Intergenerational Survivors of Genocide and Mass Atrocities

Dr. Saghar Shahidi-Birjandian is the Founder of Collaborative Structural Change, a Founding Partner of Mediated Solutions, and Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. As a scholar-practitioner, Saghar’s work focuses on context-sensitive, survivor-centered problem analysis for strategy development in transitional justice and atrocity prevention, with publications in Genocide Studies and Prevention and the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.Dr. Sarah Snyder is a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, a lecturer at Goodwin University, and a founding member of Collaborative Structural Change. She published Trauma Beyond Time: Temporal Constructs in Holocaust Testimonies, examining intergenerational trauma and memory in Holocaust survivors and their descendants.

"The authors-intergenerational survivors in this volume, ask what it means to connect through trauma and call us to action now, without dropping intimate questions of personal and communal wellbeing and healing. This is an essential, unique and addictive read, branching out well beyond the academic niche of genocide and mass atrocity studies. All those interested in questions of justice, real-world grounded practice and scholarship should pick this book up. "- Luisa Calvete Portela Barbosa, SOAS University of London"This remarkable and innovative volume examines how genocide and mass violence rebounds across generations and informs not just lived experience but the contours of scholarly knowledge about these phenomena. The chapters are personal, powerful, and leave the reader both with keen insights and in awe of human resilience."- Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University, Newark

• Chapter 1: Introduction Part 1: Personal Identity and Intimate Ways of Knowing Inherited Genocide and Mass Atrocity Chapter 2: Fathertongue: Toward Embracing a Familial Legacy of Genocide and Survival Chapter 3: The Auschwitz Torah: Writing Histories of Childhood during the Holocaust Chapter 4: Invoking Place to Confront the Settler-Colonial Self Chapter 5: Dark Days of Tutsis in Rwanda: A Survivor’s Testimony Chapter 6: Ilsa’s Rug and My Journey as a Holocaust Scholar Part 2: Seemingly Removed but Deeply Connected Chapter 7: Bloodlines of Strife and Sorrow: Armenians a Century after Genocide Chapter 8: From the Mother’s Milk: Am I an Intergenerational Survivor of Genocide? Chapter 9: In Genocide’s Shadow: The Armenian Genocide and a Diaspora Existential Journey Part 3: Uncovering the Balance of Risk and Reward of Industrializing Genocide Studies Chapter 10: From Gaza to Darfur: Preventing Mass Atrocities Should Never be Controversial Chapter 11: Living with Hypocrisy in Genocide Studies and Atrocity Prevention Chapter 12: Early Warning Late Response: State Actors in Plateau State Conflicts Chapter 13: Healing through Genocide Studies: A Personal Perspective Chapter 14: Echoes of Trauma in Knowledge Production: Struggling for Recognition of Bangladesh’s 1971 Genocide Chapter 15: It is Impossible to Live Now [in 1933]”: Ten-10-Year Camp Imprisonment of My Great-Grandfather During the Holodomor Chapter 16: Conclusion