate to treat it as a distinct topic. Mass murder may be studied in three different ways by the social sciences. The organization’s strategic functions are examined first. Our CERI colloquium focused on methods, and I've discussed them here to demonstrate both their importance and their limits. One of the main goals of this method is to find out how individuals, due to their own personal reasons and feelings, are able to participate in the perpetration of mass murders. This is a worthy research path as long as it is backed by scientific evidence: It's a common misconception that the torturers' camp is a single group, although this is seldom the case. As a result, of the widespread usage and regularity of massacres, civilized civilizations see them as an illness, and an undesirable quality.
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