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    Zoryan Institute's genocide program scheduled for August

    March 2, 2013 - 11:02 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - The International Institute for Genocide and Human
    Rights Studies, a division of the Zoryan Institute (IIGHRS) has
    announced that the Genocide and Human Right University Program
    (GHRUP), now in its twelfth year, will take place in Toronto August
    5-16, 2013.
    This year the Institute welcomes a new faculty member, Prof. David
    MacDonald, who will teach the unit on `The Genocide of Indigenous
    Peoples,' referring primarily to the native peoples of North and South
    America.
    George Shirinian, Executive Director of the Institute, noted that `The
    field of Genocide and Human Rights Studies is vast, and it is not
    possible to cover every case of genocide in the time available.
    Therefore, we do rotate some of the subjects, and I am pleased that we
    will be examining the experience of the Native Peoples in this regard.
    Many people feel that it is a current and ongoing case of genocide.'
    Prof. MacDonald has outlined the subject in the following way.
    `Indigenous peoples, also known as `Aboriginal Peoples,' `First
    Nations,' `Native Peoples,' and collectively as the `Fourth World,'
    have faced cultural destruction, forced removal from ancestral lands,
    deliberate killing, theft of children, and genocide, for centuries.
    This unit examines the genocidal experiences of selected indigenous
    peoples of both North and South America, with particular reference to
    the impact and ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. In addition to
    case studies, definitions of genocide and the usefulness of the UN
    Genocide Convention to indigenous peoples will also be discussed.'
    David B. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Political Science and
    chair of his department's graduate program at the University of
    Guelph. He has a PhD in International Relations from the London School
    of Economics, and has held faculty positions (as a tenured Senior
    Lecturer) at the University of Otago, New Zealand (2002-7), and at the
    ESCP Graduate School of Management Paris (1999-2002). He is the author
    of three books on genocide. He is also involved with Canada's Truth
    and Reconciliation Commission, and has contributed work on the
    question of genocide in the Indian Residential School system.
    Now counting over 300 graduates from at least 20 different countries,
    the GHRUP strives to achieve multiple goals: to encourage the
    development of a new generation of young scholars to take up the study
    of genocide professionally at an advanced level; to illuminate the
    causes of genocide, the way it takes place, and its devastating
    impact; to bring a measure of healing and relief to various
    communities through the sharing of great trauma of many peoples; to
    study and teach in an interdisciplinary manner; to employ a
    comparative perspective in examining cases of genocide, such as the
    Jewish Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Darfur, with the
    Armenian Genocide as a point of reference as the prototype of modern
    genocide; and to use this comparative approach to identify the
    characteristics of genocide so that it becomes predictable and in turn
    hopefully preventable.

    - See more at: http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/148251/#sthash.njzQTpeL.dpuf


    From: Baghdasarian
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