The rules of the Israel-Hamas war
Attacking a music festival, killing civilians, and bombing hospitals. They are all horendous happenings in the war between Hamas and Israel. Are all of them clear violations of international law or is...
15 Marras 202350min
The morals of a psychopath
Not all perpetrators are 'normal'. Some are narcissists or psychopaths. In today's epsiode, we mostly focus on this latter group, specifically in relation to their conscience. Do psychopaths have one?...
8 Marras 202340min
Trailer: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?
This is Terribly and Terribly Normal? A podcast series on the perpetrators of mass atrocities by Nicola Quaedvlieg and Alette Smeulers.
7 Marras 20231min
Victims as perpetrators
The distinction between perpetrators and victims of mass atrocities may seem clear. However, in reality, some people are both victims and perpetrators at the same time. In this episode, we discuss two...
1 Marras 202352min
A Booming Business
Trading weapons, selling hostages and privatizing armies: war is a booming business. But how big is the role of money in mass atrocities? Together with Annika van Baar, who is an assistant professor a...
25 Loka 202344min
Adolf Eichmann and the devoted warrior
Adolf Eichmann was one of the main executioners of the genocide during the Second World War. He is the personification of the banality of evil, the famous phrase Hannah Arendt used to describe him. In...
18 Loka 20231h 1min
Obedience, Conformity, and Groups
What is the role of obedience in mass atrocities? Do people just blindly follow orders? How important are groups and what about conformity? In this session we discuss what we can learn from social-psy...
11 Loka 202355min
Violent ideologies
Terrorist groups like the Islamic State and regimes like Nazi Germany often justify their crimes through their ideology. Did they really believe they did the right thing or was ideology used as an exc...
4 Loka 202356min
