2015 Global Raphael Lemkin Seminar Reading Materials
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_Seminar participants are **strongly urged** to read the following materials before their arrival in Poland. This will allow participants to take full advantage of the opportunities presented throughout the course._ Please download the full agenda of the seminar before beginning the readings. This will provide a framework for preparation. Presentations from the seminar can be downloaded in a ZIP archive full agenda.
### Monday, November 9 - Introductions and Context - \full agenda]
Introduction to the Concepts of Genocide, Atrocity Crimes, and Prevention James Waller, “Transcending Fratricide: The Politics of Naming” from Srda Pavlovic and Marko Zivkovic (eds.), Transcending Fratricide: Political Mythologies, Reconciliations, and the Uncertain Future in the Former Yugoslavia (Germany: Nomos, 2013), pp. 31-49 UN Genocide Convention (1951) The Holocaust: The Rise of Nazism (1933-1939) “Historical Overview” from Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 3-9
Guided Study Visit of Auschwitz I
“Auschwitz” from Adrian Weale’s Army of Evil: A History of the SS (New York: Penguin, 2010), pp. 366-397
### Tuesday, November 10 – Process and Place - \full agenda]
The Holocaust: The Final Solution as Process (1939-1945)
“Historical Overview” from Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 9-41
Between Memory, Commemoration and the Authentic Site: Auschwitz as a Reference Point for Contemporary Societies
Selections from _The Holocaust: Voices of Scholars_, edited by Jolanta Ambrosewic-Jacobs (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009) Guided Study Visit of Auschwitz II-Birkenau Selection from Primo Levi’s _If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)_, translated by Stuart Woolf (1959), pp. 19-27
### Wednesday, November 11 - Upstream Prevention: Frameworks for Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention
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Legal Frameworks for Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Atrocity James Waller, “The Ordinariness of Extraordinary Evil: The Making of Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Killing” from Olaf Jensen and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (eds.) _Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspective_ (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 145-164 Excerpt from Jean Hatzfeld’s _Machete Season: The Killers in_ _Rwanda Speak_ (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), pp. 21-27, 36-40 Moving from Upstream to Midstream: Response Tools for Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention
### Thursday, November 12 – Midstream Prevention: Responding to Genocide, War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing, and Crimes Against Humanity - \full agenda]
Early-Warning and Opportunities for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Atrocity Crimes “UN Office Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes” (2014) The Responsibility to Protect “A Vital and Enduring Commitment: Implementing the Responsibility to Protect” UN Doc A/69/981-S/2015/500 (13 July, 2015) “Responsibility to Protect: State Responsibility and Prevention” UN Doc A/67/929-S/2013/399 (9 July, 2013) Rwanda Case Study: When to Write your Own Rules – When Institutions Fail to Respond (Please browse the interviews at the following link, paying special attention to the segment devoted to [Instructor Laura Lane](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/interviews/lane.html).) Rwanda Bibliography
### Friday, November 13 – Downstream Prevention: Transitional Justice and Dealing with the Past - \full agenda]
Introductory Exercise: Justice, Truth, and Memory Introduction to Transitional Justice Clara Sandoval Villalba, "Transitional Justice, Key Concepts, Processes and Challenges, Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution" (July, 2011) “The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies” UNSC S/2011/634 (12 October, 2011) Institutional Reform through Transitional Justice and Mass Atrocity Prevention The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Transitional Justice Dan Stone, “Genocide and Memory” from Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses _The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies_ (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 102-119 Crisis Spot: Burma “Post 2014 UNGA Resolution Developments in Burma” (October 4, 2015), ALTSEAN, pp. 1-3, 6-7, 11-15, and 20-29
### Saturday, November 14 – Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention in Action - \full agenda]
**Capstone Simulation: Early Warning Assessment of Current At-Risk Area** “Rwanda Historical Background” “Rwanda Simulation Briefing”
