Governments and agencies should prepare second chance opportunities for formal education as emergency situations may last for several years and create a backlog of education.
Articles on Genocide
Displaying 201 - 220 of 333 articles
A scholar of the Rwandan genocide argues that while a genocide and a pandemic are very different, the experiences of Rwanda’s survivors may provide lessons on how to heal from pandemic trauma.
Rights-based pressure on China over its treatment of Uyghurs is necessary, but other nations could also present best practices for the ethical treatment of racialized minorities in their own countries.
Music is supposed to transcend the mundane and horrific. Yet it has also served as an accompaniment to torture and punishment.
The study of the Holocaust, as the ultimate example of genocide, allows teachers to raise the universal message of human rights abuses and mass violence.
When your ‘friend’ and biggest trading partner is accused of genocide you can’t ignore it. But meaningful change will take more than words.
The crowds that stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6 were not just engaged in an effort to support Trump. The symbols they carried were of an extreme form of anti-Semitism.
Foreign companies are failing to heed the UN call to stop doing business with Myanmar’s blood-stained military elite.
Each side in the bloody Nagorno-Karabakh conflict accuses the other of war crimes. Such allegations attract foreign attention and possibly intervention, but rarely lead to a peaceful solution.
Australia has maintained military and trade ties with Myanmar. If Myanmar is not fully complying with the ICJ order, this puts Canberra in a sticky position.
Between 1992 and 1994, the former regime is said to have imported 581 tonnes of machetes into Rwanda. This figure appears to establish that the genocide was planned. But is this number accurate?
More than 20 years after the shift from unilateralism to multilateralism, it is reasonable to wonder how multilateral France’s ‘new interventionism’ really is.
Reports have emerged of Uighur women being forcibly sterilised in China’s Xinjiang province. Why this could be genocide under international law.
The Bolsonaro government cannot simply allow Brazil’s out-of-control coronavirus pandemic to decimate its Indigenous population, Brazil’s Supreme Court says.
In July 1995, Serb forces murdered at least 7,000 Bosnian Muslims – an act so heinous it forced the US and UN to intervene in Bosnia’s war. What has the world learned since then about ethnic violence?
Indigenous communities were already suffering badly under Bolsonaro. Now, COVID-19 threatens their very survival.
The former president’s complex legacy has often been marred by violence.
The culture of remembrance in Germany is viewed by many as exemplary. But it has some grave shortcomings.
There is no responsibility to protect people from pandemics – but the world must still safeguard those at risk of mass atrocities.
It seems that former president FW De Klerk continues to find it hard to accept that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
Top contributors
-
Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
-
Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
-
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
-
Professor of Law, University of Waikato
-
Professor in Political Science, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
-
Associate Professor International Law, Roskilde University
-
Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
-
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
-
Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London
-
Professor, Lancaster Law School, Lancaster University
-
Assistant Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
-
Professor Emeritus in Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester
-
Professor of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape
-
Adjunct Professor of Mass Atrocities Prevention, Georgetown University; University of Connecticut
-
Associate Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba