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Posted in Genocide Awareness Lecture on Oct 29th, 2008
Question from the audience:
Prof. Bloxham spoke of particular problems that can be identified prior to a turn to homicidal genocide. Can you speak to moments or ways to ‘catch’ a genocide before it reaches its full potential, or even before it becomes genocide–either historically looking at cases that were caught and avoided in process, or [...]
Posted in Genocide Awareness Lecture on Oct 29th, 2008
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To what degree do you see contextual factors at work in the U.S. occupation of Iraq that has led to wanton killing of the civilian population?
Posted in Genocide Awareness Lecture on Oct 29th, 2008
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How does the increasing population increase the violence? Would you consider the crusade movement in Jerusalem to be genocide?
Posted in Genocide Awareness Lecture on Oct 29th, 2008
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How can we reconcile contrasts and comparisons between the Holocaust and other genocides?
Posted in Genocide Awareness Lecture on Oct 29th, 2008
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How do we go about healing a genocidal world? How should we deal with the Armenian genocide? What should the international community do to preserve its memory?
Posted in Genocide Awareness Lecture on Oct 29th, 2008
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Is the study of genocide bolstered or hampered by the ethno-religious attachments of the individuals who would study genocides? That is, do particular nationalistic affiliations render genocide studies hopelessly subjective? Does scholarly rigor and political effectiveness require a kind of universalistic detachment from ethno-religious affiliation?
Posted in Genocide Awareness Lecture on Oct 29th, 2008
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Thinking about genocides not as “volcanic” episodes, but as “landscapes”: What are the conditions that characterize colonial societies? Within such societies, what conditions give rise to the ethnic violence that commands popular attention? In nations such as Rwanda–nations wracked by racist colonization–how is the “landscape” distorted such that the Hutus could develop [...]
Posted in Genocide Awareness Lecture on Oct 29th, 2008
Question from the audience:
What steps can we take toward a new definition or a new way to intervene with genocide?
Posted in Genocide Awareness Lecture on Oct 29th, 2008
Question from the audience:
Prof. Bloxham stated that the Holocaust has become “the model of genocide.” In that same vein, would he maybe consider that the Holocaust is used as a crutch when people look at genocides today?
Posted in Genocide Awareness Lecture on Oct 29th, 2008
Question from the audience:
Prof. Bloxham’s criticism of legal conceptualizations of genocide (Narrow definitions; crude typeologies; impoverished bi-polar analysis, etc.) were well taken. But is not some technical form of conceptualization necessary before states can take action? The talk of “Response-Based Conceptualizations” aside, how can we proceed without working models of definition at the outset of [...]