Genocide Studies and Prevention; a new journal

Zoryan Institute Launches New International Journal on Genocide

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As part of its continuing effort to integrate the Armenian Genocide into world genocide studies, the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (A Division of the Zoryan Institute), chaired by Dr. Roger W. Smith, announces the co-founding and joint publication of a new journal, Genocide Studies and Prevention, in partnership with the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), headed by Dr. Israel W. Charny. The journal?s first issue, Summer 2006, published through a partnership with the University of Toronto Press, is available now.

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“Genocide Studies and Prevention, as a peer-reviewed journal, was established to fulfill several goals at the same time,” remarked Dr. Smith, a founder of IAGS.? “First, as the official journal of the IAGS, its mission is to understand the phenomenon of genocide, create an awareness of it as an ongoing scourge, and promote the necessity of preventing it. Second, as an initiative of the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, it is intended to help stimulate, educate and develop new generations of scholars to engage in research and provide an academic forum on genocide. Third, it is hoped that it will educate government policy-makers, as well as the general public, on why and how genocide occurs so that they may be persuaded to use all of their influence to prevent genocide, or at least intervene if it is already taking place,” he concluded.

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The first issue of this inter-disciplinary journal is devoted to the genocide in Darfur. It features articles written by such noted experts as award-winning author Ren? Lemarchand; Samuel Totten, who served as an investigator on the US government?s Darfur Atrocities Documentation Team; legal experts Kelly Dawn Asking and Jerry Fowler; Political Science Professor Scott Straus; and Major Brent Beardsley, who served as General Rom?o Dallaire?s personal staff officer in the UN peace-keeping mission in Rwanda in 1994 and was an eye-witness to the genocide there.

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The second issue, which is already in press, will be devoted to the Armenian Genocide and will have many distinguished contributors, including Taner Ak?am, Vahakn Dadrian and Roger W. Smith. Subsequent issues will be devoted to such themes as the Genocide in Rwanda, Genocide and International Law, and Genocide and Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples.

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Israel W. Charny, President of IAGS stated that, “Today, one can look with some satisfaction on the increasing emergence of scholarship and the scientific study of genocide, and therefore one may also dare to begin to think of the possibilities for preventing genocide. It is for these reasons that we are especially pleased to see the synergies of our relationship with the IIGHRS, with whom we share a deep commitment to the study and genocide of all peoples, in the establishment of this new journal.”

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Genocide Studies and Prevention is published three times a year. Subscriptions are $50.00 per year, but a discount is available for the first year. For more information, contact the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (Zoryan Institute), [email protected], Tel: 416-250-9807.

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Source: PRESS RELEASE

International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies

Zoryan Institute

17 August 2006

Contact Person: Torrey Swan

TEL: 001-416-250-9807