Methodological considerations in teaching about

genocide.

Define the term“genocide.”

Raphael Lemkin at Duke University.Date unknown

Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo at a press conference regarding Darfur, Sudan. February 27, 2007

Photo by Reuters/Jerry Lampen

Investigate the context and dynamics that have

led to genocide.

The largest religious complex in the world, Cambodia's Angkor Wat is the jewel in the vast Angkor archaeological site.

August, 2007Photo from National Geographic News.

The 1984 Winter Olympics were held at Sarajevo, at the time a prosperous, multiethnic city and the capital of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Photo by Lester Sloan/Woodfin Camp and Associates, Inc

Be wary of simplistic

parallels to other

genocides.

Jewish women liberated from a factory in Mehlteuer display their tattoos. July 7, 1945

A Bosnian refugee from Srebrenica wails over her missing husband in the refugee camp at the Tuzla airport. Up to 17,000 refugees gathered around the UN Airport base in Tuzla after fleeing

the Bosnian Serbs who overran the UN safe haven of Srebrenica three day earlier.July 14, 1995

Reuters.

Analyze American and world response.

General Romeo Dallaire, head of the UN forces in Rwanda, 1994.CBC News

Hasan Nuhanovic regards the “secret” point of entry in the fence surrounding the former UN Safe Haven at Potacari, Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

July, 2011 Photo by Kate Weckesser English

Illustrate positive actions taken by individuals and

nations in the face of genocide.

Hatidza Mehnejovic, President of Mothers of Srebrenica.July, 2011

Photo by Kate Weckesser English

A young girl in Morogoro, Tanzania attends a “play date” organized by a US Peace Corps volunteer.

October, 2006.Photo by Courtney Siegfried

A detail of the "You Are My Witnesses" wall in the Hall of Witness at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.