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- Abstract: This is a collection of downloadable video clips on the theme of Conflict, with guiding questions for students. Clips are drawn from the following PBS WIDE ANGLE documentaries: "Greetings from Grozny" (2002), "Ladies First" (2004), "Suicide Bombers" (2004).
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- Abstract: Focusing on the crisis in Darfur, the speakers will offer a comprehensive view of how and why a conflict evolves into a full-fledged genocide. The Darfur genocide has involved not just the outright immediate killing of people, but also the creation of conditions that have made life impossible by chasing people out into the desert and destroying their homes, villages, food supplies and livelihoods. Speakers will present eyewitness accounts of events on the ground in Darfur as well as academic research into conflict and peace within and between nations.
Featured panelists:
Shane Bauer is a current undergraduate student in UCB's Peace and Conflict Studies Department. The first year away from his home in Minnesota, he witnessed war for the first time in Macedonia at the impressionable age of 19. Following this traumatic yet illuminating exposure to war, he traveled as a photojournalist, documenting conflict and genocide around the world. Last year, Shane traveled to Chad and Sudan.
Martha Saavedra is the Associate Director of the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies, an interdisciplinary research center supporting basic research on Africa. Her research includes agrarian politics and ethnic conflict in Sudan.
David Tuller is a doctoral student in the School of Public Health and has a special interest in looking at public health through a human rights lens. He investigated some of Darfur's mass atrocities as part of a team from Physicians for Human Rights in 2005.
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- Abstract: The goal of this seminar is to have open discussions of controversial political and social issues and raise awareness of current world events in an informal setting. Discussions for the first part of each class will focus on current events from that week, while in the second part of class students will discuss a scheduled issue in greater detail. Scheduled issues include the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the regulation of marijuana, how our society should punish criminals, genocide in Rwanda and Sudan, discrimination in our society today, the future of social security, whether pornography is sexist, and where we can go from here in the Arab/Israeli Conflict. Discussions will be supplemented by readings, films, and public speakers. Students will also be encouraged to read news media from around the world.
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- Abstract: Darfur is Dying is a viral video game for change that provides a window into the experience of the 2.5 million refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. Players must keep their refugee camp functioning in the face of possible attack by Janjaweed militias. Players can also learn more about the genocide in Darfur that has taken the lives of 400,000 people, and find ways to get involved to help stop this human rights and humanitarian crisis.
- Subject:
Humanities, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Secondary, Post-secondary
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Take Action Games
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- Abstract: This collection of activities and resources is a companion guide for the 15-minute film Defying genocide. The history of the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwandan genocide illustrate the entire spectrum of human behavior, from unimaginable evil to extraordinary goodness.
Through a study of the Holocaust, Rwanda, and genocide, students learn that genocide occurs because individuals, organizations, and governments make choices to participate, resist, or turn away.
Students can also see that at the same time human beings have potential to inflict harm and suffering, they have the potential to rescue and to stand up against evil. The information in this packet is designed to help learners of grades 7 and up understand the context of the genocide in Rwanda and consider the actions of a few individuals who saved lives.
In addition to background materials, a timeline, a map, and a vocabulary list, the packet provides activities for before and after viewing the film.
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- Abstract: Open to qualified graduate students who would like to pursue special subjects or projects. Please consult graduate administration prior to registration. Description from the course home page: The purpose of this seminar is to examine systematically, and comparatively, great and middle power military interventions into civil wars during the 1990's. These civil wars were high on the policy agenda of western states during the 1990's. Yet, these interventions were usually not motivated by obvious classical vital interests. Given the extraordinary security enjoyed by the great and middle powers of the west in the Cold War's aftermath, these activities are puzzling.
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- Abstract: This unit explores the Holocaust, as the destruction of European Jewry is commonly known. The mass killing represented by the Holocaust raises many questions concerning the development of European civilization during the twentieth century. This unit, therefore, covers essential ground if you wish to understand this development.
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- Abstract: This site offers multimedia exhibits filled with artifacts and photos that help students learn about the Holocaust. Topics include Kristallnacht, the St. Louis ocean liner, the rescue of the Jews of Denmark, Oskar Schindler, the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Father Jacques, the dress of Lola Rein, Nazi book burnings, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, America's responses, Arthur Szyk, maps, and children.
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- Abstract: Hush is a game set in 1994 Rwanda, during a Hutu raid on a Tutsi community. You play a mother who must calm her baby by singing a lullaby. You must type out the words of your lullaby calmly and evenly to keep your child from crying, maintaining your rhythm while you are bombarded by the increasingly disturbing sounds and images of the genocide just beyond your window. If you fail to keep your child from crying, you will be discovered and killed. If you can keep your child quiet, you can survive the violence and escape. The Hush team made their game as part of USC’s Intermediate Game Design class taught by Professor Tracy Fullerton and Professor Peter Brinson. Students used the Values At Play curriculum, which encourages the conscious embedding of human values in game design. Hush emerged from a brainstorming session using the Grow A Game cards, a game design tool developed by the Values At Play project.
