AZG Armenian Daily #157, 19/08/2006
Armenian Genocide
ZORYAN INSTITUTE LAUNCHES NEW INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON GENOCIDE
As part of its continuing effort to integrate the Armenian Genocide
into world genocide studies, the International Institute for Genocide
and Human Rights Studies (A Division of the Zoryan Institute) (IIGHRS),
chaired by Dr. Roger W. Smith, announces the co-founding and joint
publication of a new journal, Genocide Studies and Prevention, in
partnership with the International Association of Genocide Scholars
(IAGS), headed by Dr. Israel W. Charny. The journal’s first issue,
Summer 2006, published through a partnership with the University of
Toronto Press, is available now.
"Genocide Studies and Prevention, as a peer-reviewed journal, was
established to fulfill several goals at the same time," remarked
Dr. Smith, a founder of the IAGS. "First, as the official journal of
the IAGS, its mission is to understand the phenomenon of genocide,
create an awareness of it as an ongoing scourge, and promote the
necessity of preventing it. Second, as an initiative of the IIGHRS,
it is intended to help stimulate, educate and develop new generations
of scholars to engage in research and provide an academic forum
on genocide. Third, it is hoped that it will educate government
policy-makers, as well as the general public, on why and how genocide
occurs so that they may be persuaded to use all of their influence
to prevent genocide, or at least intervene if it is already taking
place," he concluded.
The first issue of this inter-disciplinary journal is devoted to
the genocide in Darfur. It features articles written by such noted
experts as award-winning author Rene Lemarchand; Samuel Totten, who
served as an investigator on the US government’s Darfur Atrocities
Documentation Team; legal experts Kelly Dawn Asking and Jerry Fowler;
Political Science Professor Scott Straus; and Major Brent Beardsley,
who served as General Romeo Dallaire’s personal staff officer in the
UN peace-keeping mission in Rwanda in 1994 and was an eye-witness to
the genocide there.
The second issue, which is already in press, will be devoted to the
Armenian Genocide and will have many distinguished contributors,
including Taner Akcam, Vahakn Dadrian and Roger W. Smith. Subsequent
issues will be devoted to such themes as the Genocide in Rwanda,
Genocide and International Law, and Genocide and Ethnocide of
Indigenous Peoples.
Israel W. Charny, President of IAGS stated that, "Today, one can look
with some satisfaction on the increasing emergence of scholarship and
the scientific study of genocide, and therefore one may also dare to
begin to think of the possibilities for preventing genocide. It is for
these reasons that we are especially pleased to see the synergies of
our relationship with the IIGHRS, with whom we share a deep commitment
to the study and genocide of all peoples, in the establishment of
this new journal."
Genocide Studies and Prevention is published three times a
year. Subscriptions are $50.00 per year, but a discount is available
for the first year. For more information, contact the IIGHRS (Zoryan
Institute), admin@genocidestudies.org, Tel: 416-250-9807.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress