2018 Global Raphael Lemkin Seminar Reading Materials
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_Seminar participants are **strongly urged** to read the following materials before their arrival in Poland. This will allow participants to take full advantage of the opportunities presented throughout the course._ Please download the full agenda of the seminar before beginning the readings. This will provide a framework for preparation. (full agenda) A collection of "teaching takeaways" from the seminar can be downloaded full agenda. Short bios of participants, instructors, and staff can be downloaded full agenda.
### Monday, November 12 - Introductions and Context - \full agenda] \full agenda]
**Introduction to the Concepts of Genocide, Atrocity Crimes, and Prevention**
James Waller, “Transcending Fratricide: The Politics of Naming” from Srda Pavlovic and Marko Zivkovic (eds.), Transcending Fratricide: Political Mythologies, Reconciliations, and the Uncertain Future in the Former Yugoslavia (Germany: Nomos, 2013), pp. 31-49
UN Genocide Convention (1951)
**The Holocaust: The Rise of Nazism (1933-1939)**
“Historical Overview” from Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 3-9
**Guided Study Visit of Auschwitz I**
“Auschwitz” from Adrian Weale’s Army of Evil: A History of the SS (New York: Penguin, 2010), pp. 366-397
### Tuesday, November 13 – Process and Place - \full agenda] \full agenda]
**The Holocaust: The Final Solution as Process (1939-1945)**
“Historical Overview” from Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 9-41
**Between Memory, Commemoration and the Authentic Site: Auschwitz as a Reference Point for Contemporary Societies**
Selections from The Holocaust: Voices of Scholars, edited by Jolanta Ambrosewic-Jacobs (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009)
**Guided Study Visit of Auschwitz II-Birkenau** Selection from Primo Levi’s _If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)_, translated by Stuart Woolf (1959), pp. 19-27 **Informal Group Debriefing of Auschwitz Experience** Orlando Crowcroft, “Did Poland Take Part in the Holocaust? New Claims Contradict Law That Makes It Illegal to Blame the Country,” _Newsweek_ (April 26, 2018).
### Wednesday, November 14 - Upstream Prevention: Frameworks for Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention - \full agenda]
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**Early-Warning and Opportunities for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Atrocity Crimes** “UN Office Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes” (2014)
**The Responsibility to Protect: Recent Developments and Emerging Trends**
International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, _A Toolkit on the Responsibility to Protect_, “Part I: Understanding the Responsibility to Protect,” pp. 5-33
**The Role of National Mechanisms in Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention** _National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes: Effective and Sustainable Prevention Begins at Home_ (AIPR, 2015), pp. 2-3, 5-11 _National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Atrocity Crimes: Integration Into the State Architecture for Prevention_ (AIPR, 2018) pp. 5-22
### Thursday, November 15 – Midstream Prevention: Responding to Genocide, War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing, and Crimes Against Humanity - \full agenda] \full agenda]
**Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Atrocity** James Waller, “The Ordinariness of Extraordinary Evil: The Making of Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Killing” from Olaf Jensen and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (eds.) _Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspective_ (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 145-164 Excerpt from Jean Hatzfeld’s _Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak_ (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), pp. 21-27, 36-40 **Crisis Spot: Burma** ALTSEAN Burma Bulletin (July 2018) ALTSEAN Burma, “Dodging Accountability and Whitewashing Crimes: Time for Burma/Myanmar International Investigation Mechanism” (August 23, 2018)
### Friday, November 16 – Downstream Prevention: Transitional Justice and Dealing with the Past - \full agenda] \full agenda]
**Introduction to Transitional Justice from an Atrocity Prevention Perspective**
Clara Sandoval Villalba, "Transitional Justice, Key Concepts, Processes and Challenges, Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution" (July, 2011) “The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies” UNSC S/2011/634 (12 October, 2011) **The Role of Retributive Justice in Atrocity Prevention** Nick Grono and Anna de Courcy Wheeler, “The Deterrent Effect of the ICC on the Commission of International Crimes by Government Leaders”, in Stahn, C. (ed.) _The Law and Practice of the ICC_ (2015), pp. 1225-1244.
**Trauma and Mental Health Legacies of Conflict**
“The Scale of Conflict-Related Trauma in Northern Ireland” (2018).
**The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Transitional Justice**
Kerry Whigham, “Remembering to Prevent: The Preventive Capacity of Public Memory,” _Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal_ (2017), pp. 53-71.
### Saturday, November 17 – Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention in Action - \full agenda]
**Capstone Simulation: Early Warning Assessment of Current At-Risk Area**
“Bosnia-Herzegovina Simulation Briefing”
