Publications – Timothy Williams (2024)

Edited volumes

4. 2021-2023. Editorials of ZeFKo Studies in Peace and Conflict as co-editor-in-chief (with Hartwig Hummel, Hanna Pfeifer and Solveig Richter)
5. Timothy Williams and Susanne Buckley-Zistel (eds.). 2018. Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence. Dynamics, motivations and concepts. Abingdon: Routledge.

Double-blind peer reviewed journals

6. Timothy Williams. In publication. “Remembering perpetrators, victims and heroes: the mnemonic legacy of violence.” Security Studies
7. Timothy Williams and Erin Jessee. 2024. “Perpetrators as Victims? Inclusivity and Proximity in Post-Genocide Cambodia and Rwanda.” Journal of Genocide Research
8. Timothy Williams and Duong Keo. 2024. “Counting tigers. Estimating the number of Khmer Rouge during Democratic Kampuchea.” Journal of Genocide Research 26 (3): 307-327.
9. Timothy Williams. 2022. “Dictators’ Drinks at the Pub. A Role Play on the Strategic Use of Power and Violence.” Journal of Political Science Education 18 (4): 652-663.
10. Timothy Williams. 2022. “Remembering and silencing complexity in post-genocide memorialisation: Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.” Memory Studies 15 (1): 3-19.
11. Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Timothy Williams. 2022. “A 5* destination. The Creation of New Transnational Moral Spaces of Remembrance on TripAdvisor.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 35 (2): 221-238.
12. Ulrike Krause and Timothy Williams. “Flexible Ethikgremien. Impulse für die Institutionalisierung ethisch verantwortlicher Feldforschung in der Konflikt- und Fluchtforschung.” Soziale Probleme 32 (1): 97-113.
13. Jan Reinermann and Timothy Williams. 2020. “Motivational Change of Low-level Perpetrators in Genocide.” An International Journal 1 (1): 144-165.
14. Timothy Williams. 2019. “Ideological and Behavioural Radicalisation into Terrorism – an Alternative Sequencing.” Journal for Deradicalization 19: 85-121.
15. Timothy Williams. 2019. “Konkurrierende Erinnerungspolitiken in Gedenkstätten. ‘Mnemonische Rollenzuschreibungen’ und Ellipsen im Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.” Peripherie 39 (1): 8-25.
16. Timothy Williams. 2019. “NGO interventions in the post-conflict memoryscape. The effect of competing “mnemonic role attributions” on reconciliation in Cambodia.” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 13 (2): 158-179.
17. Timothy Williams and Rhiannon Neilsen. 2019. “‘They will rot the society, rot the Party, and rot the army.’ Toxification as an ideology and motivation for perpetrating violence in the Khmer Rouge genocide?” Terrorism and Political Violence 31 (3): 494-515.
18. Timothy Williams. 2018. “Agency, responsibility, and culpability – the complexity of roles and self-representations of perpetrators.” Journal of Perpetrator Research 2 (1): 39-64.
19. Timothy Williams. 2018. “Visiting the tiger zone – methodological, conceptual and ethical challenges of ethnographic research on perpetrators.” International Peacekeeping 25 (5): 610-629.
20. Timothy Williams and Dominik Pfeiffer. 2017. “Unpacking the mind of evil. A sociological perspective on the role of intent and motivations in genocide.” Genocide Studies and Prevention 11 (2): 72-87.
21. Timothy Williams and Sergio Gemperle. 2017. “Sequence Will Tell! Integrating Temporality into Set-Theoretic Multi-Method Research Combining Comparative Process Tracing and Qualitative Comparative Analysis.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 20 (2): 121-135.
22. Timothy Williams. 2016. “More lessons learned from the Holocaust – towards a complexity-embracing approach to why genocide occurs.” Genocide Studies and Prevention 9 (3): 137-153.
23. Mariam Salehi and Timothy Williams. 2016. “Beyond Peace vs. Justice: Assessing Transitional Justice’s Impact on Enduring Peace using Qualitative Comparative Analysis.” Transitional Justice Review 1 (4): 96-123.
24. Timothy Williams. 2016. “Opportunism, authority and ideology. On the motivations of Turkish perpetrators as portrayed in the 1919 War Crimes trials” International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies 3
25. Timothy Williams. “The Complexity of Evil: a Multi-Faceted Approach to Genocide Perpetration.” Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 3 (1): 71-98.

