The Politics of Fear Archive: EPIIC Symposium

The Dark Side of Humanity: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing | February 26, 2006

Irwin Cotler
Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Canada; Member of Parliament, Canada; Head, Canadian Delegation to the Stockholm International Forum on Genocide; Former Chair, Parliamentarians for Global Action, Canada; Former Special Adviser on the International Criminal Court, Minister of Foreign Affairs; International Human Rights Lawyer who has served as counsel to Nelson Mandela, Jacobo Timmerman and Andrei Sakharov, among others

Introduction and Presentation of Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Elizabeth Yates

Benjamin Lieberman
Author, Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe and From Recovery to Catastrophe; Professor of History, Fitchburg State College

John Moore
Head of Field Office Central Region for the IFES Election Violence Education and Resolution (EVER) project; EVER is a USAID-funded effort to monitor and evaluate election violence to inform design and implementation of community-level conflict resolution programming

Amara Nickerson
Senior, Tufts University; EPIIC Colloquium Member; she conducted research in Guatemala for EPIIC over winter intersession

Ervin Staub
Professor of Psychology, Trauma, Research, Education, and Training Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Author, The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence

Introduction and Presentation of Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Lauren Shields, EPIIC Colloquium Member

Moderators
Nimrod Hashinovsky and Mark Sy, EPIIC Colloquium Members