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Genocide: The Future of Prevention:1st Global Conference on Genocide by the International Network of Genocide
Scholars at the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence/The University of Sheffield/UK . Three papers on
Genocide in Pontus
Posted by Theofanis Malkidis
In December 2008 the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the UN ‘Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
the Crime of Genocide’ (1948). Politicians all over the world praised its achievements and the progress made so far in
the fight against genocide. And rightly so, as the achievements are many, mainly in the area of punishment and
mobilisation of public opinion. The Convention firmly rooted genocide in international law, which is increasingly
successful in bringing perpetrators of genocide to trial. Genocide as a crime is now also part of public consciousness
(at least in most parts of the world), and Non-Governmental Organizations in particular campaign tirelessly against
mass violence. The devotion of hundred of thousands to the cause of human rights and the rule of law warrants
recognition and applause.
Prevention, however has failed. If the people of Darfur, Chad, DR Congo or Zimbabwe, to name but a few, were invited to
the celebrations of the Convention, the world would get a rather grim picture. On almost all continents, people are
persecuted, expelled or killed because of their race, religion, gender or political affiliation. Collective violence,
whether organised and conducted by states or sub-state actors, is endemic in many regions, and despite all the human
rights rhetoric the international community closes its eyes or sits on its hands.
This failure, however, cannot only be blamed on political elites alone. Genocide Studies, as an academic discipline, is
responsible as well. The failure of the international community to develop effective mechanisms for prevention is
paralleled by academia’s seeming incapacity to critically reflect on the dilemmas of prevention as well as to develop new
theoretical approaches that escape the limitations of the control
paradigm (Oxford Research Group), which rests on the misleading and dangerous assumption that global security can
be guaranteed and threads controlled by military force rather than addressing the root causes of conflict. Traditional
ideas about prevention, which see genocide as a dysfunction of an otherwise working international political and
economic system that can be contained by policing, have not been developed further to offer satisfying answers to the
many challenges of the 21st
century, especially the relationship between global injustice and violence or environmental change and genocide, which
will in all likelihood drastically increase the occurrence of genocidal moments.
In order to address these pressing questions, the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS; www.inogs.com)
together with the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence (SGMV) at The University of Sheffield/UK (http:
//www.genocidecentre.dept.shef.ac.uk) will dedicate the 1st Global Conference on Genocide, to sustainable genocide
prevention for the 21st century. ‘Genocide: The Future of Prevention’.
Topics of particular interest included
the following:
-Prevention
-International law and genocide
-Education and genocide prevention
-Holocaust and its representation
-Genocide in art, literature and film
-Colonial mass violence
-Cultural genocide and ethnocide
-Reconciliation, restitution and recognition
-Genocide denial
-Politics of apology
-Forms of remembrance and memory politics
-Climate change and mass violence
-Social origins of mass violence
-Genocide and the International Order
-Humanitarian interventions: chances and problems
-Gender and violence
- Late Ottoman population policy
- Soviet mass violence
- From Indonesia to Cambodia: genocides in Cold War Asia
- From Biafra to Darfur: mass violence in post independence Africa
In the 1st Conference were presented three papers for the genocide in Pontus.
1. Alexandros Kastrinakis, "From a constant growth to the denial of citizenship and to sudden extinction. The case of
Marsovan’s Armenians and pontian Greek in 1915 and 1921"
2. Euripides Georganopoulos, "The genocide of Greeks in Pontus (1914-1923): evidence from American sources"
3. Theofanis Malkidis- Ginerva Roli The genocide against the Greeks in Pontus
Scholars at the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence/The University of Sheffield/UK . Three papers on
Genocide in Pontus
Posted by Theofanis Malkidis
In December 2008 the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the UN ‘Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
the Crime of Genocide’ (1948). Politicians all over the world praised its achievements and the progress made so far in
the fight against genocide. And rightly so, as the achievements are many, mainly in the area of punishment and
mobilisation of public opinion. The Convention firmly rooted genocide in international law, which is increasingly
successful in bringing perpetrators of genocide to trial. Genocide as a crime is now also part of public consciousness
(at least in most parts of the world), and Non-Governmental Organizations in particular campaign tirelessly against
mass violence. The devotion of hundred of thousands to the cause of human rights and the rule of law warrants
recognition and applause.
Prevention, however has failed. If the people of Darfur, Chad, DR Congo or Zimbabwe, to name but a few, were invited to
the celebrations of the Convention, the world would get a rather grim picture. On almost all continents, people are
persecuted, expelled or killed because of their race, religion, gender or political affiliation. Collective violence,
whether organised and conducted by states or sub-state actors, is endemic in many regions, and despite all the human
rights rhetoric the international community closes its eyes or sits on its hands.
This failure, however, cannot only be blamed on political elites alone. Genocide Studies, as an academic discipline, is
responsible as well. The failure of the international community to develop effective mechanisms for prevention is
paralleled by academia’s seeming incapacity to critically reflect on the dilemmas of prevention as well as to develop new
theoretical approaches that escape the limitations of the control
paradigm (Oxford Research Group), which rests on the misleading and dangerous assumption that global security can
be guaranteed and threads controlled by military force rather than addressing the root causes of conflict. Traditional
ideas about prevention, which see genocide as a dysfunction of an otherwise working international political and
economic system that can be contained by policing, have not been developed further to offer satisfying answers to the
many challenges of the 21st
century, especially the relationship between global injustice and violence or environmental change and genocide, which
will in all likelihood drastically increase the occurrence of genocidal moments.
In order to address these pressing questions, the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS; www.inogs.com)
together with the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence (SGMV) at The University of Sheffield/UK (http:
//www.genocidecentre.dept.shef.ac.uk) will dedicate the 1st Global Conference on Genocide, to sustainable genocide
prevention for the 21st century. ‘Genocide: The Future of Prevention’.
Topics of particular interest included
the following:
-Prevention
-International law and genocide
-Education and genocide prevention
-Holocaust and its representation
-Genocide in art, literature and film
-Colonial mass violence
-Cultural genocide and ethnocide
-Reconciliation, restitution and recognition
-Genocide denial
-Politics of apology
-Forms of remembrance and memory politics
-Climate change and mass violence
-Social origins of mass violence
-Genocide and the International Order
-Humanitarian interventions: chances and problems
-Gender and violence
- Late Ottoman population policy
- Soviet mass violence
- From Indonesia to Cambodia: genocides in Cold War Asia
- From Biafra to Darfur: mass violence in post independence Africa
In the 1st Conference were presented three papers for the genocide in Pontus.
1. Alexandros Kastrinakis, "From a constant growth to the denial of citizenship and to sudden extinction. The case of
Marsovan’s Armenians and pontian Greek in 1915 and 1921"
2. Euripides Georganopoulos, "The genocide of Greeks in Pontus (1914-1923): evidence from American sources"
3. Theofanis Malkidis- Ginerva Roli The genocide against the Greeks in Pontus