Utrecht, Netherlands
Organized By : H-Genocide Discussion Network
10 - 12 November 2016
This series of workshops aims to examine how our contradictory attitudes toward perpetrators in society and culture can in themselves be made the object of enquiry. Furthermore, we will explore the opportunities and challenges for teaching and learning about past atrocities through the figure of the perpetrator across disciplines.
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Webinar
Organized By : Stanley Center for Peace and Security
10 - 11 November 2016
How can funders empower civil society organizations to prevent atrocities? The Stanley Foundation and CRIES will present a new initiative they jointly launched in Buenos Aires in September 2016, the Latin American and Caribbean Mass Atrocity Prevention Network. Through the establishment of this network, civil society actors across the region have new opportunities to engage one another on important issues of prevention. Equally as important, the consolidated network will work directly with its state-based counterpart, the Latin American Network for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, to develop coordinated, informed approaches to prevention in the region and at the national level.
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New York
In observance of the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar Massacre, the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Ukraine and Israel, is organizing a panel discussion “Holocaust Remembrance and Public Memorials - the Complexities and Challenges of Facing the Past”. More than 33,000 Jewish men, women and children were murdered at Babi Yar, near Kiev, on 29 and 30 September 1941. This massacre is one of the largest mass killings at an individual location during the Second World War. It is estimated that some 100,000 people, including Jews, Roma, Communists and Soviet Prisoners, were murdered at Babi Yar between 1941 and 1945.
Holocaust experts and scholars from Brazil, Japan, Israel, United States, Ukraine and South Africa will discuss the relationship between Holocaust remembrance, public memory, and education in their countries. They will highlight their education programmes for youth.
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Tronto, Canada
Conference: 28 October 2016, held at the University of Tronto
Empires at times have shown little will to prevent famine, sometimes manipulating food provision as a weapon to control and/or exterminate social classes and “disloyal groups” in order to achieve political goals. The imperial famines have horrifying similarities, including roots in imperialistic governance, the vertical hierarchy of metropolis and colony, and the sacrifice of lives at the “periphery” in the name of the greater good of the empire. The conference series Empire, Colonialism and Famine in Comparative Historical Perspective will explore these issues and ways imperial governments have understated or hidden the results of faminogenic policies and the reactions of victims, first and foremost in the anti-colonial, anti-imperial movements in which the experience of man-made famine has served as a powerful awakening factor and motivation for achieving political transformation.
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Canberra, Australia
Organized By : Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
27 - 28 October 2016
The conference will assess the state of the field, and investigate both current practices and innovative approaches to atrocity prevention and civilian protection. It will benefit states, practitioners and academics that are seeking to better understand how R2P Pillars One and Two could be institutionalized and implemented in practice.
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