Genocide Resources
According to the International Association of Genocide Scholars, "In the 20th century, genocides and state mass murder have killed more people than have all wars." Despite the international convention for the prevention and punishment of genocide and the tireless work of activists, mass violence continues and too often the perpetrators go unpunished.
As students study these specific events, it is important to help them think about how universal aspects of human behavior, such as prejudice, stereotyping, and conformity, contribute to the proliferation of violence and about how the decisions made by groups and individuals have the power to stop, prevent, or intensify acts of genocide.
Genocide (general)
- Totally Unofficial: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention
- Totally Unofficial Lesson Plans
- Lost Childhoods
Holocaust
- Holocaust and Human Behavior Resource Book
- Elements of Time Resource Book
- Finding a Voice: Musicians in Terezin Study Guide
- I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People During the Holocaust Study Guide
- Nuremberg Remembered Documentary: A series of three lessons
- Schindler's List Study Guide
- I Promised I Would Tell Resource Book
- Night Study Guide
- The Jews of Poland Resource Book
Justice After Genocide
Related Resource Pages
Related Articles and Websites
- UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
- On Our Watch (PBS, Frontline)
- "The 8 Stages of Genocide," (Genocide Watch)
- "Genocide Prevention: 60 Years of Abject Failure," by Eric Reeves (The Christian Science Monitor, January 20, 2008)
- "Make Sudan an Offer It Can't Refuse," by Marc Helprin (The New York Times, March 25, 2008)
- "Lessons from Rwanda," (The United Nations and the Prevention of Genocide)
- "The Responsibility to Protect," by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Opening of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, February 14, 2008)
- Genocide Intervention Network
