From Social Research, a special issue on "Difficult Choices", including Edna Ullmann-Margalit on Difficult Choices: To Agonize or Not to Agonize?, Isaac Levi on Identity and Conflict; Jonathan Moore on Deciding Humanitarian Intervention and Mary Anderson on To Work, or Not to Work, in "Tainted" Circumstances: Difficult Choices for Humanitarians. Staying neutral: A new report furthers the debate on how far aid organisations are moving away from the "political humanitarianism" of recent years. A look at how the free rider theory provides a novel explanation of why the world regularly fails to halt genocide. An excerpt from Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan. A review of Helen Fein's Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide. A

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