Description
This course engages students in the conceptual and legal frameworks of genocide, and then applies those frameworks to historical case studies across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Students will learn and be able to articulate how nation-states create the conditions for genocide, recruit the participation (or active indifference) of their constituents in its perpetuation, and how post-genocide societies and survivors address the generational trauma and memory of these events.