February 26

DECONSTRUCTING PREVENTION CONFERENCE AT CARDOZO LAW SCHOOL

The Cardozo Law Program in Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies in an important conference held at Cardozo Law School on Tuesday February 26 from 9 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. on: Deconstructing Prevention: The Theory, Policy and Practice of Mass Atrocity Prevention

This conference is free and open to the public, but please RSVP to to reserve a seat.

Full details here

October 29, 2012

THE LEMKIN AWARD 2012

The ISG's Lemkin Award honors Raphael Lemkin, the originator of the concept of genocide and first exponent of a United Nations Genocide Convention. The biennial award recognizes the best non-fiction book published in English or translated into English that focuses on explanations of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, state mass killings and gross violations of human rights, and strategies to prevent such crimes and violations.

For the 2013 award cycle, we are now accepting nominations for books published in the 2012 calendar year (January 1st - December 31st, 2012).

NOMINATIONS ARE DUE DECEMBER 31, 2012.

Full details here

Ocober 2, 2012

THE GENOCIDE SCHOLARS LETTER WAS SUBMITTED TO AND PRINTED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-THANK YOU, ALL!!!!!

HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE IN SUDAN -- (Senate - September 20, 2012)

Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I rise today to highlight the following letter written by over 60 genocide scholars, including Dr. Samuel Totten of the University of Arkansas. Their letter urges the Obama administration to do more to end the humanitarian catastrophe occurring in South Kordofan and Blue Nile States of Sudan.

Last summer I joined a group of bipartisan Senators in making a similar request of the administration. Unfortunately, humanitarian aid to South Kordofan and Blue Nile continues to be severely limited and the violence has not ceased.

I applaud the authors of this letter for their continued advocacy to ensure that another genocide does not occur in Sudan, and I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record.

Full letter available here

August 27, 2012

HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE IN SOUTH KORDOFAN AND BLUE NILE STATES OF SUDAN

NUBA MOUNTAINS PETITION

Dear President Obama, Secretary of State  Clinton, Ambassador Rice and Special Assistant Power:

On June 6, 2011, the Sudanese regime, led by indicted war criminal Omar al-Bashir, unleashed a wave of targeted ethnic killings against the people of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state, Sudan. Since then this state-sponsored violence has spread to engulf much of South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.

The continuing multiple atrocities amount to at least crimes against humanity. This, in and of itself, is alarming. According to the tenets of the Responsibility to Protect now is the time to protect the targeted population...

Full letter available here

June 28, 2012

"THE ONGOING HUMAN RIGHTS TRAGEDY OCCURRING IN NORTH KOREA" by Robert Park

On April 23rd in commemoration of Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Days of Remembrance, President Obama announced the creation of a U.S. Atrocities Prevention Board at the Holocaust Memorial Museum inWashingtonD.C.; ostensibly intended to assist the government in preventing and responding to genocide and mass atrocities. PSD-10, the 2011 Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities, which resulted in the creation of this board, states, “Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States.”In North Korea, mass atrocities tantamount to genocide and crimes against humanity are currently taking place, and scholarship documenting the DPRK’s unrestrained inhumanity continues to mount. This year an account written by journalist Blaine Harden about one of my personal heroes, Mr. Shin Dong-hyuk, the only known escapee from a lifetime imprisonment North Korean concentration camp, has generated a resurgence of interest.

Full article available here

June 28, 2012

MILTON LEITENBERG'S RESPONSE TO ROBERT PARK

Full article available here

June 14, 2012

PETITION TO THE ATROCITIES PREVENTION BOARD

Full letter available here

June 22, 2012

GENOCIDE EMERGENCY - MYANMAR: THE ROHINGYA

Full details available here

June 14, 2012

PETITION TO THE ATROCITIES PREVENTION BOARD

Full letter available here

June 14, 2012

UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM STATEMENT ON VIOLENCE IN SYRIA

Full details available here

June 8, 2012

GENOCIDE WATCH HAS ISSUED A GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES EMERGENCY ALERT FOR SYRIA AFTER THE GENOCIDAL MASSACRES BY ALAWITE MITIAS BACKED BY SYRIAN ARMY UNITS IN SUNNI MUSLIM VILLAGES

Full details available here

May3, 2012- NOW ONLINE: The ISG Newsletter, #47, Spring 2012

• NORTH KOREAN GENOCIDE, NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND FOOD ASSISTANCE by Milton Leitenberg
• Invitation to Readers
• NEW ISSUE GENOCIDE PREVENTION NOW by Israel Charny
• THE LEMKIN AWARD
• IN FAVOR OF THE PROPOSED FRENCH LEGISLATION AGAINST ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL by Roger Smith
• DENIAL OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CONTINUES by Helen Fein
• MISLABELLING AND DEMEANING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE by Marc A. Mamigonian
• CHECHNYA AND THE WAR ON TERROR: COMMENTS ON GILLIGAN’S BOOK by Helen Fein
• Publications Available
• How to Join ISG

