Message-ID: <003b01be9711$cfb5f800$db5aaccf@client5> Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 12:10:32 -0400 From: BJ Cameron <mailto:bjaly@erols.com> Subject: The Seven Stages of Genocide-Tulane Seminar To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
****************Invitation to a seminar****************"The Seven Stages of Genocide"
Tulane Institute for International Development (TIID) invites you to its May Seminar under the 1999 Tulane International Development Seminar Series.
Speaker: Dr. Gregory Stanton
THE SEVEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE Genocide has seven stages or operational processes. Each stage reinforces the others. A strategy to attack genocide should attack each stage, each process. The seven stages of genocide are classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, identification, and extermination. Classification is the "us vs. them" stage. Symbolization includes naming and yellow stars. Dehumanization turns ordinary human classification into genocidal vilification: labeling people as vermin or cockroaches. Organization is the collective stage of genocide which is always carried out by groups, usually with the support of the state. Polarization carries a society downward in a whirlpool of killings that drives out the moderate center. Identification is the stage of death lists, maps, and house marking. Extermination is the "final solution." At each of these stages, specific counter-steps can be taken to stop the genocidal process, steps that can be promoted by both local and international institutions. These targets for intervention will be discussed in detail at the presentation.
Time & Date: The seminar will commence at 5.30 p.m. and end at 7.00 p.m. on Wednesday May 26th
Venue: Tulane Institute for International Development 901 N. Stuart Street, Suite 1100 Arlington, Virginia 22203 (Ballston Metro; Street parking, and parking in 901 North Stuart available)
This seminar is free and open to all, if you would like to attend the seminar: RSVP is required by Monday, May 24th Telephone: (703) 243-0871 or e-mail: mailto:mmotoya@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
About the Speaker: Dr. Gregory Stanton has studied and worked against genocide for over twenty years. He is an international lawyer with a J.D. from Yale Law School, a cultural anthropologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Oberlin College. He has been a law professor at Washington and Lee and American Universities, a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Ivory Coast, and a relief program field director in Cambodia. Dr. Stanton founded the Cambodian Genocide Project at Yale in 1982, drafted the U.N. Security Council resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and is the founder of Genocide Watch. Currently he is the Coordinator of the Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court for the World Federalist Association in Washington, D.C. and is Director of the Campaign to End Genocide, an international coalition of human rights, educational, legal, religious, and civic groups dedicated to preventing genocide.
*******M.Sc. and Ph.D. Programs in International Development******* Those interested in the Masters Program in Applied International Development and the interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program conducted at the Washington area (Arlington, VA) campus of Tulane University, will be able to meet members of the Tulane Faculty. You can also get more information on these programs by visiting our web site http://payson.tulane.edu/mad/