Genocide - Political Science
Political Science 4426F/9723A – 001GenocideFall 2013 Instructor: Laura ReidelWed: 1:30 - 3:30pm Office Location:Location: SSC 4255 Telephone:Office Hours: Email: lreidel@uwo.caCourse Description:An examination of the theoretical and methodological issues related to the topic of genocide and aconsideration of empirical cases of genocide and genocidal acts, such as “ethnic cleansing.” We willexamine recent debates and alternative theoretical models by referring to selected specific cases,beginning with those of the Armenians and Nazi Germany in the first half of the Twentieth century,and then move to discuss more recent cases, including those in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia,among others.Texts:Jones, Adam. 2011. Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. Second Edition. NewYork: Routledge.Totten, Samuel and William S. Parsons, eds. 2012. Centuries of Genocide: EyewitnessAccounts and Critical Views. Fourth Edition. New York: Routledge.Important Notice Re: Prerequisites/AntirequisitesYou are responsible for ensuring that you have successfully completed all course prerequisites, andthat you have not taken an antirequisite course. Lack of prerequisites may not be used as a basis forappeal. If you are found to be ineligible for a course, you may be removed from it at any time and youwill receive no adjustment to your fees. This decision cannot be appealed. If you find that you do nothave the course requisites, it is in your best interest to drop the course well before the end of theadd/drop period. Your prompt attention to this matter will not only help protect your academicrecord, but will ensure that spaces become available for students who require the course in questionfor graduation.Office of the Dean, Faculty of Social Science
Grade DistributionUndergraduate GraduateSeminar Participation 20 Seminar Participation 20Seminar Presentation 20 Seminar Presentation 20In-class essay 20 Final Essay, due Dec. 1 60Final Essay, due Dec. 1 40Seminar ParticipationThis assessment will be based on regular contributions to the class discussion, reflecting some graspof the relevant materials and some analytical abilities in applying those materials in the discussion.Students should consult the handout “Student Participation” for criteria.Seminar PresentationEach week, a group of two or more students will present the main points and arguments pertaining tothat week’s case study or main theme, to the class. Each presentation should be approximately 20minutes in length, and must include a one-page, single- sided hand-out for students in the class aswell as questions for discussion. As the presentation is expected to be a joint project between thestudents involved, all students in the group will receive the same grade. Student presenters areexpected to refer to material beyond that assigned to the class.In-class essayOn October 23, undergraduate students will write an in-class essay, from a selection of questionsdetermined in advance, on the material covered to that point in the course. No notes or aids will bepermitted. Graduate students will not attend the seminar that day.Final EssayUndergraduate students will be required to write one term essay of 12-15 typed, double-spacedpages, or between 3000-3750 words; graduate students will be required to write one term essayof 20-25 typed, double-spaced pages, or between 5000-6250 words. In all cases, studen thebottom of the essay. The topic of the paper may be selected from the list of topics provided below.The paper must provide an evidence based argument based on at least five academic sources (aboveand beyond those articles discussed in class). The paper must be submitted at the beginning of classon December 1st.A late penalty of 10% per day will be applied to papers submitted at any point after the start ofclass on December 1st.Please note that all essays must be submitted to Turnitin, using the link provided on WebCT.
Academic Dishonesty:Many different types of actions may be considered academically dishonest. These
Genocide in Rwanda. Genocide Studies and Prevention 2(3): 235-248. November 20 Psychological, Sociological and Anthropological perspectives -Jones Ch 10-11 -Haagensen, Lisa and Marinix Croes. (2012). Thy Brother’s Keeper?: The Relationship Between Social Distance and Intensity of Dehumanization During Genocide. Genocide Studies and Prevention .
11 Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State: The meaning of genocide, Volume 1, (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005). 12 For stages of how genocidal processes could develop, see Gregory Stanton. 1996. The 8 stages of genocide. In Totten and Bartrop, eds., The Genocide Studies Reader, (Routledge, 2009). Also available at Genocide Watch at
Genocide Trials from 1959-1994 Stages of 1994 genocide against Tutsi Inside the 1994 genocide against Tutsi: Personal testimony Types of weapons used to kill Tutsi Short and Long term impact of genocide against Tutsi ( national and international level) How a country destroyed by an unprecedented genocide was rebuilt and healed
Cambodian genocide, and more recently the Rwandan genocide. He elaborated that the Holocaust was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi . genocide which was all applied in Rwanda Genocide. The stages are classification, symbolization, dehumanization, o
CLASSIFICATION OF GENOCIDE IN MULTIPLE CATEGORIES 3 Leo Kuper: "Their Land Was Desired . So It Was Not Genocide" 3 Martin Luther King Jr.: "I Tremble for Our World" 3 . CAMBODIA, GENOCIDE IN THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE AND ITS LEADERS
resources to teach the history of the Cambodian genocide . Moreover, teachers who are capable of conveying the history are few in number, and they lack the training to teach effectively about genocide . the absence of genocide education is a sign that the specter of genocide continues to haunt Cambodia . Giving a full picture of what
THE UKRAINIAN GENOCIDE/HOLODOMOR, 1932-1933 A CURRICULUM and RESOURCE GUIDE for EDUCATORS* *Prepared by Professor Myron B. Kuropas, Ph.D., public member, . with the Cambodian Genocide of 1975 and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Few Americans, however, have heard of the Holodomor/Genocide which took place in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-1933. .
8 International IDEA Abbreviations and acronyms AERG Association of Student Survivors of the Genocide (Association des Étudiants et Élèves Rescapés du Genocide) ANA Afghan National Army ANP Afghan National Police ANSF Afghan National Security Forces AOG Armed opposition group ARMM Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao AVEGA Association of Genocide Widows (Association des Veuves du Genocide)
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have been around for many years. However, in the last 5 years, remarkable progress has been made using multilayered neural networks in diverse areas such as image recognition, speech recognition, and machine translation. AI is a general purpose technology that is likely to impact many industries. In this chapter I consider how machine .
