Tuesday, October 30
4:15 p.m.
C-103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies

The 20th century enjoys the macabre distinction of being the most violent in human history, with genocide occupying a central place in this gruesome history.  This talk will present a theory of the causes of modern genocide by looking at societal cleavages, radical political ideologies, profound crises, and the role of “moral bystanders.”  It examines these factors through a discussion of four cases:  Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, and Rwanda.     
 
Ernesto Verdeja teaches political theory in the department of government at Wesleyan University. His research interests are in justice, international human rights law, reconciliation, and comparative genocide, as well as critical theory and contemporary democratic theory. He has published on theories of forgiveness, truth commissions and tribunals, reparations, comparative genocide, and the rights of non-citizens after 9/11, and has edited works on civil society in Cuba and transitional justice.  

Verdeja has worked at the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.  This year he is a postdoctoral scholar at Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. While at Notre Dame, he is completing a book manuscript on political reconciliation and beginning a project on comparative genocide (Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, and Rwanda). He received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 2005.

All are welcome.

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