William Patterson, a leader of the U.S. Civil Rights Congress, in the petition titled "We Charge Genocide" submitted to the United Nations General Assembly in 1951, argued that the crimes committed by the U.S. government against Black Americans constituted crimes of genocide as defined in the...
Prof. Bachman studies genocide, political violence, and human rights, and Prof. Kitamura has done work on human rights protections. Studying under the supervision of these professors will offer me the chance to delve deeper into specific regional issues. The degree awarded by this program will off...
But let’s take the clearest example of all: If it is always up to the victimized group to define what counts as bigotry against it, then what about Palestinians? I surmise that they believe the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza, and that therefore anyone saying “I stand w...
than ours. Private ownership of land or other assets is one of those naturalized economic rights that seems to have always been true. But, of course, it wasn’t. The invention of private property has been used to justify genocide, environmental degradation, and exploitation for over 500 years...
Morrison spoke of how othering could manifest as the impulse “to own, govern, and administrate,” which, in turn, could fuel the flames of colonialism, and enable slavery, genocide, apartheid, political demagoguery, wagediscrimination, and militarized policing. These are the most visible ...
tied to genocide and world war. After World War II, with economies improving around the world and the Allies' tight control over the defeated countries, the chaos that fascism relied on was mostly gone. Fascism in its original form never again gained a strong enough foothold to take control....
From roughly the 16th to 19th centuries, much of the Earth was gripped by a persistent frigid cold. It left ripples through history—and some lessons for today’s climate crisis.
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness. —David Steindl-Rast 74 As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery,...
This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the Rwandan genocide. I could not care less about how much money Blair makes from his memoirs. If the price of stopping the war ...
the new prominence during the war was due to Allied propagandists who often use the term war crimes to indict German lawlessness. In 1915, the allies also coined the concept of crimes against humanity in response to Armenian genocide perpetrated by their ...