Conferences and Training Program
2014 Professional training Program on the Prevention of Mass Atrocities
June 18-20 2014
On June 18-20, the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies organized a three-day profesional training program on the prevention of mass atrocities. Registration is now open.
Plundered Cultures, Stolen Heritage - A Conference on the Targeting of Culture during Mass Atrocities - November 6-7, 2013
The very existence of national groups—their history, their memory and their future—rests on their members right to life, but scholars sometimes pay too little attention to assaults on the cultural identities of such groups which often precede physical attacks.
“Plundered Cultures, Stolen Heritage”— Concordia University’s contribution to Canada’s year of Holocaust Remembrance leadership— began the task of filling that gap and integrating our knowledge. Leading experts on the experiences of cultural destruction and mass atrocities suffered by the First Nations, Armenian and Jewish peoples assembled to discuss the motives of the perpetrators of these assaults, their impact, and the significance these attacks pose for restitution and reconciliation today.
Visit "Plundered Cultures, Stolen Heritage" to see the program and watch the keynote speech and panel discussions of the conference.
Professional Training program on the Prevention of Mass atrocities -
June 11-13 2013
On June 11-13 2013, the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies organized a three-day profesional training program on the prevention of mass atrocities. For this special training program, MIGS brought together a great team of experts on mass atrocity prevention. Find out more about this initiative one the conference web page.
The Promise of Media in Halting Mass Atrocities: A Conference to Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
October 20 and 21, 2011
MIGS convened a conference to aid the media to fulfill its promise in halting mass atrocities and to help us achieve the goals of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
Some of the world's foremost experts on the role of media in preventing mass atrocities brought their latest insights to the conference. Visit the conference website to find out more about the panels and speakers.
