Genocide Studies
The Zoryan Institute's pursuit of Genocide Studies has several goals:
To honor the memory of all victims of genocide; to promote international human rights and justice through education and awareness; to understand the immense impact genocide has had on the Armenian people; to understand the causes of genocide through the study of history, sociology, and other disciplines, by taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach; to be able to define and predict the conditions by which genocide occurs; to be able to prevent future genocide.
Armenian Genocide
The Genocide of the Armenian people, planned and executed by the Ottoman Turkish Government during the First World War, constitutes the most traumatic moment in Armenian history. As an event of unprecedented proportions, and as an archetype for future genocides, the Armenian Genocide is a major tragedy for all humanity.
Scholars
Links
The Crime of Genocide
A discussion of the definition
of the word genocide from the book Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth
Century, by Alan Destexhe.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rwanda/reports/dsetexhe.html
Eight Stages of Genocide
By Gregory H. Stanton (Originally
written in 1996 at the Department of State; presented at the Yale University
Center for International and Area Studies in 1998). Genocide is a process
that develops in eight stages that are predictable but not inexorable.
At each stage, preventive measures can stop it.
http://www.genocidewatch.org/8stages.htm
The Forgotten
A historical overview, photographs,
and video clip testimonies of those who survived the Genocide.
http://www.theforgotten.org/intro.html
Genocide: Resources for Teaching
Contains news, links, and
bibliographies on genocide and international law. Maintained by the University
of Memphis and Pennsylvania State University, Genocide Research Project.
www.people.memphis.edu/~genocide
Two Bibliographies on the
Armenian Genocide
Two well-researched bibliographies,
up to 1996.
www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/facts/gen_bib.html
UN Convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Text of the UN Convention.
www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/texts/BH225.txt
University of Minnesota Holocaust
Center
A fully featured web site
for the study and teaching of the Holocaust and genocide.
chgs.hispeed.com/Educational_Resources/educational_resources.html
Wolfgang Gust Home Page
Contains the complete, revised
edition of Deutschland und Armenien, 1914-1918 [Germany and
Armenia, 1914-1918], a collection
of diplomatic documents edited by Johannes Lepsius in 1919.
home.t-online.de/home/wolfgang.gust
Armenian Genocide
"Basic summary of events,
quotes, articles of the time, suggested readings and pictures."
www.cilicia.com/armo10.html
Armenian Genocide
"Bibliography, fact sheet,
quotes, survivor accounts, and the full text of Vahakn Dadrian's article
The Turkish Military Tribunal's Prosecution of the Authors of the Armenian
Genocide"
history1900s.about.com/cs/armeniangenocide/index.htm
Armenian National Institute (ANI)
"Devoted to the study, research,
and affirmation of the Armenian Genocide."
www.armenian-genocide.org
Armenocide by Wolfgang Gust
Documents from the German
State Archives relating to the Armenian Genocide during the First World
War.
http://www.armenocide.de/armenocide/armgende.nsf
Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute
http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/index.php
Armenian Genocide Resource Library for Teachers
http://www.teachgenocide.org/index.htm
Genocide Watch
http://www.genocidewatch.org/
International Association of Genocide Scholars
http://www.genocidescholars.org/