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Teacher Training
Past Events 

May 14, 2009 | Confronting Genocide: Response, Punishment and Prevention

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The workshop featured Australian human rights activist and lawyer Rebecca Hamilton.   In this seven-minute podcast “Chicago teachers on genocide education” you can hear about some of the challenges five teachers in Chicago face in teaching about genocide to their students.

Confronting Genocide

Thursday, May 14, 2009, 8:00a.m. – 3:00p.m.
Egan Urban Center, DePaul University

1 East Jackson, C-100, Chicago


Join noted human rights activist, author and attorney Rebecca Hamilton for a full-day, interactive workshop focusing on the history of genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Darfur, as well as an exploration of the universal response to justice, punishment and prevention of genocide.

Recently special assistant to the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and selected as a Global Young Leader on Genocide Prevention, Rebecca Hamilton was managing editor of the Harvard Journal of Human Rights and cofounder of the Darfur Action Group. Hamilton was involved in the formative stages of the Genocide Intervention Network and has worked with internally displaced populations in Sudan.
 
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