Genocide: Knowing the Past, Safeguarding the Future

3rd Global Conference on Genocide by the International Network of Genocide Scholars at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA June 28th – July 1st, 2012.  

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Seventy years after the infamous Wannsee Conference, a landmark on the road to the attempted annihilation of European Jewry, genocide is now a crime under international law, and genocide memory and Holocaust commemoration are part of public consciousness in most parts of the world. Non-governmental organizations in particular campaign tirelessly against mass violence. And yet people across the world are continuously persecuted, expelled or killed because of their race, religion, gender or political affiliation. Collective violence organised by states or sub-state actors is endemic in many regions, and despite all its human rights rhetoric the international community mostly closes its eyes to such atrocities. It appears that prevention has failed, the “Never Again” at the end of World War II gone unheard.

The failure of the international community to develop effective mechanisms to prevent genocide finds its parallel in academia's failure to critically reflect on the state of prevention or to develop new theoretical approaches to respond to it. The International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) has chosen Genocide: Knowing the Past, Safeguarding the Future as the topic of its 3^rd Global Conference on Genocide. 

If you have any questions about the conference contact both chairs of the program committee, Volker Langbehn (langbehn@sfsu.edu), and Jürgen Zimmerer (juergen.zimmerer@uni-hamburg.de).

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German Stammtisch: Please check back in the Spring semester 2012. Any questions? Please contact Andrew Kale Smith <asmith91@mail.sfsu.edu>