Stop Genocide Now
Dear President Trump, CC: The Honorable Mike Pence, Vice President The Honorable Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State The Honorable Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the United Nations We ask that the Administration immediately appoint a Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan in order to bring urgently needed diplomatic leadership to facilitate efforts to bring peace […]
On January 15, 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a statement about the developing situation in Burundi. In it, he talked of the “deeply worrying trends” emerging from Burundi and called for urgent investigation into allegations of humanitarian abuses that originated from mid to late 2015. The current escalation of violence began […]
Synopsis: This blog series discusses the social-psychological background of mass atrocities, and what implications it may have for genocide education. Ordinary Murderers, Part 1: Crimes of Obedience The extent of past and current mass violence is shocking and barely conceivable for most of us as detached, remote bystanders. The most horrible genocides of our time have […]