Chapters in edited volumes

26. Timothy Williams. In publication. “Perpetrators.” In: Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky (eds.). Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, 2. edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
27. Timothy Williams. In publication. “Täter*innen und Täterschaft.” In: Christopher Cohrs, Nadine Knab and Gert Sommer (Hg.). Handbuch der Friedenspsychologie.
28. Timothy Williams. 2024. “Genocide in the Digital Era.” In: Jeff Bachmann (ed.). Genocide Studies. Pathways Ahead. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
29. Timothy Williams. 2021. “Resilience in Post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia: Systemic Dimensions and the Limited Contributions of Transitional Justice.” In: Janine Natalya Clark and Michael Terence Ungar (eds.). Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 164-186.
30. Timothy Williams. 2020. “Victims everywhere, perpetrators nowhere – on the methodological, conceptual and ethical challenges of locating and talking to perpetrators in Cambodia.” In: Kjell Anderson and Erin Jessee (eds.). Researching Perpetrators of Genocide. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press: 49-66.
31. Timothy Williams. 2020. “Perpetrator Research.” In: Oliver Richmond/Gëzim Visoka (eds.). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: 1109-1117.
32. Timothy Williams. 2020. “Teaching about Perpetrators and Perpetration in Genocide.” In: Samuel Totten (ed.). Teaching About Genocide: Advice and Suggestions from Secondary Level Teachers and Professors. Volume Three. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield: 111-116.
33. Timothy Williams. 2020. “The Potential and Limitations of Student Fieldwork on Continents and in Nations Other Than Their Own.” In: Samuel Totten (ed.). Teaching About Genocide: Advice and Suggestions from Secondary Level Teachers and Professors. Volume Three. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield: 245-252.
34. Timothy Williams. 2019. “Visiting the tiger zone – methodological, conceptual and ethical challenges of ethnographic research on perpetrators.” In: Gearoid Millar (ed.). Engaging Ethnographic Peace Research. Abingdon: Routledge: 14-33. (re-print of the International Peacekeeping article)
35. Mariam Salehi and Timothy Williams. 2019. “Frieden und Transitional Justice.” In: Hans J. Gießmann/Bernhard Rinke (eds.). Handbuch Frieden. 2^nd Wiesbaden: Springer VS: 731-740.
36. Timothy Williams. 2018. “‘I am not, what I am.’ A typological approach to individual (in)action in the Holocaust.” In: Christina Morina/Krijn Thijs (eds.). Probing the Limits of Categorization: The Bystander in Holocaust History. New York: Berghahn: 72-89.
37. Timothy Williams. 2018. “Perpetrator-victims. How universal victimhood in Cambodia impacts dealing with the past and transitional justice measures.” In: Nanci Adler (ed.). Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice: Narratives in Historical Perspective. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press: 194-212.
38. Timothy Williams and Susanne Buckley-Zistel. 2018. “Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: an introduction.” In: Timothy Williams/Susanne Buckley-Zistel (eds.). Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence. Dynamics, motivations and concepts. Abingdon: Routledge: 1-14.
39. Timothy Williams. 2018. “Thinking beyond perpetrators, bystanders, heroes: a typology of action in genocide.” In: Timothy Williams/Susanne Buckley-Zistel (eds.). Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence. Dynamics, motivations and concepts. Abingdon: Routledge: 17-35.
40. Timothy Williams. 2017. “The foot soldiers of evil – on the importance of individual perpetrators in genocide prevention.” In: Samuel Totten (ed.). Last Lectures on the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide (Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity). Abingdon: Routledge.

