Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights

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Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights
AbbreviationCGHR
Formation2008;15 years ago (2008)
TypeResearch Center
Legal statusU.S. 501(c)(3) organization
HeadquartersRutgers University
Location
Director
 Alex Hinton
Website

The Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR) is a non-profit organization established in 2008 and based at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [1] CGHR examines genocide and mass violence -- as well as their aftermaths and prevention -- through an annual center-wide thematic as well as longer-term projects on global challenges like prevention, bigotry and hate, education and resilience, and Mideast and U.S.-Russian dialogue. In addition, CGHR hosts the UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention. CGHR is led by founder and Director Alexander Hinton [2] and Associate Director Nela Navarro [3] and involves the work of a team of visiting scholars, project leaders, affiliated faculty and students, and partners across the United States and the globe.

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Mission

According to CGHR's website, the Center's mission "is to understand and prevent genocide and mass atrocity crimes. In doing so, CGHR takes a critical prevention approach. On the one hand, we grapple with critical human rights issues, including the most pressing 21st century challenges that may give rise to genocide, atrocity crimes, and related interventions. On the other hand, we use a critical lens to rethink assumptions and offer alternative ideas and solutions." [1]

Programs

CGHR has a number of research initiatives related to genocide and human rights, including its UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention and projects on U.S.-MidEast Dialogue, Forgotten Genocides, Human Rights Education, Raphael Lemkin, and Truth in the Americas. [4] Most recently, the Center convened the 2019-24 Global Consortium on Bigotry and Hate with eight international partners. [5]

Media Coverage

Articles about CGHR have appeared in the local, national, and international media. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

CGHR Rutgers University Press book, “Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights” [12]

CGHR e-zine, “The Rutgers Humanist” [13]

CGHR e-journal, "Global Voices"

CGHR conference and event-related publications [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

Related Research Articles

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Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Genocide denial</span> Attempt to deny the scale and severity of genocide

Genocide denial is the attempt to deny or minimize the scale and severity of an instance of genocide. Denial is an integral part of genocide and includes the secret planning of genocide, propaganda while the genocide is going on, and destruction of evidence of mass killings. According to genocide researcher Gregory Stanton, denial "is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres".

Edward Samuel Herman was an American economist, media scholar and social critic. Herman is known for his media criticism, in particular the propaganda model hypothesis he developed with Noam Chomsky, a frequent co-writer. He held an appointment as Professor Emeritus of finance at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Responsibility to Protect is a global political commitment which was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The doctrine is regarded as a unanimous and well-established international norm over the past two decades.

Gregory H. Stanton is the former research professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at the George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. He is best known for his work in the area of genocide studies. He is the founder and president of Genocide Watch, the founder and director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, and the Chair of the Alliance Against Genocide. From 2007 to 2009 he was the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

Scott Straus is an American political scientist currently serving as a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Strauss received a BA in English from Dartmouth College and a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on genocide, violence, human rights and African politics. He was previously a freelance journalist based in Africa, and in 2000 was a visiting fellow at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He is the 2018 winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order for his book Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa.

The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention is an international non-governmental organisation based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with approximately 60 members in North America. Its mission is "to prevent the crime of genocide worldwide through effective early warning and cooperation with victimized peoples to carry out non-violent prevention initiatives." The Sentinel Project was founded in 2008 by two students, Taneem Talukdar and Christopher Tuckwood, at the University of Waterloo. In 2009, the Sentinel Project's approach was selected as a finalist in Google's 10 to the 100th competition for innovative social application of technology. This organization has been recognized as one of four active anti-genocide organizations based in Canada and is a member of the International Alliance to End Genocide, and the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect.

The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) is a research institute based at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1986 and promotes human rights awareness, in the field of genocide and mass atrocities by hosting frequent events, publishing policy briefs, engaging in counter activism on the web, and many other programs. Its keystone project is the Will to Intervene (W2I) Project which, under the advisement of Lt. General Roméo Dallaire and MIGS' Director Frank Chalk, builds domestic political will in Canada and the United States to prevent future mass atrocities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cambodian genocide denial</span> Early skepticism in Khmer Rouge atrocities

Cambodian genocide denial is the belief expressed by some Western academics that early claims of atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge government (1975–1979) in Cambodia were much exaggerated. Many scholars of Cambodia and intellectuals opposed to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War denied or minimized reports of human rights abuses of the Khmer Rouge, characterizing contrary reports as "tales told by refugees" and U.S. propaganda. They viewed the assumption of power by the Communist Party of Kampuchea as a positive development for the people of Cambodia who had been severely impacted by the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. On the other side of the argument, anti-communists in the United States and elsewhere saw in the rule of the Khmer Rouge vindication of their belief that the victory of Communist governments in Southeast Asia would lead to a "bloodbath."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cambodian genocide</span> 1975–1979 mass killing by the Khmer Rouge

