2017 Global Raphael Lemkin Seminar Reading Materials
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_Seminar participants are **strongly urged** to read the following materials before their arrival in Poland. This will allow participants to take full advantage of the opportunities presented throughout the course._ Please download the full agenda of the seminar before beginning the readings. This will provide a framework for preparation. (full agenda) A Flickr photo album from the seminar can be found [here](https://www.flickr.com/gp/137131049@N05/1k0Nj1).
### Monday, November 13 - Introductions and Context - \full agenda] \full agenda]
**Introduction to the Concepts of Genocide, Atrocity Crimes, and Prevention**
James Waller, “Transcending Fratricide: The Politics of Naming” from Srda Pavlovic and Marko Zivkovic (eds.), Transcending Fratricide: Political Mythologies, Reconciliations, and the Uncertain Future in the Former Yugoslavia (Germany: Nomos, 2013), pp. 31-49
UN Genocide Convention (1951)
**The Holocaust: The Rise of Nazism (1933-1939)**
“Historical Overview” from Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 3-9
**Guided Study Visit of Auschwitz I**
“Auschwitz” from Adrian Weale’s Army of Evil: A History of the SS (New York: Penguin, 2010), pp. 366-397
### Tuesday, November 14 – Process and Place - \full agenda] \full agenda]
**The Holocaust: The Final Solution as Process (1939-1945)**
“Historical Overview” from Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 9-41
**Between Memory, Commemoration and the Authentic Site: Auschwitz as a Reference Point for Contemporary Societies**
Selections from The Holocaust: Voices of Scholars, edited by Jolanta Ambrosewic-Jacobs (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009)
**Guided Study Visit of Auschwitz II-Birkenau**
**Informal Group Debriefing of Auschwitz Experience**
Selection from Primo Levi’s _If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)_, translated by Stuart Woolf (1959), pp. 19-27
### Wednesday, November 15 - Upstream Prevention: Frameworks for Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention - \full agenda] \full agenda] \full agenda]
**Introducing Upstream Prevention Strategies: Risk Factors for Genocide and Atrocity Crimes**
**Early-Warning and Opportunities for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Atrocity Crimes** “UN Office Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes” (2014)
**The Responsibility to Protect: Recent Developments and Emerging Trends**
Report of the Secretary General – Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: Accountability for Prevention (A/71/1016-S2017/556)
**Policy Options for the Prevention of Genocide & Other Atrocity Crimes**
“Responsibility to Protect: State Responsibility and Prevention,” UN Doc A/67/929-S/2013/399 (9 July, 2013) **The Role of National Mechanisms in Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention** National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes: Effective and Sustainable Prevention Begins at Home (AIPR, 2015), pp. 2-3, 5-11, 14 -15 & 17-18 National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes: Durable Solutions to Challenges in Effective Prevention (AIPR, 2016), pp. 6-9, 11-19 & 22-26.
### Thursday, November 16 – Midstream Prevention: Responding to Genocide, War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing, and Crimes Against Humanity - \full agenda] \full agenda]
**Introducing Midstream Prevention Strategies: Accelerants, Triggers, and the Early Warning-Early Response Gap**
**Exercise: The Role of Identity in Genocide and Mass Atrocity**
**Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Atrocity** James Waller, “The Ordinariness of Extraordinary Evil: The Making of Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Killing” from Olaf Jensen and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (eds.) _Ordinary People as Mass Murderers: Perpetrators in Comparative Perspective_ (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 145-164 Excerpt from Jean Hatzfeld’s Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), pp. 21-27, 36-40 **Response Tools for Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention** **Crisis Spot: Burma** Burma Situation Overview (October 2017) NLD Military Operations Overview, 2016-2017 (April 2017)
**Opportunities for Preventive Action - Network Mapping Exercise Outcomes**
### Friday, November 17 – Downstream Prevention: Transitional Justice and Dealing with the Past - \full agenda] \full agenda]
**Introducing Downstream Prevention Strategies: Justice, Truth, and Memory**
**Introduction to Transitional Justice from an Atrocity Prevention Perspective**
Clara Sandoval Villalba, "Transitional Justice, Key Concepts, Processes and Challenges, Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution" (July, 2011) “The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies” UNSC S/2011/634 (12 October, 2011) **Case Study: Colombia: Transitional Justice in a Protracted War**
Rodrigo Uprimmy and Nelson Sánchez “Transitional Justice in Conflict: Reflections on the Colombian Experience” from Roger Duthie and Paul Seils (eds.), Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies (2017).
**Women as Partners in Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention**
**The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Transitional Justice**
Louis Bickford, “Memoryworks/Memory Works,” from Clara Ramierz-Barat (ed.), _Transitional Justice, Culture, and Society: Beyond Outreach_ (2014).
### Saturday, November 18 – Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention in Action - \full agenda]
**Capstone Simulation: Early Warning Assessment of Current At-Risk Area**
“Rwanda Simulation Briefing”
