2020 Global Raphael Lemkin Seminar Reading Materials
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_Seminar participants are **strongly urged** to read the following materials before their arrival in Poland. This will allow participants to take full advantage of the opportunities presented throughout the course._ Please download the full agenda of the seminar before beginning the readings. It will provide you with a useful framework for preparation [**PDF Download** **Link**]. This document also includes the short biographies of the seminar attendees. For more information on the pedagogical approach of the Auschwitz Institute, please [**PDF Download** **Link** to read a short note on AIPG's curricular methodology from our Director of Academic Programs, Dr. James Waller. The Auschwitz Institute's Health and Medical Liability Disclaimer can be found by [**PDF Download** **Link**.
### Monday, March 16 - Introductions and Context - [**PDF Download** **Link**]
**Introduction to the Concepts of Genocide, Atrocity Crimes, and Prevention**
James Waller, “Transcending Fratricide: The Politics of Naming” from Srda Pavlovic and Marko Zivkovic (eds.), Transcending Fratricide: Political Mythologies, Reconciliations, and the Uncertain Future in the Former Yugoslavia (Germany: Nomos, 2013), pp. 31-49
UN Genocide Convention (1951)
**The Holocaust: The Death of Democracy and the Rise of Nazism (1933-1939)**
“Historical Overview” from Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 3-9
**Guided Study Visit of Auschwitz I**
“Auschwitz” from Adrian Weale’s Army of Evil: A History of the SS (New York: Penguin, 2010), pp. 366-397
### Tuesday, March 17 – Process and Place - [**PDF Download** **Link**]
**The Holocaust: The Final Solution as Process (1939-1945)**
“Historical Overview” from Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 9-41
**Between Memory, Commemoration and the Authentic Site: Auschwitz as a Reference Point for Contemporary Societies**
Selections from The Holocaust: Voices of Scholars, edited by Jolanta Ambrosewic-Jacobs (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009)
**Guided Study Visit of Auschwitz II-Birkenau** Selection from Primo Levi’s _If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)_, translated by Stuart Woolf (1959), pp. 19-27 **Group Debriefing of Auschwitz Experience** Orlando Crowcroft, “Did Poland Take Part in the Holocaust? New Claims Contradict Law That Makes It Illegal to Blame the Country,” _Newsweek_ (April 26, 2018).
### Wednesday, March 18 - Upstream Prevention: Framework for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention - [**PDF Download** **Link**]
**The Responsibility to Protect: Recent Developments and Emerging Trends**
“Implementing the Responsibility to Protect,” Report of the Secretary-General (12 January 2009), UN A/63/677
**The Role of National Mechanisms in Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention** _National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes: Effective and Sustainable Prevention Begins at Home_ (AIPR, 2015), pp. 2-3, 5-11 _National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Atrocity Crimes: Integration Into the State Architecture for Prevention_ (AIPR, 2018) pp. 5-22
### Thursday, March 19 – Midstream Prevention: Responding to Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity - [**PDF Download** **Link**]
**Sexual Violence and the Myanmar Genocide**
Wai Wai Nu and Maggi Quadrini, “Myanmar’s Justice System is Failing Survivors of Sexual Violence,” _The Diplomat_ (February 13, 2020).
**Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Atrocity** James Waller, “The Ordinariness of Extraordinary Evil: The Making of Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Killing” from Olaf Jensen and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (eds.) _Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspective_ (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 145-164 Excerpt from Jean Hatzfeld’s _Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak_ (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), pp. 21-27, 36-40
### Friday, March 20 – Downstream Prevention: Transitional Justice and Mass Atrocity Prevention - [**PDF Download** **Link**]
**Introduction to Transitional Justice from a Mass Atrocity Prevention Perspective**
James Waller, Confronting Evil (2016), pp. 279-307
**The Role of Retributive Justice in Atrocity Prevention** Nick Grono and Anna de Courcy Wheeler, “The Deterrent Effect of the ICC on the Commission of International Crimes by Government Leaders”, in Stahn, C. (ed.) _The Law and Practice of the ICC_ (2015), pp. 1225-1244.
**Trauma and Mental Health Legacies of Conflict**
“The Scale of Conflict-Related Trauma in Northern Ireland” (2018).
**The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Transitional Justice**
Kerry Whigham, “Remembering to Prevent: The Preventive Capacity of Public Memory,” _Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal_ (2017), pp. 53-71.
### Saturday, March 21 – Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention in Action - [**PDF Download** **Link**]
**Capstone Simulation: Early Warning Assessment of Current At-Risk Area**
“Bosnia-Herzegovina Simulation Briefing”