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Risk factors for genocide</span> Signs of active or impending genocide

The assessment of risk factors for genocide is an upstream mechanism for genocide prevention. The goal is to apply an assessment of risk factors to improve the predictive capability of the international community before the killing begins, and prevent it. There may be many warning signs that a country may be leaning in the direction of a future genocide. If signs are presented, the international community takes notes of them and watches over the countries that have a higher risk. Many different scholars, and international groups, have come up with different factors that they think should be considered while examining whether a nation is at risk or not. One predominant scholar in the field James Waller came up with his own four categories of risk factors: governance, conflict history, economic conditions, and social fragmentation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Genocide prevention</span> Any act or actions that works toward averting future genocides

Prevention of genocide is any action that works toward averting future genocides. Genocides take a lot of planning, resources, and involved parties to carry out, they do not just happen instantaneously. Scholars in the field of genocide studies have identified a set of widely agreed upon risk factors that make a country or social group more at risk of carrying out a genocide, which include a wide range of political and cultural factors that create a context in which genocide is more likely, such as political upheaval or regime change, as well as psychological phenomena that can be manipulated and taken advantage of in large groups of people, like conformity and cognitive dissonance. Genocide prevention depends heavily on the knowledge and surveillance of these risk factors, as well as the identification of early warning signs of genocide beginning to occur.

The Global Justice Center (GJC) is an international human rights and humanitarian law organization aiming to advance gender equality by helping to implement and enforce human rights laws. Headquartered in New York City and led by Akila Radhakrishnan, the GJC is a member of the United Nations NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. The GJC works with national and international Non-governmental organizations, the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and others to promote the progressive, feminist interpretation and application of international law.

Nela Navarro is a professor at Rutgers University where she is an executive committee member of the UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention and the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights.

Alexander Laban Hinton is an anthropologist whose work focuses on genocide, mass violence, extremism, transitional justice, and human rights. He has written extensively on the Cambodian genocide and, in 2016, was an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. He has authored many books including, most recently, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US and Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. As of 2023, he is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Holocaust education</span> Efforts to educate populace on the Holocaust

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Gregory S. Gordon is an American scholar of international law and a former genocide prosecutor during the Media Case at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Gordon is known for his advocacy of the criminalization under international law of a broader category of speech likely to cause mass atrocities, and his book Atrocity Speech Law in which he advances this argument.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Genocides in history</span> Overview of genocide in a historical context

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) of 1948 as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group's conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Allegations of genocide of Ukrainians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine</span>

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, national parliaments including those of Poland, Ukraine, Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ireland declared that genocide was taking place. Scholars and commentators including Eugene Finkel, Timothy D. Snyder and Gregory Stanton; and legal experts such as Otto Luchterhandt and Zakhar Tropin, have made claims of varying degrees of certainty that Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine. A comprehensive report by the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights concluded that there exists a "very serious risk of genocide" in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

This is a select annotated bibliography of scholarly English language books and journal articles about the subject of genocide studies; for bibliographies of genocidal acts or events, please see the See also section for individual articles. A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included for items related to the development of genocide studies. Book entries may have references to journal articles and reviews as annotations. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further Reading for several book and chapter-length bibliographies. The External links section contains entries for publicly available materials on the development of genocide studies.

References

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  2. ↑ "Alex Hinton". Rutgers SASN. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Nela Navarro". Archived from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  4. ↑ "CGHR Projects". Archived from the original on January 23, 2022. Retrieved June 21, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ↑ "Global Consortium". Rutgers Global. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Rutgers-Newark Embraces Genocide Awareness Month". Observer. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Conference on 'Forgotten Genocides' to Be Held at Rutgers". Armenian Weekly. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Forgotten Rutgers Prof Who Coined 'Genocide' Now Getting His Due". NJ.com. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Genocide Prevention and Engaged Scholarship". University World News. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  10. ↑ "United Nations, Rutgers University and Documentation Center of Cambodia Discuss Justice for Victims of Khmer Rouge, 11 October". United Nations. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Saffron Revolution Talk at Rutgers". Tricycle. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  12. ↑ "CGHR book series". RUP Press. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  13. ↑ "Rutgers Humanist". Rutgers Global. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  14. ↑ "It Can Happen Here". NYU Press. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Rethinking Peace". RW Press. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  16. ↑ "Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America". Duke University Press. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  17. ↑ "Genocide and Mass Violence". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  18. ↑ "Hidden Genocides". Rutgers University Press. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  19. ↑ "The Anthropology of Extinction". Indiana University Press. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  20. ↑ "Night of the Khmer Rouge". Paul Robeson Gallery. Retrieved June 24, 2022.[ permanent dead link ]
  21. ↑ "Education for Peace". Peacelearner. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
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