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__**Investigating Genocide** __ 


 * This Independent Study will analyze the act of genocide over the course of human history. The course will examine the causes, the processes and the effects that genocide has on societies around the world. It will also examine what classifies genocide as a crime. In doing so, the course will also construct its own basis definition, through certain genocides can be analyzed.**

Definition of "genocide" as stated by the 1948 //United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide//:

Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in pat, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

a) Killing members of the group b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.


 * Please note that this is the definition that has been accepted by 142 country members of the United Nations. However, this will not be the definition at the basis of this course.

Essential Questions:


 * 1) ====What classifies an event as a genocide?====
 * 2) ====How do the differing sources of genocidal conflict affect the process in which genocide takes place?====
 * 3) ====How do societies reconcile following genocide?====
 * 4) ====What role do bystander countries play in the occurrence of genocide?====
 * 5) ====What factors affect how societies choose to remember and learn from genocide?====