COMPARATIVE GENOCIDE SITES
The mission of the Salzburg Global Seminar is to challenge present and future leaders to solve issues of global concern.
The Salzburg Global Seminar convenes imaginative thinkers from different cultures and institutions, organizes problem-focused initiatives, supports leadership development, and engages opinion-makers through active communication networks, all in partnership with leading institutions from around the world and across different sectors of society.
The Salzburg Global Seminar seeks to magnify the impact of individuals and institutions that bring just and humane values to bear on the global challenges facing their societies and the world. The Salzburg Global Seminar is an independent, non-governmental organization with a Board of Directors drawn from diverse regions, backgrounds and fields of expertise. It seeks in its faculty, fellows and staff people of the highest intellectual and leadership capacity from around the world and from all sectors of society, and attempts to benefit from their breadth of experience and perspective across the full range of its work.
Salzbur Global Seminar
The New Tactics in Human Rights Project, led by a diverse group of partner international organizations, advisors and practitioners, promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community. Strategic and tactical thinking, long used by business and military strategists, is an effective means for the human rights movement to expand options and possibilities of what can be done. Innovative tactics are emerging that may more effectively advance human rights and end persistent human rights problems. Many innovations have been valuable, yet are not well known outside their regions.
New Tactics in Human Rights
The Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Site includes a list of publications, including a quarterly newsletter, the International Network on Holocaust and Genocide, as well as a list of comparative genocide bibliographies. Built on the foundations laid by the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies, the Institute continues to be a leader in teaching, research and education within the field of Holocaust and genocide studies. A new section on the Pontian genocide is particularly interesting.
Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War: Established by R.J. Rummel, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawaii, this site includes data, sources, statistical analyses, books, and articles. The data covers episodes of democide throughout history up to 1987.
Freedom, Democide, War: Home Page
Gendercide Watch: Confronting gender-selective atrocities and mass killing worldwide, with detailed case studies of gendercide.
Gendercide Watch
Genocide Watch: Genocide Watch seeks to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder by raising awareness and influencing public policy concerning potential and actual genocide. Its purpose is to build an international movement to prevent and stop genocide. This site presents useful updates on new atrocity crimes as they are unfolding. Its section on Opinion and Commentary contains clippings from major news sources. Useful links to upcoming conferences are found on the Meetings page.
Genocide Watch
Institute for the Study of Genocide (ISG) / International Association of Genocide Scholars (AGS): includes links to the ISG newsletter, a list of definitions of genocide, upcoming conferences, papers from the 1999 AGS conference, as well as books available from the IGS and AGS.
ISG & IAGS -- Institute for the Study of Genocide, International Association of Genocide Scholars
The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence provides chronological indexes, case studies, analytical contributions on socio-political violence in a given country, a glossary of the terms most often used in genocide studies as well as theoretical papers written by the most representative authors in the field. Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
"Making Peace": From Mass Crime to Peacebuilding - A Trans-disciplinary Approach. How can peace building proceed in the aftermath of mass crime? Posing this question, the group, established by Béatrice Pouligny and Jacques Sémelin, proposes to bridge the gaps between disciplines in order to establish research teams and develop methods allowing for the empirical development of the historical, social and political sociology of the subject. Site is available in English and French.
Re-imaging Peace after Massacres
Prevent Genocide International: Prevent Genocide International, founded in 1998, is a global, Internet-based network of activists working to prevent the crime of genocide. Includes Genocide law in the criminal codes of 12 nations and the Genocide Convention in seven languages.The website is available in English, French, German and Spanish.
Prevent Genocide International
The University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies was established within the College of Liberal Arts and is an independent center with its main administrative relationship with the Department of History. Rich in visual resources, teachers resources and comprising of relevant documents on the Armenian Genocide, Afro-Americans, Darfur, the Holocaust, Native Americans and much more.
The University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Web Genocide Documentation Center: While not updated since about 2003, contains a variety of important materials on different cases. Best accessed by clicking on (details) at the home page and opening the side menu.
Web Genocide Documentation Center
Yale Center for International and Area Studies: Genocide Studies Program
Yale Genocide Studies Program
