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UN Articles of Genocide

Understanding the articles defining Genocide and the Holocaust. Understanding UN
Resolution 260 A (III) December 09, 1948. The latest is Myanmar.

Human Rights Watch: Contemporary Updates

Current updates on Bosnia Herzegovina and contemporary conversations and issues in the region.

USHMM's Overview of Bosnian Genocide

During the conflict in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995, an estimated 100,000 people were killed. Approximately 80 percent of the civilians killed were Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks.

Reflections on Teaching Social Violence in an Age of Genocide

With an anthropological emphasis, this features structures of inequality and various forms of social violence. Genocide, racialization, and structural poverty are included.

IWitness USC Shoah Foundation

This is an amazing resource for the Holocaust as well as each of the other genocides in this resource bank. Users need to create an account. They will then gain access to a wealth of materials for learning and teaching.

Summary of United Nations Case on Genocide

The overview and the language of the case concerning the application of the convention and prevention of Genocide "CASE CONCERNING APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA v. YUGOSLAVIA (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO)"
Order of 13 September 1993

Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur

Author Ben Kiernan examines outbreaks of mass violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on worldwide colonial exterminations and twentieth-century case studies including the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin’s mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides. He identifies connections, patterns, and features that in nearly every case gave early warning of the catastrophe to come: racism or religious prejudice, territorial expansionism, and cults of antiquity and agrarianism. ISBN: 9780300144253

The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective

Focusing on the twentieth century, this collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analysis of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide; the victims of Stalinist terror; the Holocaust; and Imperial Japan. Contributors explore colonialism and address the fate of the indigenous peoples in Africa, North America, and Australia.

Toward the Understanding and Prevention of Genocide

From a 1984 conference, the first major gathering of its type on this topic.  This book brings together transcripts of the round table discussions from the historic International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide and emphasizes proposals for the prevention of future acts of genocide. ISBN: 9781000003260

History Channel Overview of Bosnian Genocide

In April 1992, the government of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslavia. Over the next several years, Bosnian Serb forces, with the backing of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army, perpetrated atrocious crimes against Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Croatian civilians, resulting in the deaths of some 100,000 people (80 percent of them Bosniak) by 1995.

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