Never Again?: Genocide since World War II

This activity focuses on one of the main goals of Holocaust education worldwide:

The prevention of further mass murder and genocide through education. 

Your task:

Use the following template to examine an area of the world which has seen mass violence since 1945.  All of the directions and websites are linked for you, all you have to do is follow directions.

* For each of the websites, be sure to highlight the link and right click the mouse and "open in a new window."  Please do not simply click on the link.

First, please open up the "Never Again?" Word Document below.  Write your names on the top of the page.  You will be saving all your information and answers to the questions on this page.  (Don't forget to click "save as" when you are done!)

Never Again?

1.  As a team, please write your own definition of Genocide on your paper. 

2.  Visit www.genocidewatch.org.  Read over the eight stages of Genocide. On your Word document, please list the eight stages of Genocide and give a brief explanation of each stage.

3.  Please visit the link "genocide and politicides since 1945 with stages in 2006"  Answer questions 3,4,5 on the handout.

4.  As a team, please follow the link below and conduct your research on your assigned topic.  Answer questions 6-14 on the word document.  If you were given a number (1) please concentrate on Bosnia and Herzegovina.  (2) Rwanda (3) Pol Pot in Cambodia and (4) Stalin's Forced Famine

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/

If you were given a number (5) please follow this site to research the Sudan/Darfur conflict

5.  After you have finished researching and answering the questions, please click "Save as" and print out your research paper.

6.  Your last task is to do an independent search of the Internet.  Find a newspaper article or any additional information about your topic.  Print it out, write a two paragraph summary of the article, and staple it to your research paper. 

*Thanks for your help.  Part of education in the 21st century is the productive use of the Internet.  Projects like these are designed to do just that.  But it would not be successful without your cooperation.*