Enclosure 4 Schedule of Lessons for XH 415 – Genocide and “Ethnic Cleansing”

AY14-01 Block I

Theory of Genocide & “Ethnic Cleansing” LSN DATE SUBJECT 1 20 Aug Introduction. Armenia, America, and the Origins of Genocide

READING: Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell (New York: Harper, 2001), 1-30 [31].BB

2 22 Aug Lemkin’s Struggle – the Genocide Convention

READING: Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell, 31-60 [30].BB. Raphael Lemkin, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, selections from Ch. IX “Genocide,” parts I-III Available at: http://www.preventgenocide.org/lemkin/AxisRule1944-1.htm The Genocide Convention, found at: http://www.genocidewatch.org/genocide/genocideconvention.html

**Guest Lecture/Discussion Leader – MAJ Shane Reeves, USMA Department of Law 3 26 Aug Theory of Genocide – a Sampling

READING: Benjamin Lieberman, “From Definition to Process, The Effects and Roots of Genocide,” in Adam Jones, ed. New Directions in Genocide Research (London: Routledge, 2012), 5-18 [10].BB Ervin Staub, Overcoming Evil. Genocide, Violent Conflict, and Terrorism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 51-60 [10].BB; Gregory Stanton, “The Eight Stages of Genocide,” Genocide Watch PPT (May 2008) – click here, go to the bottom of the page and download the PowerPoint “List of Risk Factors for Genocide” and “List of Special Circumstances” in Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, Compilation of Risk Factors and Legal Norms for the Prevention of Genocide (NY: JBI, 2011), 2-6 [5]

4 28 Aug Genocide Theory – Differentiating and Making Policy READING: Scott Straus, “Identifying Genocide and Related Forms of Mass

Atrocity…” US Holocaust Memorial Museum working paper, 7 Oct 2011[29]

5 30 Aug CLASS DROP – READING/RESEARCH DAY REQUIRED FILM: Worse than War (Dir: M. DeWitt & Daniel Goldhagen, 2010) SUGGESTION: WORK ON YOUR PROJECT IDEAS 6 4 Sept Theoretical Approaches to Genocide READING: Maureen S. Hiebert, “Questioning Boundaries. What’s old and what’s

new in comparative genocide theory,” in Joyce Apsel and Ernesto Verdeja, Genocide Matters. Ongoing Issues and Emerging Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2013), 16-41 [20].BB

**Proposal - Choice of outreach assignment/response paper due (Syllabus, Enc 1)

7 6 Sept Genocide & Modernity READING: Eric Weitz, “The Modernity of Genocides. War, Race, & Revolution in

the Twentieth Century” in Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, eds., The Specter of Genocide. Mass Murder in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), 53-73 [20].BB

8 10 Sept Rape, Gendered Violence & Genocide DEAN’S HOUR CLASS – MEET IN WH 5326

READING: Roger W. Smith, “Genocide and the Politics of Rape,” in Joyce Apsel and Ernesto Verdeja, Genocide Matters. Ongoing Issues and Emerging Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2013), 82-105 [19]; selections from Janie L. Leatherman, Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011), 11-20 [9].BB.

**Guest Lecture – Eugenie Mukeshimana, Founder and Executive Director, Genocide Survivors Support Network (GSSN)

9 12 Sept The Economics of Genocide – Genocide as Rational Choice READING: Charles Anderton, “Choosing Genocide: Economic Perspectives On The

Disturbing Rationality Of Race Murder,” Defence and Peace Economics, 21: 5 (2010): 459- 486 [27] BB Don’t worry – you don’t need to understand the math – I don’t. Dr. Anderton may send a more easily understood working paper.

**Guest Lecture – Dr. Charles Anderton, Professor of Economics, College of the Holy Cross

10 16 Sept Ethnic Cleansing – Origins and Implications READING: Philipp Ther, “A Century of Forced Migration: The Origins and

Consequences of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’,” in Philipp Ther and Ana Siljak, eds., Redrawing Nations. Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-48 (Lanham: Rowan & Littlefield, 2001), 43-72 [20].BB

**Proposal - Choice of research project/research paper due (Syllabus, Encl 2)

11 18 Sept Ethnic Cleansing as a Function of the Nation-State READING: Jennifer Jackson Preece, “Ethnic Cleansing as an Instrument of Nation-

State Creation: Changing State Practices and Evolving Legal Norms,” Human Rights Quarterly 20: 4 (1998): 817-842 [33].BB

12 20 Sept Democracy and Ethnic Cleansing – A Sociological Perspective READING: Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy. Explaining Ethnic

Cleansing (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2005), 1-33 [33].BB ** Guest Lecture/Discussion Leader – LTC John Hagen, USMA Department of Social

Sciences 13 24 Sept Ethnic Cleansing – An Anthropological Perspective READING: Pamela Ballinger, “Cleansed of Experience?” in Alexander Hinton &

Kevin O’Neill, eds., Genocide. Truth, Memory, & Representation (Duke UP, 2009), 278-316 [36]. BB

**First peer participation evaluation

Block II Theory of Perpetration, Bystandership, Resistance & Rescue

LSN DATE SUBJECT 14 26 Sept The Psychology of Perpetration – DEAN’S HOUR CLASS

READING: Daniel Chirot & Clark McCauley, “Psychological Foundations,” in Chirot and McCauley, Why Not Kill Them All? (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), 51-94 [44].BB James Waller, “The Ordinariness of Extraordinary Evil: The Making of Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Killing,” in Olaf Jensen and Klaus-Richard Szenjmann, eds., Ordinary People as Mass Murderers (Houndsmill, England: Palgrave, 2008), 145-164 [17].BB

