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Zoryan Institute's genocide program scheduled for August
March 2, 2013 - 11:02 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The International Institute for Genocide and Human
Rights Studies, a division of the Zoryan Institute (IIGHRS) has
announced that the Genocide and Human Right University Program
(GHRUP), now in its twelfth year, will take place in Toronto August
5-16, 2013.
This year the Institute welcomes a new faculty member, Prof. David
MacDonald, who will teach the unit on `The Genocide of Indigenous
Peoples,' referring primarily to the native peoples of North and South
America.
George Shirinian, Executive Director of the Institute, noted that `The
field of Genocide and Human Rights Studies is vast, and it is not
possible to cover every case of genocide in the time available.
Therefore, we do rotate some of the subjects, and I am pleased that we
will be examining the experience of the Native Peoples in this regard.
Many people feel that it is a current and ongoing case of genocide.'
Prof. MacDonald has outlined the subject in the following way.
`Indigenous peoples, also known as `Aboriginal Peoples,' `First
Nations,' `Native Peoples,' and collectively as the `Fourth World,'
have faced cultural destruction, forced removal from ancestral lands,
deliberate killing, theft of children, and genocide, for centuries.
This unit examines the genocidal experiences of selected indigenous
peoples of both North and South America, with particular reference to
the impact and ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. In addition to
case studies, definitions of genocide and the usefulness of the UN
Genocide Convention to indigenous peoples will also be discussed.'
David B. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Political Science and
chair of his department's graduate program at the University of
Guelph. He has a PhD in International Relations from the London School
of Economics, and has held faculty positions (as a tenured Senior
Lecturer) at the University of Otago, New Zealand (2002-7), and at the
ESCP Graduate School of Management Paris (1999-2002). He is the author
of three books on genocide. He is also involved with Canada's Truth
and Reconciliation Commission, and has contributed work on the
question of genocide in the Indian Residential School system.
Now counting over 300 graduates from at least 20 different countries,
the GHRUP strives to achieve multiple goals: to encourage the
development of a new generation of young scholars to take up the study
of genocide professionally at an advanced level; to illuminate the
causes of genocide, the way it takes place, and its devastating
impact; to bring a measure of healing and relief to various
communities through the sharing of great trauma of many peoples; to
study and teach in an interdisciplinary manner; to employ a
comparative perspective in examining cases of genocide, such as the
Jewish Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Darfur, with the
Armenian Genocide as a point of reference as the prototype of modern
genocide; and to use this comparative approach to identify the
characteristics of genocide so that it becomes predictable and in turn
hopefully preventable.
- See more at: http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/148251/#sthash.njzQTpeL.dpuf
From: Baghdasarian
March 2, 2013 - 11:02 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The International Institute for Genocide and Human
Rights Studies, a division of the Zoryan Institute (IIGHRS) has
announced that the Genocide and Human Right University Program
(GHRUP), now in its twelfth year, will take place in Toronto August
5-16, 2013.
This year the Institute welcomes a new faculty member, Prof. David
MacDonald, who will teach the unit on `The Genocide of Indigenous
Peoples,' referring primarily to the native peoples of North and South
America.
George Shirinian, Executive Director of the Institute, noted that `The
field of Genocide and Human Rights Studies is vast, and it is not
possible to cover every case of genocide in the time available.
Therefore, we do rotate some of the subjects, and I am pleased that we
will be examining the experience of the Native Peoples in this regard.
Many people feel that it is a current and ongoing case of genocide.'
Prof. MacDonald has outlined the subject in the following way.
`Indigenous peoples, also known as `Aboriginal Peoples,' `First
Nations,' `Native Peoples,' and collectively as the `Fourth World,'
have faced cultural destruction, forced removal from ancestral lands,
deliberate killing, theft of children, and genocide, for centuries.
This unit examines the genocidal experiences of selected indigenous
peoples of both North and South America, with particular reference to
the impact and ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. In addition to
case studies, definitions of genocide and the usefulness of the UN
Genocide Convention to indigenous peoples will also be discussed.'
David B. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Political Science and
chair of his department's graduate program at the University of
Guelph. He has a PhD in International Relations from the London School
of Economics, and has held faculty positions (as a tenured Senior
Lecturer) at the University of Otago, New Zealand (2002-7), and at the
ESCP Graduate School of Management Paris (1999-2002). He is the author
of three books on genocide. He is also involved with Canada's Truth
and Reconciliation Commission, and has contributed work on the
question of genocide in the Indian Residential School system.
Now counting over 300 graduates from at least 20 different countries,
the GHRUP strives to achieve multiple goals: to encourage the
development of a new generation of young scholars to take up the study
of genocide professionally at an advanced level; to illuminate the
causes of genocide, the way it takes place, and its devastating
impact; to bring a measure of healing and relief to various
communities through the sharing of great trauma of many peoples; to
study and teach in an interdisciplinary manner; to employ a
comparative perspective in examining cases of genocide, such as the
Jewish Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Darfur, with the
Armenian Genocide as a point of reference as the prototype of modern
genocide; and to use this comparative approach to identify the
characteristics of genocide so that it becomes predictable and in turn
hopefully preventable.
- See more at: http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/148251/#sthash.njzQTpeL.dpuf
From: Baghdasarian