Teaching about Genocide

Samuel Totten, a longtime scholar of genocide studies and retired professor (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), is the author of Teaching About Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide: Fundamental Issues and Approaches (Information Age Publishing, 2018). Over the past fourteen years he has conducted field work into crimes against humanity and genocide in the refugee camps along the Chad/Darfur, Sudan border, and in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.

Part 1: High School Teachers and Staff Developers Chapter 1: Providing Students with the Opportunity to Engage with Survivors of Genocide by Michael Anthony Chapter 2: "A Global Collaborative Approach to Genocide Education by Kate Weckesser English Chapter 3: The Bosnian Genocide: Teaching Ideas and Resources by Lisa M. Adeli Chapter 4: Happening Now: The Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar, A Jigsaw Activity Using Maces 10 Stages of Genocide by Frank J. Prez Part 2: Professors Chapter 5: If Never Again! Is a Key Theme of Genocide Studies, Perhaps the Typical Approach to Genocide Education Needs to Be Reconsidered by Samuel Totten Chapter 6: Teaching Introduction to Genocide Studies by Ashley L. Greene. Chapter 7: Rewriting the Genocide Convention by Tracy H. Slagter Chapter 8: Our Nature in Genocide: Teaching Atrocity from Within the Human Continuum by Timothy Horner Chapter 9: Extraordinary Atrocities, Ordinary People: Teaching Genocide through the Lenses of Banal and Fetishized Evils by Cathryn van Kessel Chapter 10: Moving Beyond Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders, and Upstanders by Hollie Nyseth Brehm and Michelle L. OBrien Chapter 11: Teaching About Perpetrators and Perpetration in Genocide by Timothy Williams Chapter 12 :Understanding Perpetrators? by Susanne C. Knittel Chapter 13: Confronting Mass Atrocities: Interplays Between Legal Norms, Political Interests, and Moral Imperatives for Action by Eyal Mayroz Chapter 14 :Teaching About Resistance to Genocide by Khatchig Mouradian Chapter 15 :"Balkan Stereotypes and the Problem of Teaching Southeastern European Genocide by James Frusetta Chapter 16: From Student to Citizen: The Impact of Personal Narratives in University-Level Genocide Education by Ari Kohen and Gerald J. Steinacher Chapter 17: Does Place Matter? Using Inquiry to Explore the Geography of Genocide by Aaron Johnson and Lisa Pennington Chapter 18: The Complexity of Genocide: Atrocity Prevention and Interactive Learning by Benjamin Meiches Chapter 19: Teaching Economic Aspects of Genocide and Their Prevention by Charles H. Anderton Chapter 20: In the Margins: Teaching About Genocide While Teaching Writing by Taleen Mardirossian Chapter 21: Advice on Teaching About Genocide with Film by Glenn Mitoma and Alan S. Marcus Chapter 22: Art and Genocide in University Classrooms by Mark Celinscak Chapter 23: Genocide Site Visits as an Educational Tool: A Bosnian Experience by Hikmet Kari. Chapter 24: Developing an Heroic Imagination through Study Abroad in Guatemala by Trisha Posey and Kevin Simpson Chapter 25: The Potential and Limitations of Student Fieldwork on Continents and in Nations Other Than Their Own by Timothy Williams Chapter 26: Genocide and the Promise of Positive Peace by James G. Brown