GENOCIDE WATCH INTERNSHIP

Catalog description

Open only to graduate students and undergraduate students with permission. This course is an internship opportunity connected with the online warning system called Genocide Watch. Students will be trained in research and writing about contemporary cases of genocide in a professional policy-oriented setting. Various interpretive protocols will be used, including the UN's Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes, The Ten Stages of Genocide, the Political Instability Task Force risk assessments, and other databases. The course will meet at least 5 times during the semester and students are expected to put in 10 work hours a week in the Genocide Watch office in Atlantic City.