Prof. Taner Akcam to participate in ‘Overcoming Genocide Denial’ panel

What are the ways to overcome genocide denial, commonly understood to be the last stage of genocide? By providing a comparative examination of the Holocaust and the Armenian, Rwandan, and Sudanese Genocides, this panel aims to identify a best practices approach to overcoming denial by considering strategies that have been successful in the past, as well as those that have been controversial.”

Taner Akcam, the Kaloosdian/Mugar Professor at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will be on the panel of a discussion on ‘Overcoming Genocide Denial.”

Other panelists include Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, president, Genocide Watch; Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention, George Mason University; and Sheri Rosenberg, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Human Rights and Genocide Clinic & Program in Holocaust & Human Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

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