The ISIS Genocide: While America Waits, Europe Acts Gideon Bratt, Clarion Project 09 February 2016     At a recent news conference, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said “There are lawyers considering whether or not [the term ‘genocide’] can be properly applied in this scenario.” But, while the Obama administration “considers” the issue, the European Parliament recently adopted a resolution which, for the first time,

We Can't Ignore The Worrying Signs of Genocide in Africa Gregory Stanton, Mail and Guardian, South Africa 29 January 2016     How do we make sure there’s not a return to the horror of Rwanda or Biafra? I have spent a lifetime working on the study of genocide, what causes it and how we can prevent the kind of mass killing that haunted the past century. From Armenia and the Nazi Holocaust to the Soviet Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution,

When (In)Action Speaks Louder Than Words: Confronting the Collapse of Humanitarian Values in Foreign Policy Decisions Paul Slovic, University of Illinois Law Review Slip Opinions 24 2015     “Why do good people and their governments repeatedly turn away from intervention that could halt genocides and other mass abuses of human beings?”   “What devaluation of human lives could possibly allow this?”   I began to examine such

Forty years on: A need for critical genocide studies Khamboly Dy, Phnom Penh Post 13 April 2015    Image: Wounded Cambodians at the hospital of Phnom Penh, during the Cambodian civil war. Francoise demulder/Roger Viollet/afp April 17 marks the 40th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge (KR) coming to power, after which the Cambodian people endured almost four years of the KR’s radical socialist transformation program between 1975 and 1979.   On

The man who invented the word ‘genocide': Watchers of the Sky examines the legacy of Raphael Lemkin by Public Radio of Armenia 19 Nov 2014 The documentary Watchers of the Sky examines the legacy of Raphael Lemkin, the man who succeeded in making genocide an international crime, The Daily Beast reports. Raphael Lemkin was, by all accounts, obsessed with genocide long before he invented a name for it. It began when he was a teenager in Poland, as

Madeleine Albright, Rwanda, and Darfur: How Genocides Happen Eric Reeves, 12 June 2014 Last week the New York Times reported (June 3, 2014) on a significant trove of UN diplomatic cables sent before and during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and recently declassified. All are marked "confidential" and are extraordinarily revealing of the thinking at the time by many Security Council members, and particularly the Clinton administration's Permanent

Pennsylvania schools to be encouraged to teach youth suicide prevention, history of genocide The Associated Press June 16, 2014 HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania schools could soon be encouraged to teach about youth suicide prevention and the history of genocide, under two separate measures headed to Gov. Tom Corbett's desk. Both bills passed the state House of Representatives on Monday. Under one bill, each school will be required to develop

Chapter 1[1] Why Do People Commit Genocide and What Can We Do To Stop It? Dr. Gregory Stanton[2]   Abstract The first chapter, emanating from the keynote lecture at the 2012 conference, addresses the ten stages of genocide, noting how the commission of genocide requires individuals to become willing and able to kill fellow human beings.  It describes, both in generic terms and in reference to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis, the process by