Panelists
Panelists
Panel Three. Combating Genocide Denial and Propaganda of Xenophobia
Henry Theriault
President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Worcester State University
Henry Theriault is the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Worcester State University, after 19 years in its Philosophy Department. Theriault’s research focuses on reparations, victim-perpetrator relations, denial, atrocity prevention, and mass violence against women and girls. He has lectured around the world and published numerous journal articles and book chapters, edited two books, and coauthored with Samuel Totten The UN Genocide Convention: A Primer (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press). He is founding co-editor of the Genocide Studies International journal, and from 2007 to 2012 he was co-editor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention. Since 2007 he has chaired the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group and is co-author More
Henry Theriault
President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Worcester State University
Henry Theriault is the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Worcester State University, after 19 years in its Philosophy Department. Theriault’s research focuses on reparations, victim-perpetrator relations, denial, atrocity prevention, and mass violence against women and girls. He has lectured around the world and published numerous journal articles and book chapters, edited two books, and coauthored with Samuel Totten The UN Genocide Convention: A Primer (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press). He is founding co-editor of the Genocide Studies International journal, and from 2007 to 2012 he was co-editor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention. Since 2007 he has chaired the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group and is co-author More
Omer Bartov
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University
Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. He is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, along with several other well-respected scholarly works on the Holocaust and genocide, including Hitler’s Army, Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories and Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine. He has written for The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Omer Bartov
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University
Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. He is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, along with several other well-respected scholarly works on the Holocaust and genocide, including Hitler’s Army, Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories and Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine. He has written for The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Jermaine McCalpin
Chair of the Afro-American Studies Program at New Jersey City University
Prof. Jermaine McCalpin is currently Chair of the African and African-American Studies Program at NJCU. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of the West Indies, Mona. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Brown University. Dr. McCalpin specializes in Africana political philosophy, Caribbean political thought, and transitional justice. His research interests include truth commissions, commissions of enquiry and political accountability, reparations for historic injustice such as slavery, Native American and Armenian genocides. McCalpin has written on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its development of a restorative justice approach to South Africa’s transitional justice issues as well as the moral justification for reparations for slavery and the Armenian More
Jermaine McCalpin
Chair of the Afro-American Studies Program at New Jersey City University
Prof. Jermaine McCalpin is currently Chair of the African and African-American Studies Program at NJCU. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of the West Indies, Mona. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Brown University. Dr. McCalpin specializes in Africana political philosophy, Caribbean political thought, and transitional justice. His research interests include truth commissions, commissions of enquiry and political accountability, reparations for historic injustice such as slavery, Native American and Armenian genocides. McCalpin has written on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its development of a restorative justice approach to South Africa’s transitional justice issues as well as the moral justification for reparations for slavery and the Armenian More
Tetsushi Ogata
Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Soka University of America
Dr. Tetsushi Ogata is Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Soka University of America. He is also the Convener of the Genocide Prevention Advisory Network (GPANet) and serves in the Steering Group of the Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes (GAAMAC), a state-led initiative to exchange knowledge and practices to build national architectures for atrocity prevention. Previously, he has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and George Mason University. He has also served in the Executive Board of the IAGS and in the Editorial Board of the IAGS’s journal, “Genocide Studies and Prevention” (GSP), and he was the Director of the Genocide Prevention Program at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR). He received his B.A. in Liberal Arts with International Studies concentration More
Tetsushi Ogata
Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Soka University of America
Dr. Tetsushi Ogata is Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Soka University of America. He is also the Convener of the Genocide Prevention Advisory Network (GPANet) and serves in the Steering Group of the Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes (GAAMAC), a state-led initiative to exchange knowledge and practices to build national architectures for atrocity prevention. Previously, he has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and George Mason University. He has also served in the Executive Board of the IAGS and in the Editorial Board of the IAGS’s journal, “Genocide Studies and Prevention” (GSP), and he was the Director of the Genocide Prevention Program at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR). He received his B.A. in Liberal Arts with International Studies concentration More
Benjamin Abtan
President of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement
Benjamin Abtan is the founder and the president of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement – EGAM, the founder and the coordinator of the Elie Wiesel Network of parliamentarians. He has been the political advisor of Bernard Kouchner, minister of Foreign affairs of France and the founder of Doctors Without Borders and of Doctors of the World, and of Christiane Taubira, minister of Justice of France. He has been the advisor for international affairs of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, the main French public financial institution, in order to build notably the Long Term Investors Club. He has also been the advisor of several French luxury houses for their institutional affairs. He has been very involved in civil society, as a member of the Board of SOS Racisme, the co-founder of the ”Save Darfur” coalition, the president of the French Union of JewishMore
Benjamin Abtan
President of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement
Benjamin Abtan is the founder and the president of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement – EGAM, the founder and the coordinator of the Elie Wiesel Network of parliamentarians. He has been the political advisor of Bernard Kouchner, minister of Foreign affairs of France and the founder of Doctors Without Borders and of Doctors of the World, and of Christiane Taubira, minister of Justice of France. He has been the advisor for international affairs of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, the main French public financial institution, in order to build notably the Long Term Investors Club. He has also been the advisor of several French luxury houses for their institutional affairs. He has been very involved in civil society, as a member of the Board of SOS Racisme, the co-founder of the ”Save Darfur” coalition, the president of the French Union of JewishMore
Clint Curle
Head of the Stakeholders Department, Canadian Museum of Human Rights
Clint Curle is Senior Advisor to the President-Stakeholder Relations at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, where he helps coordinate the interests of stakeholder communities and groups with the strategic priorities of the Museum. Before joining the Museum in 2010, Clint was, in turns, a university professor, executive director of a human rights NGO, a parish pastor and a lawyer. His educational background includes a PhD in political science, MA degrees in law and theology, and a law degree.
Clint Curle
Head of the Stakeholders Department, Canadian Museum of Human Rights
Clint Curle is Senior Advisor to the President-Stakeholder Relations at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, where he helps coordinate the interests of stakeholder communities and groups with the strategic priorities of the Museum. Before joining the Museum in 2010, Clint was, in turns, a university professor, executive director of a human rights NGO, a parish pastor and a lawyer. His educational background includes a PhD in political science, MA degrees in law and theology, and a law degree.