_Please download and make your way through the seminar program before beginning the readings. This will provide a suitable framework for your preparation._ In addition to those linked below, seminar readings and Powerpoint presentations can be downloaded seminar program.
### Day 1 - Thursday, April 20:
**Understanding Risk Factors in the Process of Mass Atrocity** James Waller, _It Can Happen Here: Assessing the Risk of Genocide in the U.S._ (2017) **Guided Tour of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights** NCCHR Exhibits Informational Brochure **Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities** (a)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 (b) excerpt from Jean Hatzfeld’s _Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak_ (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), pp. 21-27, 36-40 **Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC)** Andrew Rice, ["The Long Interrogation,"](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/magazine/04torturer.html) _The New York Times Magazine_ (June 2006) _Recommended reading for this module:_ "[Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and Ana Arana, et al., Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala (May 2015)](https://www.propublica.org/article/finding-oscar-massacre-memory-and-justice-in-guatemala)"
### Day 2 - Friday, April 21:
**Keynote Address - The Challenge of Policing in a Democratic Society: A Personal Journey Toward Understanding** Charles H. Ramsey, “The Challenge of Policing in a Democratic Society: A Personal Journey Toward Understanding,” New Perspectives in Policing Bulletin, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2014. NCJ 245992 **Policing in Multicultural Communities: Instilling Values for the Protection of Human and Civil Rights** Dr. Cedric L. Alexander, “Community Policing as a Counter to Bias in Policing: A Personal Perspective”, 126 Yale _L.J. F._ 381 (2017) _Recommended reading for this module:_ seminar program **FBI Civil Rights Unit: Federal Color of Law Investigations**
