Mark Levene is Emeritus Fellow in the History Department, University of Southampton. During the last quarter century he has sought to cross-relate his writings on genocide with a more activist engagement with issues of peace and the climate emergency. Recent work includes the two volume, The Crisis of Genocide: The European Rimlands, 1912-1953(2013) which won the Institute for the Study of Genocide, 2015 Lemkin award, and lead-editorship of History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure (2010).