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January 18, 2023

2018 National Seminar for Law Enforcement on Promoting and Protecting Civil and Human Rights

Thank you for attending the 2018 National Seminar for Law Enforcement on Promoting and Protecting Civil and Human Rights! In addition to the seminar readings, links to download a digital copy of the event program, instructor presentations, and the group photo can be found below. Event Program Event Program (password: humanrights) Event Program (password: humanrights) Event Program ### Thursday, April 12 **The Role of Promoting and Protecting Civil and Human Rights in Deeply Divided Societies** Instructor: Dr. James Waller, AIPR/KSC Reading: "Social Identity as a Source of Violent or Genocidal Conflict,” from James Waller, Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide (Oxford, 2016), pp. 139-151." **Guided Tour of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights** Guides: Mr. Allen Lee and Mr. Theodore Ward, National Center Reading: National Center for Civil and Human Rights Exhibits Informational Brochure **Lunch Break and Debriefing of Museum Experience** Facilitators: Mr. Allen Lee, Senior Public Programs and Education Manager, National Center and Dr. James Waller, AIPR/KSC **Promoting and Protecting Civil and Human Rights in Post-Atrocity Refugee and Immigrant Communities** Instructors: Dr. James Waller (AIPR/KSC), Ms. Aimee Richardson- Zadra, Supervisory Special Agent, International Human Rights Unit, FBI, and Ms. Lisa Koven, Human Rights Law Section, Human Rights Violators & War Crimes Center, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) **Becoming Evil: The Psychology of How Ordinary People Commit Atrocities** Instructor: Dr. James Waller, AIPR/KSC Readings: (a) 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, and (b) excerpt from Jean Hatzfeld’s _Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak_ (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), pp. 21-27, 36-40 ### Friday, April 13 **Keynote Address: Policing in Multicultural Communities: Instilling Values for the Promotion and Protection of Civil and Human Rights** Speaker: Dr. Cedric L. Alexander, Deputy Mayor, City of Rochester, NY Readings: (a) Cedric L. Alexander, “Community Policing as a Counter to Bias in Policing: A Personal Perspective”, 126 Yale L.J. F. 381 (2017) and (b) Executive Summary from the Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing (May, 2015) **Unpacking Implicit Bias in Policing** Instructor: Dr. Bryant T. Marks, Founder & Principal Trainer, National Training Institute on Race and Equity; Psychology Professor, Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA) **FBI Civil Rights Unit: Federal Color of Law Investigations** Instructors: Mr. Ramon Johnson, Supervisory Special Agent, Civil Rights Unit, FBI and Mr. Brent A. Gray, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Georgia, U.S. Department of Justice
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Policy Papers and Briefs in Prevention

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Research Reports & White Papers

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Beyond Remembering Toolkits

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SNCF Papers

Filling the Silence: A Study in Corporate Holocaust History and the Nature of Corporate Memory
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Auschwitz Institute Annual Reports

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Training Resources

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Booklet on National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes (2015-2018)

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Annual Reports of the Latin American Network for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

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