Genocide

Twenty years after the Rwandan Genocide, with Paul Rusesabagina

Mar 28, 2014

Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide, Paul Rusesabagina, the Hutu hotel manager who sheltered and protected over 1,200 people from the 100-day massacre, visited the Ford School to share his story. More than 700 members of the university and...

John Ciorciari in The Economist, "When does a massacre become a genocide?"

Sep 17, 2010

John Ciorciari was quoted in The Economist in an article about the second trial of the United Nations-backed tribunal against Khmer Rouge leaders. Four former leaders—Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, and Ieng Thirith—will face charges of war...

Preventing Cambodia’s genocidal past from becoming Afghanistan’s future

May 20, 2021, 7:00-8:00 pm EDT

How can the U.S. avoid a repeat of the 1975 Indochina withdrawal, which contributed to the rise of Cambodia’s genocidal Khmer Rouge regime? This event is organized with the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Donia Human Rights Center.

The “Secret Genocide” in Myanmar

Nov 29, 2018, 6:00 pm EST

Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)

A talk with Azeem Ibrahim, the author of a new book on the Rohingya crisis.

John Ciorciari: Preventing Cambodia’s Genocidal Past from Becoming Afghanistan’s Future

May 20, 2021 0:57:16

After nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan, the U.S. government is engaged in talks with the Taliban as part of an effort to forge a peace settlement and wind down U.S. military commitment.

Allan Stam: Understanding the Rwanda genocide

Feb 18, 2009 1:18:01

Allan Stam, U-M Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies, discusses the genocide, civil war, vendetta killings and random violence that took place in Rwanda in 1994. February, 2009.