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 Mace’s 10 Stages of Genocide” by Frank J. Pérez

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. O’Brien

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 Karčić.

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