Dr. Richard Hovannisian, professor of Near Eastern Studies at UCLA, speaks about the radicalization of the Young Turks in the Ottoman Empire from 1908-1914.
Scholar Beth Van Schaack discusses General Matsui Iwane’s involvement in the Nanjing atrocities.
Aliza Luft, Ph.D. Candidate helps us understand how the categories used to classify people who experience genocide are extremely limiting and erase many complexities.
Dr. Molly Ladd-Taylor gives a brief history of the eugenics movement and how it was applied in Canada.
This is a visual gallery of headlines from the New York Times during the Armenian Genocide. Click on the headlines to view the full articles.
This brief film provides an introduction to Facing History's suite of videos exploring the history of the Armenian Genocide.
Luma Mufleh speaks about her grandmother's compassion as part of a Community Conversation.
This film focuses on Benjamin Ferencz, a former prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials who is dedicated to preventing mass atrocities.
Social psychologist James Edward Waller describes the importance of studying perpetrator behavior.
Scholar Donna-Lee Frieze chronicles the life and work of Raphael Lemkin.
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.
The beginning of the Nanjing Atrocities occurred with the Imperial Japanese Army’s occupation of the then capital city of China, Nanjing. These images capture the early days of the military occupation as well as offer a geographic orientation to the city confines.