This unit provides background on the Armenian Genocide and invites students to explore the important questions it raises about how the global community defines, responds to, and can prevent genocide.
This unit provides background on the Armenian Genocide and invites students to explore the important questions it raises about how the global community defines, responds to, and can prevent genocide.
Explore our online resource on the Indian Residential Schools and their long-lasting effects on Canada’s Indigenous Peoples.
Read a call to Canada's government to recognize its treatment of Indigenous Peoples in colonial Canada as genocide.
Consider how the term cultural genocide describes the efforts of the Canadian government to assimilate the Indigenous Peoples through residential schools.
Learn about the origin and meaning of the term genocide as defined in the UN Genocide Convention.
Consider how the Armenian Genocide was made possible by the staggering brutality of World War I.
Learn about Germany’s atrocities against the Herero, the Nama, and other indigenous groups in South-West Africa during Europe's colonization of Africa in the late 1800s.
Designed for Canadian educators, this resource examines the Indian Residential Schools and their long-lasting effects on Canada’s Indigenous Peoples.
Read American Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s account of a discussion with Ottoman Interior Minister Talaat about the treatment of Armenians and consider how diplomacy can be used to respond to genocide.
Learn how the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada addresses the cycle by which trauma and violence is passed from one generation to another.
Learn how activists rejected the White Paper policy and led a campaign to get the Canadian government to honour its past agreements with the indigenous nations.
Consider how important it can be for survivors of the Indian Residential Schools system to speak about their experiences.