Research reports

41. Kirsty Campbell and Timothy Williams. Diskriminierung erkennen, Resilienz stärken. Studie mit und zu zugewanderten Rom*nja in NRW [Identifying discrimination, strengthening resilience. Study with and on immigrant Roma in NRW]. Neubiberg: University of the Bundeswehr Munich.
42. Timothy Williams, Julie Bernath, Boravin Tann, and Somaly Kum. Justice and reconciliation for the victims of the Khmer Rouge? Victim participation in Cambodia’s transitional justice process. Research report. Marburg: Centre for Conflict Studies; Phnom Penh: Centre for Study of Humanitarian Law; Bern: swisspeace.

Book reviews, research briefs and non-peer reviewed chapters

43. Timothy Williams. “Review of Judith M. Hughes, The Perversion of Holocaust Memory: Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies
44. Timothy Williams. “Why do people participate in genocide?”International Association of Genocide Scholars Research Brief
45. Timothy Williams. “Warum töten sie? Motivationen von Täter*innen im Völkermord.” Wissenschaft & Frieden
46. Timothy Williams. “A moment of reflection and innovation in perpetrator studies. Review of: Alette Smeulers, Maartje Weerdesteijn and Barbora Holá eds., Perpetrators of International Crimes. Theories, Methods, and Evidence.” Journal of Perpetrator Research 3 (1): 258–263.
47. Timothy Williams. “Gedenkstätten als Erinnerungsräume in den Post-Konflikt-Ländern Ruanda und Kambodscha.” In: Charlotte Dany/Christoph Picker (eds.). Mahnmal ehemaliger Westwall – Geteilte Verantwortung für einen Grenzraum. Landau: akademie_skizzen_08.
48. Timothy Williams. “Book review: The Justice Facade. Trials of Transition in Cambodia by Alexander Laban Hinton.” Genocide Studies and Prevention 13 (2): 152-154.
49. Timothy Williams. “Film Review: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.” Genocide Studies and Prevention: 12 (1): 113-114.
50. Timothy Williams. “Die Komplexität des Bösen.” Wissenschaft & Frieden
51. Timothy Williams. “Die Herrschaft der Khmer Rouge. Geschichte der fortgesetzten Gewalt in Kambodscha.” In: Bastian Bretthauer/Susanne Lenz/Jutta Werdes (eds.). Kambodscha. Ein politisches Lesebuch. Berlin: regiospectra.
52. Timothy Williams. “Book Review: Confronting Evil. Engaging Our Responsibility to Protect by James Waller.” Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network.
53. Annika Björkdahl, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler, Johanna Mannergren Selimovic and Timothy Williams. 2017. “Memory Politics, Cultural Heritage and Peace. Introducing an Analytical Framework to Study Mnemonic Formations.” Research Cluster on Peace, Memory & Cultural Heritage Working Papers
54. Timothy Williams. “Why did they join?” In: Dara Bramsan/Ali Al-Nasani (eds.). Dealing with the Past: Engaging in the Present. Phnom Penh: Heinrich Böll Foundation Cambodia: 47-51.
55. Timothy Williams. „Entering the Tiger Zone – Eine fotografisch-wissenschaftliche Ausstellung zu Kadern der Khmer Rouge.“ Südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog (with photos by Daniel Welschenbach).
56. Timothy Williams. “Book review: Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer by Alexander Laban Hinton.” Genocide Studies and Prevention 10 (3): 98-100.
57. Timothy Williams. “Warum haben sich ganz normale Menschen an Gewaltexzessen der Roten Khmer beteiligt?” in: Georg Wenz/Sascha Werthes (eds.). Erinnern – Verstehen – Verhindern. Vom schwierigen Umgang mit Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. Landau: Schriftenreihe der Evangelischen Akademie der Pfalz 02.
58. Timothy Williams. “Beyond Development and Counter-Insurgency. Searching for a Political Solution to the Malay Secessionist Conflict in Southern Thailand.” Scholar Report. London: LSE Asia Research Centre.
59. Timothy Williams. 2010. “Mindanao’s MoA-AD Debacle – An Analysis of Individuals’ Voices, Provincial Propaganda and National Disinterest.” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 29 (1): 121-144.