How We Learn to Disagree
When I was growing up, I didn’t have any role models for how to have a healthy disagreement. In my family, disagreements were a zero-sum game. You were either right…
“We are all human, with Dignity…” Parents, did you hear that?
After passing my high school exams with flying colors, I received an admission in a University located in a faraway region. In the farewell communion just before leaving the village,…
Shared Ideals are the Answer to Diversity Conflict
By Sellah Nasimiyu King’oroDiversity is beautiful but it can present challenges sometimes. Brown (1983) coins the word diversity conflict to refer to the exchanges of incompatible behavior among interdependent individuals…
The Insane Power of a Smile
The power of a smile… Do you know that if you smile to the world, the whole world smiles back at you? Well, I would like to try and convince…
The Abandonment of the Kurdish People: This Isn’t About Politics
The views below are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the stances of the Center for Genocide Research and Education.This isn’t about politics anymore. Regardless of…
Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention
Seventy years ago, the world came together and said some crimes against humanity were so heinous that they should never again be repeated. The world came together and wrote the…
Why should you care? Your donation matters!
Why should we care about genocide here in the US? I’m often asked this question. Besides the obvious, that we should care about people being killed, there are a couple…
80 Years Later: The Lesson of Kristallnacht
The night of November 9, 1938 was the beginning of the true violence in the Third Reich. Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, turned the corner in German antisemitism transitioning…
Why study genocide?
The question I am most often asked by people when they find out I have a nonprofit that works on genocide or that I am getting a PhD in Holocaust…
What is Genocide?
The most basic definition of the term “genocide” comes from the roots Raphael Lemkin used to create the word. The Greek word genos refers to a race or tribe of…