PERPETRATOR BEHAVIOR AND GENOCIDE PREVENTION

Catalog description

Open only to Genocide Prevention Certificate Students. This course is a Genocide Prevention (GP) elective. Cross-listed as MAHG 5037. This course will focus on perpetrator behavior and motivation in genocide and mass atrocity. Case studies, also focusing on the judicial consequences, will be drawn from the Holocaust, Cambodia, Latin America, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, and child soldiers. In addition to understanding how ordinary people come to commit genocide and mass atrocity, this course will focus on the implications of that understanding for prevention of such ordinary evil.