Superordinate-subordinate conflicts have driven most post-WWII genocides

Evidence

Or the conflict may be between superordinate or dominant groups and subordinate groups with limited rights and limited access to resources. Such conflicts deeply affect the needs for security and positive identity, as well as other basic needs. They have often been the originators of mass killing or genocide since World War II (Fein, 1993). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 86

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Secular ideologies carried out most twentieth-century genocides; Civility coordinated the genocide and prompted bystander passivity rather than resistance — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 320

Broader Connections