Explore past and present instances of genocide and encourage students to raise their voices about the devastating impact of such atrocities on individuals, communities, and countries.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Why Don't People Act/Save the Darfur Puppy
Journalist Nicholas Kristof addresses the question, “Why should we pay attention to the rest of the world?”
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Justice & Human Rights
Darfur Students
Children from Darfur in a temporary school at a refugee site in Sam Ouandja, Central African Republic
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Justice & Human Rights
Samantha Power: Responding to Genocide in Darfur
Samantha Power discusses how students can help in stopping human rights violations.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Reading 1: “Save the Darfur Puppy”
Read an editorial by New York Times columnist Nick Kristof.
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Justice & Human Rights
International Law, Testing the Limits: The ICC and Darfur
From the film "The Reckoning" , International prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo tells the story of the 2005 International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution of war crimes in Darfur.
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Justice & Human Rights
Genocide & Mass Violence
International Law, Testing the Limits: The ICC and Darfur
Ethnic groups living in Darfur, a territory in the southwest region of Sudan, have competed for essential resources (e.g., land and water) for centuries. These primarily agrarian tribes felt marginalized by the central government in Khartoum, especially since the military coup in 1989.
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Cecil the Lion, the Darfur Puppy, and Our Universe of Obligation
The killing of Cecil the Lion on July 1st attracted both heavy news coverage and a flurry of responses on social media. An interesting thread emerged from these responses: questions about how people can become so outraged over the death of a lion on the other side of the world, when there are larger scale, or more local, stories of individuals and groups of people suffering unspeakable violence and injustice. The underlying theme that unites many of these confrontations is “Which story about tragedy or injustice is more worthy of our attention?”
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Creating Change in Darfur: Actor Don Cheadle Shares His Inspiration
Actor Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) shares the experience of his first trip to Chad to visit with refugees from Darfur. The hope and optimism of the people he met became his inspiration for getting more involved in helping to end the crisis.
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