Genocide History Resources
DEFINING GENOCIDE
Begin by reading the definition of "genocide" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) site and the more comprehensive description from the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the description from Genocide Watch, which includes a link to the 8 or 10 Stages of Genocide. We have put together some resources linked below, but we also encourage you to visit the USHMM's Genocide Timeline and Country Case Studies page, Yale University's Genocide Studies Program, the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive, and the University of Minnesota's Holocaust and Genocide Studies Resources page.
Cultural Genocide is a term that some people use to describe situations in which the identity of the people is targeted. Facing History and Ourselves has a helpful reading on this term. In July 2020, Fox News reported in a story on Tibet that the Dalai Lama named the situation there as an example of cultural genocide. See also the Indian Boarding Schools page of this website.
GENOCIDE HISTORY RESOURCES
Use the links below to learn about specific genocides. This is a work in progress begun in 2022. *US formally recognized genocide here
1904-1908
1915
Assyrian and Greek Genocides 1914-1922
EARLY WARNINGS - CONDITIONS THAT MAY LEAD TO GENOCIDE
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide has an Early Warning Project to detect the conditions that may lead to genocide. The regions and cases listed below are a sampling of places on the watchlist for highest risk. Similarly, Genocide Watch has a three-tiered system of alerts and a list of regions that are at risk.
