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Lesson Continuing Lemkin's Legacy: What Can We Do to Prevent and Stop Genocide?

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Rebecca Hamilton: Building a Permanent Anti-genocide Constituency

Rebecca Hamilton shares how she mobilized the Harvard community against genocide in Sudan.

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10:37

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Civics & Citizenship

Language

English — US

Updated

June 5, 2014

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Explore resources that meet the California History–Social Science Framework standards.

Four students sit in a circle in conversation. The student in the center speaks with their hands raised.

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Explore resources that meet the Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework.

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Students reflect on peace as a concept, explore the work of peacebuilding organisations and individuals, and consider the power of seeking reconciliation over vengeance.

Picture of students teamwork.

Lesson

Students learn about the events and choices of the Armenian Genocide and explore the consequences of the genocide from the perspective of survivors.

Fleeing from death. An Armenian mother on the heights of the Taurus Mountains.

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Explore how language and culture shape identity, and learn about the challenges faced by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada to preserve their traditional identity.

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Explore how language and culture shape identity, and learn about the challenges faced by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada to preserve their traditional identity.

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Examine how Indigenous identities in Canada have been shaped by the ways European settlers responded to real and imagined differences between themselves and the Indigenous Peoples.

Graphic from cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."

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Examine how Indigenous identities in Canada have been shaped by the ways European settlers responded to real and imagined differences between themselves and the Indigenous Peoples.

Graphic from cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."

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Learn the history behind the legislation and policies created by the Canadian government in the nineteenth century to dispossess and assimilate the Indigenous Peoples.

Graphic from cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."

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Learn the history behind the legislation and policies created by the Canadian government in the nineteenth century to dispossess and assimilate the Indigenous Peoples.

Graphic from cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."

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Read firsthand accounts from survivors of their often profoundly painful and damaging experiences at residential schools.

Graphic from cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."

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Read firsthand accounts from survivors of their often profoundly painful and damaging experiences at residential schools.

Graphic from cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."

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