Teaching Genocide
Promoting a culture of peace... by ensuring knowledge of genocides

Notes about the resource collection:
This collection began as a list of websites supporting the Contemporary World LES entitled " Tensions and Conflict:  The Rwandan Genocide through graphic novels and interviews, a part of the Life Stories of Montreal Education Working Group's effort to design and develop pedagogical and instructional material and activities that use some of the many interviews with victims of mass atrocities collected by the Life Stories project.   (Note that the LES collection and the database collection below are complimentary and do not necessarily contain the same references.)

Then, in the summer of 2010 the findings of Liz Airton's excellent literature review was included in this list, or at least many of the online resources she found were added.  (Note that descriptions of sites drawn up by Ms. Airton are indicated with "LA", though as she herself indicates in her document these descriptions may originate from the websites themselves.)

Finally, the need to build this collection and to provide a place for it on LEARN was made transparent after I participated in the 2010 Holocaust Education Series, speaking alongside the likes of Romeo Dallaire and the authors of the essential text " The Will to Intervene".  While emphasizing a place for genocide education in the Contemporary World course, I also argued for the presence of such knowledge throughout the curriculum, inspired as I was by the book's insistence that "civil society" has a role to play in disseminating moral, political and historical knowledge in order to prevent such occurrences in the future.   (PR)

Featured sites and sections:

Montreal Life Stories Oral history project exploring Montrealers? experiences and memories of mass violence and displacement. Main web site Education Working Group News and Events	"Life Stories of Displaced Montrealers: Ethics, History and Contemporary World!"  QPAT 2011 workshop materials Related resources and web site links from this workshop are available here
Citizenshift  Digital Stories on Citizenshift.org	Mapping Memories SS Blog post and link to CBC reports Direct link to the Mapping Memories at http://mappingmemories.ca/

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Below is the present LEARN database keyword search for Genocide:
(Click to view database search in a separate window)

Note:  A image next to a resource may mean you need to access it via another means.  (If it is a Discovery Education video, log in to LEARN, access Vodzone area through your My LEARN Homepage, then search the video in question at Discovery.)