Co-Sponsorship Annual Meeting 2024

Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit

Call for Proposals

For a co-sponsorship, we welcome proposals that engage in discussions about genocide in the context of the 30th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide. Proposals can include one or more of the following:

  • Narratives and commemorations of genocides in Rwanda and Africa.
  • The role of Western powers in the genocides "in the margins."
  • Comparison and relations between genocides at "Centers" and in the "Margins."
  • Interrogation peacebuilding and/or reconciliation in the Global South.
  • The legacies of western colonialism in the genocides in Africa.
  • The opportunity/problems of comparisons between the genocide in Rwanda and other genocides.
  • Afro-American thought and genocides in the Caribbean and Africa.
Chair Mail Dates
Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame aomer1@nd.edu - View
Benjamin Sax bsax@icjs.org - View
David Tollerton d.c.tollerton@exeter.ac… - View
Santiago H. Slabodsky santiago.slabodsky… - View
Review Process: Participant names are anonymous to chairs and steering committee members during review, but visible to chairs prior to final acceptance/rejection