TOTTEN INVITED TO ADDRESS CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
University of Arkansas Daily Headlines
April 16 2009
University of Arkansas professor Samuel Totten, an internationally
known genocide scholar, has been invited to speak to the Congressional
Caucus on Armenian Issues on Capitol Hill.
Totten, a professor of curriculum and instruction, will speak April
22 at the caucus’ 2009 Armenian Genocide Observance in Washington.
This year will mark the 94th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the
systematic annihilation of more than 1.5 million Armenian men, women
and children during the first genocide of the 20th century. According
to the invitation, Totten was invited because he is "an esteemed
scholar and champion of protecting human rights." The program
will highlight the unprecedented U.S. diplomatic, political and
humanitarian response to the Armenian genocide and focus on efforts
today to properly reaffirm this crime against humanity and end the
cycle of violence seen today in places such as Darfur, Sudan.
Totten has written extensively about genocide and is currently writing
a book about the genocide in Darfur and completing a book of interviews
with survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He received a Fulbright
Fellowship to study in Rwanda last year and helped to establish
a genocide studies graduate program at the National University of
Rwanda. He was also a member of a U.S. State Department-sponsored
team that investigated atrocities in Darfur, leading then-Secretary
of State Colin Powell to apply the term genocide to the situation.