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Applications due: January 15, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS: Second annual workshop “Resisting the Path to Genocide”:

International conference at the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, September 6-8, 2012

Full details available here

October 30, 2011- NOW ONLINE: The ISG Newsletter, #46, Fall 2011

• November 3rd lemin Award Ceremony
• "A Troubled Trial for Khmer rouge Perpetrators" by Elena Lesley
• Conference Reports:
• "ISG Workshop at Notre Dame" by Ernesto Verdeja
• "IAGS Conference in Argentina" by Joyce Apsel
• "North Korea and the Genocide Movement" by Roert Park
• "Risk Assessments for 2012" by Barbara Harff
• "Understanding Somalia" by Ted Gurr
• "Acquiescence before Mass Human Destruction in Sudan's Border Regions" by eric Reeves
• Publications Available
• How to Join ISG

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July 11, 2011

US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM COMMITTEE ON CONSCIENCE EVALUATES RISK OF GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AS SOUTH SUDAN DECLARES INDEPENDENCE

Today, Sudan includes the 15 states that were formerly known as northern Sudan, notably including the capital area around Khartoum, the conflict-ridden western region of Darfur, and newly violent Southern Kordofan. Previously, Sudan also included a southern region, against which it waged war for decades. The north-south conflict ended through negotiations in 2005, and the Republic of South Sudan formally declared its independence on July 9, 2011.

The Museum’s concern for Sudan today stems from:

• The Sudanese government’s established capacity and willingness to resort to violence against civilians in order to pursue its agenda. This violence has included genocide and related crimes against humanity, as evidenced by actions the government has taken against entire ethnic groups in the western region of Darfur, the Nuba Mountains, and the South.
• On-going conflict, massive displacement, and human rights abuses in the Darfur region, disputed Abyei area, and Southern Kordofan.
• Uncertainty and instability generated by current political changes, specifically the independence of South Sudan, but also the marginalization of minority groups and opposition parties in the north.
• History of inter-group tensions and presence of armed forces associated with ethnic groups.

Full details here

June 10, 2011

GENOCIDE WATCH FOR THE NUBA MOUNTAINS IN SUDAN (Source: Genocide Watch, June 10, 2011)

Due to confirmed reports of a military buildup and atrocities by the Sudanese Army in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Watch for the area. The people of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordafan again face genocide by the Government of Sudan.

Full details here

June 7, 2011

GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITY WARNING: SYRIA (Genocide Watch, June 7, 2011)

Since the beginning of March, the stability of the Syrian Arab Republic has degenerated at an alarming rate. Genocide Watch warns that there is an imminent threat of genocidal massacres and mass atrocities against protesters committed by Alawite troops and police loyal to the Assad government.

Full details here

January 3, 2011- NOW ONLINE: The ISG Newsletter, #45, Winter 2010.

• Warnings Re: Sudan and Iran
• "On Islamic Extremism" by Yehuda Bauer
• "Deportation of Roma Stirs Protest" by Jeannette Smyth
• "Sexual Violence and Genocide in the DRC" by Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey
• "The Future of Dayton's Bosnia" by Sheri Rosenberg
• Letters Re: Denial of Genocide
• Publications Available
• How to Join ISG

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January 3, 2011

THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE NEWSLETTER OF THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GENOCIDE (No. 45, Winter 2010) is being sent via e-mail instead of via U.S. mail.

Please send us your preferred email address if you have not already done so, if you would like to receive future copies via email. Send your email request to: feinhelen@comcast.net

JULY 26, 2010

RESPONDING TO AL BASHIR'S GENOCIDE CHARGES, Referendum Reports

The International Criminal Court issued a second arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al Bashir on three counts of genocide on Monday, July 12th. Please encourage your constituents to act by alerting them to call Secretary Clinton at 1-800-Genocide or send a message to President Obama and Secretary Clinton.

Full details here on this action alert, and latest developments from the Save Darfur Coalition

APRIL 29, 2010

GRADING THE BENCHMARKS IN SUDAN: How Sudan is Backsliding on Benchmarks Crucial to Peace

Full details here

February 27, 2010

DARFUR REBELS, SUDANESE GOVERNMENT SIGN PRELIMINARY DEAL

Sudan’s government has signed a deal with the leading rebel group in Darfur, the Justice and Equality Movement – a breakthrough after many months of stalled negotiations. While the news is certainly promising, a remark from the sidelines of peace talks underway in Doha seemed to capture the mood of cautious optimism: “This is not the end,” said Al-Tahir al-Feki, a rebel official. “It is the beginning of the end.” Full article here

January 9, 2009

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES

We are genocide scholars gravely concerned about signs of genocide and political murder in Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe, through discrimination and terror, has created an economic catastrophe. State-created hyper-inflation has caused famine, though not for Mugabe's partisans. Now cholera is sweeping a country that lacks medicines...

Full text of this letter here.