Armenian Resistance to the Hamidian Massacres
Between 1894 and 1896, the Hamidian massacres claimed the lives of more than 100,000 Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. This article presents an exploratory analysis of Armenian resistance to the massacres....
View ArticleCritique Beyond Judgment: Exploring Testimony and Truth in the Classroom
This essay offers a set of strategies for utilizing the words of survivors and of witnesses to genocide in the classroom. Including the voices of survivors and victims in our classroom conversations...
View ArticlePillage as the Political Economy of the Kurdish Anfal Genocide
Scholars are critical of how economists overlook “the questions of genocide,” and of how legislatures have not paid adequate attention to the subject of looting, except in the case of the Armenian...
View ArticleNegationist Denialism in the "Comfort Women" Issue in Japan
This article deals with the pervasive and entrenched nature of Japanese denialism on wartime memories, mainly focusing on the “comfort women” issue. It argues that a lens of “negationism” is more...
View ArticleInstitutional Legacies and the Decision to Commit Genocide
Despite their striking similarities, which include population demographics, size, and a legacy of inter-group conflict, the collapse of democratization in Rwanda and Burundi in the early 1990s led to...
View ArticleWhy China Cares about Canada’s Indigenous Residential Schools: from...
This article examines how the Chinese government and its propaganda departments use genocide-related discourses to fulfil different political purposes at home and abroad. By criticizing Western...
View ArticleBook Review: Derviš M. Korkut: A Biography—Rescuer of the Sarajevo Haggadah
At the beginning of 2020, the Sarajevo-based publishing house El-Kalem, released a biography of Derviš M. Korkut, a Bosniak hero, to whom Yad Vashem posthumously awarded Righteous among the Nations on...
View ArticleAotearoa New Zealand, the Forcible Transfer of Tamariki and Rangatahi Māori,...
This article investigates to what extent the forcible transfer of tamariki and rangatahi Māori (Indigenous children and youth) in Aotearoa New Zealand can be considered genocide. First, I begin by...
View ArticleArts & Literature: Voices of Kurdish Women Survivors: Healing Through Wounds...
The Kurdish genocide tragically stole a generation, yet little attention has been given to the profound anguish endured by women left without husbands, fathers or sons. The poems "Alive," "Waiting,"...
View ArticleBook Review: Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of...
The book ‘Children of the Greek Civil War’ makes several key steps forward in analyzing the politics and emotions surrounding the 47,000 child refugees of the Greek Civil War. Although the war was...
View ArticleBook Review: Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: From Alexander to Hitler to the...
The book Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths is a survey of a vast amount of human wrongdoing. It lays bare the motivations of aggressors who wish to subjugate nations or groups of people and corporate...
View ArticleThe Social Determinants of Health and Genocide: Towards a Public Health...
This paper makes a normative argument about transformations of public health as a necessary condition required in any transitional justice process. We seek to bridge the gap between the fields of...
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