Canadian Students Try To Understand Genocide

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I like this program, this should be in every private and public university in Canada and the US.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...924&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

Trying to understand genocide (by Carol Goar)

There could scarcely be a grimmer way to spend a summer vacation than to study the worst atrocities of which humanity is capable.

Yet every August, top students from around the world come to the University of Toronto for a two-week course called Genocide and Human Rights. Its aim is to equip young scholars to do what no generation has yet achieved: turn the words "Never Again" into a reality.

Since the world made that solemn vow in 1948, it has failed to prevent ethnically motivated slaughters in Cambodia, Burundi, Bosnia, Iraq and Rwanda. It is now watching impotently as thousands of Darfuris are murdered in western Sudan.

This year's class, which holds its final session today [Friday], is a fascinating group. There are three Rwandans, two of whom lost parents in the genocide of 1994. There is a Tanzanian lawyer who has set up a voluntary organization to train human rights monitors. There is an Iranian expatriate, struggling to understand how people can turn on their neighbours. There are grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and great-grandchildren of Armenians whose families were almost wiped out in the massacre of 1915. And there are Canadian and American students, searching for a way to reconcile what they've learned with the butchery they see in the world.

What they share is a willingness to look squarely into the face of evil and an impatience with stock answers.

Let me take you into their classroom earlier this week.
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