Essays & Articles by Amy Fagin
Arts-Based Pedagogy in Genocide Studies and Prevention: Re-Imagining Curriculum Dispelling Old Parameters and Instilling New Paradigms
Arts-based teaching strategies in genocide studies are rapidly reaching a globally influential threshold. A growing body of pioneering courses and inspiring arts encounters have contributed to arts and aesthetics based public interfaces and pedagogical initiatives around the world.
Sri Lanka: The Art of National Dialogue and Reconciliation
I had the distinguished honor of participating as a delegate at the three-day WINGS International Conference on Arts and Reconciliation, held in the capital city of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Witnessing Argentina’s 40 Year Legacy of Truth, Justice and Memory
Tomorrow, the 25 of August, the Dia de la Sentencia arrives in Cordoba where the “Mega Causa” trials against state terrorism completes its hearings. The lexicon of democracy in Argentina begins with a capital “D.”
Bangladesh: The Journey from Genocide to Justice and Prevention
At 40,000 feet, flying from Dhaka to Dubai the Himalayan Mountain Range stretches from horizon to horizon, like a row of perfect white teeth in the cosmic mouth of Krishna. This parting vista seems a fitting farewell to my extraordinary journey into the educational aperture of the Second Winter School of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice.
Genocide Scholars Review: The Fifth International Conference on Genocide: Bangladesh and the Pursuit of Justice
We, the delegates attending the Fifth International Conference on Genocide, arrived at Dhaka International Airport to beautiful bouquets of flowers and swarms of hungry mosquitos. Fortunately for the international visitors, the mosquitos showed a distinct preference for dining at the airport.
Nyange, Rwanda: A Deeper Reflection
Our driver, Didier, grumbled as we labored our way up to the knoll to where Nyange Church is located, the site of a uniquely grizzly massacre during the ’94 genocide. We took a jumpy turn onto a red dust road and arrived at the quiet, and closed, memorial site.
Book Review: Native America and the Question of Genocide
In the book’s concluding paragraph, scholar and historian Paul Bartrop is given the last word on the warrant of portraying the accuracy of the complex atrocities perpetrated against the native populations of America. This and future generations are the bearers of this responsibility, and to whom this effort matters most.
African Union Human Rights Memorial Project: Herculean Task, Heroic Contestants
“Monumental” is not too grand a description of the task put before the working groups invited to the Third Consultative Meeting of the African Union Human Rights Memorial at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa.
Prisoner Without A Name
This past weekend, my husband and I were dining with local and international friends. My local guest looked at me incredulously, asking: “Who is Chelsea Manning?”
Book Review: War, Genocide and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work
For Cambodian Americans, the challenges of identity, as individuals and community, whose recent past embodies the societal fragmentation and the trauma of war, genocide and relocation is the raw material for “memory work” in Cathy J. Schlund-Vial’s publication War, Genocide and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work.
Lighting a Torch for Olympiad of Justice: Attorney General of Guatemala Claudia Paz y Paz
Guatemalan Constitutional Court’s ruling that Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz is obliged to step down ignited my indignation, concern and interest in the details of the apparent and overt injustice of this “official ruling.”
Vandalism of Aleppo
As I sit in the comfort of my home office, I have to admit to you that I have not had the opportunity to visit Aleppo. Today, a Google Image search of Aleppo brings up obliterated city blocks and buildings.