- Subject:
Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Secondary, Post-secondary
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Individual Authors
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- Abstract: FILM: This lesson plan is designed to be used in conjunction with the film, Inheritance, which illustrates the lasting effects of the Holocaust from the perspectives of both a victim of Nazi war crimes and the child of a perpetrator. Classrooms can use this lesson to explore the responsibility of standing up to injustice and cruelty.
NOTE: This film contains sensitive content related to the genocide of Europe's Jews during World War II. In addition to verbal descriptions of abuses, the complete film includes disturbing concentration camp images, footage of the execution of a war criminal by hanging, and clips from the movie Schindler's List that contain profanity and show the shooting of a Jewish woman. Please preview before using the film in its entirety in the classroom. The clips for this lesson plan, however, are less graphic and contain primarily verbal descriptions of cruelty.
- Subject:
Humanities
- Grade Level:
Secondary, Post-secondary
- Collection:
PBS
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- Abstract: This lesson allows students to analyze and reflect on the actions of a famous sports figure that do not really fall neatly into the now familiar categories of perpetrator, bystander, and rescuer. Students are able to compare and contrast Schmeling’s complexity with the familiar figure of Schindler, but perhaps more important, they are able to compare and contrast Max Schmeling’s choices in various situations with their own choices.
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- Abstract: The PBS WIDE ANGLE documentary series analyzes a number of significant and current global issues. In 'Ladies First' (2004), WIDE ANGLE delivers a riveting report on the political and socio-economic success of the Rwandan women after the genocide of 1994 that divided the country's major ethnic groups, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The purpose of this lesson is to use 'Ladies First' to show not only that women working together can and did create a dialogue and a basis for trust among ethnic groups, but also to show how these same women are challenging their traditional role in Rwandan society and assuming unprecedented leadership. Although the basis of the lesson is the success of women in Rwanda post-genocide, the lesson begins with a clip from the movie HOTEL RWANDA, which establishes the devastating brutality of 1994 that left the country in utter ruin. As a Culminating Activity, students will use various Web sites to hone skills needed for the Global Studies Regents Exam, including: analyzing statistical, economic, and demographic information; a map exercise; and the interpretation of a primary document.
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- Abstract: This video from Wide Angle profiles Rwanda’s new economy through the small business of Epiphanie Mukashyaka, a woman widowed by recent genocide.
- Subject:
Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
Primary, Secondary
- Collection:
Teachers' Domain
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- Abstract: Welcome & Opening Remarks
- George Breslauer, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley
- Eric Stover, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley
Keynote Address - "The Responsibility to Protect: The Power of an Idea "
- Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group
Panel: Introduction to R2P
This panel will explore the political, historical, and legal underpinnings of the responsibility to protect. It will address the promise and potential of the emerging norm, as well as the challenges to its practical implementation. The discussion will consider the perspectives of scholars, policy makers, local and national government officials, UN representatives, and military personnel, among others.
- Jerry Sanders, Peace and Conflict Studies, UC Berkeley, moderator
- Richard Cooper, R2P Coalition
- Steve Crawshaw, Human Rights Watch
- Heidi Hulan, Canadian Mission to the United Nations
- Ramesh Thakur, UN University
Panel: R2P and International vs. National Policy Perspectives
International commitments have occasionally been at odds with U.S. priorities at home. How does R2P fit within current U.S. foreign policy and what are the challenges to embracing its principles? Which organizations, policy makers and politicians have been instrumental in promoting the idea? What theoretical and practical obstacles must be overcome for R2P to become an influential part of U.S. foreign policy? Issues to be discussed include a range of interventions, including use of force.
- Donald Steinberg, International Crisis Group, moderator
- Lee Feinstein, Council on Foreign Relations
- Victoria (Tori) Holt, Henry L. Stimson Center, author of The Impossible Mandate? Military Preparedness, the Responsibility to Protect, and Modern Peacekeeping
- Takahiro Katsumi, Foreign Policy Aide, Diet of Japan
- Hansjörg Strohmeyer, Chief, Policy Development and Studies Branch, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN
Panel: Building a Social Movement: An Examination of Current and Past Campaigns
How can lessons learned from successful campaigns be applied to the anti-genocide and R2P campaign? Models include the anti-slavery campaign, the campaign to ban landmines, and the campaign for the creation of the ICC.
- Anita Sharma, ENOUGH, moderator
- Mark Hanis, Genocide Intervention Network
- William Pace, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy, Coalition for the International Criminal Court
- Ken Rutherford, Landmine Survivors Network
- Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, M.D., My Sister's Keeper
Closing Remarks
- Juan Méndez, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and President, International Center for Transitional Justice
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- Abstract: The Failure of Humanity in Preventing Genocides
Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire led the United Nations peacekeeping mission to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. Featured in the film Hotel Rwanda, he will discuss the tragedy and its personal and professional aftermath.
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- Abstract: Learn about the role local churches played in bringing Hutus and Tutsis together in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in this Wide Angle video segment.
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