Events & Activities
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Stopping Genocide
February 8, 2012, 6:00 pm
Moot court, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 3644 Peel St. (Peel metro station)
The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre's Human Rights Committee, in collaboration with its partners, invites you to a panel discussion on different approaches to mobilizing international intervention in order to prevent and stop mass atrocities.
- A discussion moderated by Prof. Payam Akhavan
- With Kyle Matthews, Senior Deputy Director, The Will to Intervene Project, The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
- and Rebecca Hamilton author of Fighting for Darfur. Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
- Wednesday, February 8th at 6:00 pm
- at Faculty of Law, McGill University, Moot court
Stopping Genocide
Throughout history, indifference and inaction have allowed genocide and mass atrocity crimes to be perpetrated without interference or protest. The Holocaust, the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur, to name only a few, have seen the international community stand by while men, women and children were being massacred. The question of how such events could take place without rousing an effective intervention continues to haunt our world. What can we learn from past failures and successes? Are there lessons to be learned from prior experiences, or does each instance of genocide pose a unique set of problems?
The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre Human Rights Committee organises this event in partnership with McGill's Human Rights Working Group and Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.
