Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights

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The Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR) is a non-profit organization based at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.[1] The Center seeks to enhance the understanding of genocide, political violence, and protracted conflict and related mechanisms for their prevention and resolution. With an interdisciplinary faculty of over 40 distinguished scholars from all three Rutgers campuses, and support from an internationally renowned advisory board and network of affiliated scholars/ professionals the Center has a broad base of partnerships across the United States and the globe.[1] CGHR is led by founder and Director Alexander Hinton[2] and Associate Director Nela Navarro.[3]

Partnerships[]

International[]

With a wide range of international partners in Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, England, Norway, Rwanda, Spain, Ukraine, as well as a transnational partnership, the CGCHR focuses its programs across the world building cooperation through international relationships.[4][5]

Local/Domestic[]

The center has partnerships with the American Mideast Leadership Network, The Darfur Rehabilitation Project (Newark, NJ), Genocide Watch (Washington DC), the Institute for the Study of Genocide (John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York), and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. Some other notable partnerships include Auschwitz Institute (New York, New York), Built on Respect (New York, NY), Center for International Conflict Resolution (Columbia University, NJ), and the Museum of Human Rights, Tolerance, and Freedom. In addition, the CGCHR works with various Rutgers based partners across the three campuses in Camden, New Brunswick, and Newark.[4]

Programs[]

According to the center's website: CGHR currently has eight research clusters/programs on topics ranging from genocide to war and global understanding. In addition, CGHR has a number of research projects that focus on specific issues within and across these clusters, such as the U.S.-MidEast Dialogue Project, the Forgotten Genocides Project, and the Global Dialogue Initiative. Recently, the Center has been working on Genocide and Atrocity Prevention, the Raphael Lemkin Project, and Truth in the Americas to name a few other running programs.[6] Lastly, the Center launched the Global Consortium Initiative as a project.

Further Reading/Publications[]

Alexander Hinton. It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US. NYU Press, 2021.[7]

Alexander Hinton, Giorgio Shani, and Jeremiah Alberg, co-editors, Rethinking Peace: Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019.

Alexander Hinton, Andrew Woolford, and Jeff Benvenuto, co-editors, Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America. Duke University Press, 2015.

Devon Emerson Hinton. Genocide and Mass Violence: Memory, Symptom, And Recovery. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Alexander Hinton, Thomas LaPointe, and Douglas Irvin-Erickson, co-editors, Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory. Rutgers University Press, 2014.

Genese Sodikoff, ed., The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Arthur Romano, Peace Education booklet. Newark, NJ: Paul Robeson Gallery.

Daniel Veneciano and Alex Hinton, eds. Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Justice in Cambodia. Newark, NJ: Paul Robeson Gallery, 2007.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Search". Rutgers University. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  2. ^ "Alex Hinton". Rutgers SASN. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2021-06-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ a b "People And Partners". Rutgers Global. Archived from the original on 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  5. ^ Allan Hoffman, "Writing-And Making- History", Rutgers Magazine, Spring 2010, http://magazine.rutgers.edu/departments/spring-2010/on-the-banks/writing-and-making-history Archived 2013-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "CGHR Projects". Archived from the original on 2014-05-01. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  7. ^ {{Cite web |url=https://nyupress.org/9781479808014/it-can-happen-here/

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