Supplemental Materials

Confronting Genocide: Never Again?

Confronting Genocide: Never Again? traces the evolution of the international community's response to genocide and examines how the United States has responded to five cases of genocide. Students consider how we should respond in the future if confronted with another genocide.

Online Resources from the Choices Program

Violence in Darfur - Teaching with the News
A one to two-period online lesson in which students explore the recent violence in Sudan using multiple sources, evaluate the effectiveness of different online resources, assess the argument over whether Darfur is a conflict or a genocide, and consider the international response to Darfur and assess possible consequences. Handouts and links to selected online news sources are provided.

Confronting Genocide in Sudan - Teaching with the News
A one-day online lesson that was developed in spring 2005 to help students wrestle with defining genocide in the context of the ongoing civil war in Sudan. It is available from the Choices Program's Teaching with the News archives.

Responding to Genocide - online survey that provides an opportunity for students to make their views known.

Web Links

Armenian Articles
Newspaper articles covering the Armenian Genocide

Death by Government
Site for statistics and information about murderous governments

Frontline: The Triumph of Evil
A PBS website addressing the Rwandan Genocide and the role of the West

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
The official website of the ICTY

International Criminal Tribunal Rwanda (ICTR)
The official website of the ICTR

Sudan Research, Analysis, and Advocacy
Electronically published analytic briefs and advocacy writings on Sudan

The U.S. and Genocide in Rwanda 1994
The National Security Archive’s database of faxes, government documents etc. concerning the Rwandan Genocide

Genocide Studies
Background and resources on various genocides

Books

Bartov. Omer. Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003). 248 pages.

Carny, Israel W. Encyclopedia of Genocide (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1999). 700 pages, 2 volumes.

Power, Samantha. “A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (New York: Basic Books, 2002). 610 pages.

Prunier, Gerard. The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (New York: Columbia University, 1995). 398 pages.

Staub, Ervin. The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). 336 pages.

NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, Confronting Genocide: Never Again? Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.