Genocide Awareness Conference at NSU to Explore Homosexual Conflict, State-Sponsored Torture, and More

FT. LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – Gregory H. Stanton, J.D., Ph.D., the founder of Genocide Watch, will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural conference on Genocide Awareness held by  Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Institute for Genocide Awareness & Applied Research (IGAAR) on April 9 and 10.

Facilitated by Jason Campbell, Ph.D., NSU assistant professor of conflict resolution and philosophy and founder and executive director of IGARR, the two-day conference will be held on NSU’s main campus at 3301 College Avenue in Davie. The conference is FREE, open to the public and will feature presentations, panel discussions, and speakers.

Stanton, who is also the founder and chair of the International Campaign to End Genocide, is credited with drafting the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Burundi Commission of Inquiry, and the Central African Arms Flow Commission. He is also the past president (2007-2009) of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

The conference schedule is as follows:

 Friday, April 9 – Maltz Psychology Building – Room 2057

• 1-3  p.m.- Homosexual Conflict: Transitioning into Genocide

Dustin Berna, Ph.D., NSU assistant professor of conflict resolution and political science. Berna’s specializations include Middle Eastern politics, Islamic fundamentalism, religious extremism, social movements, terrorism, and political institutions

• 3-6 p.m.- State-Sponsored Torture and the Effect for Those Who Survive

Abigail Alexander, director of Research and Training at Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services & Mark Cassini, national training specialist at the Florida Center for Survivors of Torture.

• 6-7 p.m.- Genocide Trials and Resolutions: The Path from Impunity to Recognition

Hannibal Travis, Ph.D., assistant professor of law at Florida International University. He teaches and conducts research in the fields of cyberlaw, intellectual property, antitrust, international and comparative law, and human rights. 

Saturday, April 10 – Carl DeSantis Building – Room 1124

The keynote address “Never Again, or Again and Again?” will be given Saturday, April 10, at 5:15 p.m.

Additional seminars and panel discussions throughout the day will include:

• Terrorism Discourse: A Comparative Essay of Terrorism and Colonialism – Yesterday Victim, Today Perpetrator
• America’s Corporate Sponsorship of the Holocaust: The Greed Effect
• Color Washing Personhood: An Impetus to Genocide
• Catharsis: The Battle of the Selves, Analyzing the Function of Genocide from a Bottom-Up Approach
• Crosses, Contestation, and Concentration Camps: Spirituality, Historical Revisionism, and Responses to Genocide
• Evil in Conflict from an Evolutionary Perspective
• Women and Genocide: The Convenient Target
• Explorations of Gender Portrayal and Genocide in Art
• Genocide: A Natural Product of Evolving Ideologies
• Ritual Abuse: Holocaust Against Humanity
• The Paradox of Indiscriminate Warfare: The Battle of Fallujah and the Charge of Genocide

For further information about the conference please contact Jason Campbell, Ph.D., IGAAR founder and faculty in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) at SHSS at 954-262-3035 or  jc2017@nova.edu.  For more about IGAAR please go to: http://www.igaar.org.

Media Contact:
Felecia Henderson, NSU Office of Public Affairs
954-262-5315 (office), 954-383-4695 (cell), fhenders@nova.edu