Three New (to Me) Internet Resources on Genocide

by Michelle . · 2009-11-15 15:15:00 UTC
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For all of the students of genocide and conflict out there, here are a few internet resources that I recently stumbled upon:

The Peace Media Clearinghouse is a collaboration between the US Institute of Peace and Georgetown University's Conflict Resolution Program. The easily-searchable Clearinghouse offers "multimedia materials that support conflict analysis and prevention, conflict resolution, and post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation," including items such as a documentary on child soldiers in the DRC and a computer game on nonviolent conflict management. You can search by country, region, language, subject, or type (photo, podcast, etc). The site even has an open-source element, allowing you to add or suggest new materials. (Hat tip: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.)

The Holocaust Collection, made possible by the US National Archives and the Holocaust Memorial Museum, allows users to search National Archive records, trace family trees, browse items looted by the Nazis from their victims, and read stories from the Holocaust Museum's collection of survivor testimony. The site also includes a interactive Google map of Nazi concentration camps.

Parts of the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence are still under construction, but the site already offers case studies, maps, scholarly reviews, theoretical papers, and more, all cross-referenced by place, chronology, and thematic issue. The Encyclopedia is the brainchild of scholars at the Center for International Research and Studies in Paris, and aims to be a comprehensive online database for all thing mass atrocity. (Hat tip: @goldlis.)

[Photo from lizzardo's Flickr stream, Creative Commons license.]

Michelle . has been involved in various activist endeavors, including the Teach Against Genocide pilot campaigns.
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