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The world is confusing, but there are experts in everything. In our least funny episode ever, we thankfully convinced a global expert, professor, researcher, author, and Genocidologist (it\u2019s a real word) Dr. Dirk Moses to answer the questions that we may secretly have: What exactly is genocide? How long has it been happening? Is it a war crime? Is it a crime of atrocity? Who makes up humanitarian law? What's self-defense \u2014 and what's offense? How is it litigated? Whose business is it? Why do we do this to each other? What can be done? It\u2019s a dense, long episode with lots of asides for history and context, but it might be just what you need to give you perspective on the conditions \u2014 and cycles of trauma \u2014 that can lead to crimes of atrocities. \nFollow Dr. Dirk Moses on X\nRead his book, \u201cThe Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression\u201d\nA donation went to student tuition at City College of New York\nMore episode sources and links\nSmologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes\nOther episodes you may enjoy: Indigenous Fire Ecology (GOOD FIRE), Indigenous Cuisinology (NATIVE FOODS), Indigenous Pedology (SOIL SCIENCE), Ethnoecology (ETHNOBOTANY/NATIVE PLANTS), Bryology (MOSS), Black American Magirology (FOOD, RACE & CULTURE)\nSponsors of Ologies\nTranscripts and bleeped episodes\nBecome a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month\nOlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, hoodies, totes!\nFollow @Ologies on Instagram and X\nFollow @AlieWard on Instagram and X\nEditing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions, Jacob Chaffee, and Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media\nAdditional producing and research by Mercedes Maitland\nManaging Director: Susan Hale\nScheduling producer: Noel Dilworth\nTranscripts by Aveline Malek \nWebsite by Kelly R. Dwyer\nTheme song by Nick Thorburn