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January 18, 2023

Lemkin Seminar Readings - November 2014

A .ZIP archive of the seminar readings is available for download here, while the instructor presentations are available here. **_Monday, November 17 – Introductions and Context_** 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) Gregory Stanton’s briefing paper, "The 8 Stages of Genocide” (1998) “Historical Overview,” from Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, _The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust_ (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 3-9 “Auschwitz,” from Adrian Weale’s _Army of Evil: A History of the SS_ (New York: Penguin, 2010), pp. 366-397 **_Tuesday, November 18 – Process and Memory_** “Historical Overview,” from Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000) _The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust_, pp. 9-41 Selections from _The Holocaust: Voices of Scholars_, edited by Jolanta Ambrosewic-Jacobs (Jagiellonian University and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009) Selection from Primo Levi’s _If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz),_ translated by Stuart Woolf (1959), pp. 19-27 **_Wednesday, November 19 – Perpetrators, Frameworks for Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention, and Response Tools_** Sheri Rosenberg and Everita Silina, “Genocide by Attrition: Silent and Efficient,” (US: Routledge, 2013) 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 “Developments after the 2013 UNGA Resolution,” (September 19, 2014), ALTSEAN **_Thursday, November 20 – Preventing and Responding to Risks of Genocide, War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing, and Crimes Against Humanity_** UN Office Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes (2014) Responsibility to Protect: State Responsibility and Prevention (2013) Fulfilling Our Collective Responsibility: International Assistance and the Responsibility to Protect (2014) **_Friday, November 21 – Transitional Justice and Dealing with the Past_** Pablo de Greiff, “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence,” UNDOC A/HRC/21/46, August 2012 Andrea Gualde, “Reparations for Crimes against Humanity as Public Policy – The Relationship with the Past as a Tool of Prevention: From the Individual to the Collective” Dan Stone, “Genocide and Memory,” from Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses _The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies_ (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 102-119 Robert Muggah and Gustavo Diniz, “Digitally Enhanced Violence Prevention in the Americas,” _Stability: International Journal of Security & Development_ (2013), pp. 1-23 **_Saturday, November 22 – Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention in Action_** Rwanda Background Briefing
Sheri P. Rosenberg

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Filling the Silence: A Study in Corporate Holocaust History and the Nature of Corporate Memory
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Auschwitz Institute Annual Reports

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Booklet on National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes (2015-2018)

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Annual Reports of the Latin American Network for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

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