Workshop Outline
August Zemo, Facing History and Ourselves, Switzerland:
"Education as a tool in the prevention of genocide"
This workshop will look at the nature of genocide and its evolution in the 20th century by a brief examination of the German genocide in its southwest African colony and then going on to focus (with a video clip from Amnesty International) on the Rwandan genocide. The presenter would also touch upon Ervin Staub’s summary of the preconditions for genocide in Armenia and Nazi Germany before I looked at Amnesty International’s suggestions for the prevention of genocide (and why they hold little hope for success). The workshop would then briefly examine of a series of incidents of racism in a small American city and what was done about them by the citizens (using a brief video clip) before concluding with a recent Harvard study of how Facing History reduces incidents of racism in schools.
