R.J. Rummel

RUDOLPH JOSEPH RUMMEL was an American political scientist and professor who taught at Indiana University, Yale University, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and the author of more than twenty-four scholarly books. His books include The Miracle That Is Freedom, Power Kills and Understanding Conflict and War.

Rummel received the Susan Strange Award of the International Studies Association and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 from the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association. He was also frequently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rummel spent his career studying data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination, coining the term "democide" for murder by government. Much of his work grew directly from that research.

R.J. Rummel’s books are published by Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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