Kabuga’s release raises questions about the international community’s commitment to delivering justice for genocide victims.
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College students learn about people who have dedicated their professional lives to reducing the threat of violence – and their successes and failures.
Even though the Tigray war front moved past Dabba Selama several times, the community suffered less than other nearby villages.
The failure to hold the perpetrators of the Darfur genocide accountable has led to further instability in Sudan.
There have been numerous efforts to limit students’ access to books and curricula about certain historical and societal topics. But history itself shows democracy suffers when people are uninformed.
It’s a near certainty that Kagame will be here for some time to come; but as Rwanda looks to the future, it may need or indeed demand a change of guard.
China’s Xi Xinping had trialled his COVID lockdown measures on what he callously called the ‘virus’ of the Uighurs, writes Stan Grant. COVID lockdowns are now over, but the trace of tyranny remains.
Recent studies on mass violence have turned the spotlight on the resilience of targeted individuals and communities.
Forensic anthropologist Alexa Hagerty’s work faced her with the brutality of the genocides in Guatemala and in Argentina’s “Dirty War” – and with the bureaucratic violence of state institutions.
The International Criminal Court sets a high bar for prosecuting heads of state for crimes committed while they are in power.
The Genocide Convention says the forced transfer of children could constitute genocide if the intent was to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
The Banyamulenge have been viewed as strangers in their own country – the violence targeting them revolves around this misconception.
Many genocide classes review the Holocaust or Cambodia’s Killing Fields. A scholar wanted to show that genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing still happen today.
Three Ukranian authors, including Maria Tumarkin – who’s made a powerful statement – have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week after harsh criticism of the Ukranian president by a participating author.
The Holocaust has become a contentious issue in Poland in recent years. And those challenging the government’s historical narrative have faced condemnation and lawsuits.
This theme of this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day encourages us to ask difficult questions of ourselves and society.
Canada’s recent resolution to label the Indian Residential School system as genocide (and not cultural genocide) is not a mere alteration of words, it is a significant and consequential change.
There isn’t one, clear-cut way to prevent genocide. But there are effective methods of prevention that governments can take.
The erasure of indigenous people living in Windhoek before the German colonisers arrived has angered activists.
The international response to the refugee crisis in Ukraine has been impressive. But humanitarian aid is falling short to help refugees in other countries such as Bangladesh, Yemen and Ethiopia.
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor in Political Science, University of Freiburg
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Queen's University Belfast
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PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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Professor Emeritus in Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor International Law, Roskilde University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London
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Professor of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape
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Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