Recommended: James Waller, Becoming Evil. How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing, 2nd ed (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007), 33-41 [7].BB

**Guest Lecture - Dr. Jim Waller, Cohen Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College

15 30 Sept The Psychology of Rescue and Active Bystandership READING: Adam Jones, Genocide, a Comprehensive Introduction, 2nd ed (London:

Routledge, 2011), 402-412 [10].BB Ervin Staub, Overcoming Evil. Genocide, Violent Conflict, and

Terrorism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 391-399 [8].BB

Lee Ann Fuji, “Rescuers and Killer-Rescuers in the Rwandan Genocide” in J. Semelin, C. Andrieu & S. Gensburger, eds., Resisting Genocide. The Multiple Forms of Rescue (NY: Columbia UP, 2010), 145-57 [13].BB

16 2 Oct Genocide and Morality

READING: Ernesto Verdeja, “Moral Bystanders and Mass Violence,” in Adam Jones, ed. New Directions in Genocide Research (London: Routledge, 2012), 153-168 [13].BB

** Guest Lecture/Discussion Leader – MAJ Danny Cazier, USMA Department of English and Philosophy

17 4 Oct Resistance & Gender – a thought piece READING: Nechama Tec, “Reflections on Resistance and Gender,” in John Roth and

Elizabeth Maxwell, eds., Remembering for the Future (Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), 552-569 [14].BB

18 8 Oct Heroes & Villains – History, Politics & Genocide Representation READING: Linda Melvern, “Hotel Rwanda – without the Hollywood Ending,” The

Guardian (17 November 2011, US edition). Saskia Houttuin, “Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina - Hero or Villain?” All

Africa [Radio Netherlands Worldwide] (27 January 2012), 1-2 [2] REQUIRED FILM: Hotel Rwanda (Dir.: Terry George, 2004) Recommended RADIO BROADCAST: The Rusesabagina Controversy at Upfront Africa

(Voice of America, 16 November 2011). 19 10 Oct WPR READING: All previous

Block III

Case Studies, Small and Large 20 14 Oct Genocide of Native Americans – the Yana of California READING: Ben Madley, “The Genocide of California’s Yana Indians,” in Samuel

Totten and William S. Parsons, eds, Centuries of Genocide. Essays & Eyewitness Accounts, 4th ed (London: Routledge, 2013), 17-53 [33].BB

Recommended: Ben Kiernan, “Genocide in the United States,” in Kiernan, Blood and Soil (New Haven: Yale UP, 2007), 313-363.BB

**Introductory paragraph and annotated research bibliography due for research papers and projects.

21 16 Oct Military Cultures, Colonialism & “Final Solutions” READING: Isabel Hull, “Military Culture and the Production of ‘Final Solutions’ in

the Colonies: The Example of Wilhelmenian Germany,” in Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, eds., The Specter of Genocide. Mass Murder in Historical Perspective (Cambridge UP, 2003), 141-62 [22].BB

22 18 Oct Armenia – the Basics READING: Rouben Adalian, “The Armenian Genocide” in Samuel Totten & William

S. Parsons, eds. Centuries of Genocide. Essays & Eyewitness Accounts, 4th ed. (London: Routledge, 2013), 117-135 [18].BB

Hilmar Kaiser, “Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire,” in Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010), 365-385 [21].

23 23 Oct Armenia – History, Evidence and the Voices of Survivors READING: Donald Miller and Lorna Miller, Survivors (Berkeley: University of

California, 1999), 78-90 [13].BB

Rouben Adalian, “The Armenian Genocide” in Samuel Totten & William S. Parsons, eds. Centuries of Genocide. Essays & Eyewitness Accounts, 4th ed. (London: Routledge, 2013), 141-51 [11].BB

REQUIRED FILM: Voices from the Lake (Dir: J. Hagopian, 2003) **Second peer participation evaluation 24 25 Oct Armenia – Cultural Destruction DEAN’S HOUR CLASS – MEET IN Mahan Hall, Arnold Auditorium

READING: Ara Sarafian, “The Absorption of Armenian Women & Children into Muslim Households as a Structural Component of the Armenian Genocide,” in Omer Bartov & Phyllis Mack, eds. In God’s Name. Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century (New York: Berghahn Books, 2001), 209-217 [8] BB; Peter Balakian, “Raphael Lemkin, Cultural Destruction, and the Armenian Genocide,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 27, 7 (Spring 2013): 57-89 [39] PROJECT MUSE

**Guest Lecture, Dr. Peter Balakian, Colgate University

25 29 Oct Armenia – Histories and Controversies – Understanding Denial READING: Ronald Suny, “Writing Genocide,” in R.G. Suny, F.M. Göçek & N.

Naimark, eds., A Question of Genocide. Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011), 15-41 [27] BB;

Guenter Lewy, The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey. A Disputed Genocide (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2005), 245-257 [12].BB

26 31 Oct Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing – The Radical Reordering of Central and

Eastern Europe. READING: Norman Naimark, The Fires of Hatred. Ethnic Cleansing in the

Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001), 108-138 BB

27 4 Nov RESEARCH AND PROJECT CONSULTATIONS/PRESENTATIONS READING: None 28 6 Nov The Cambodian Genocide READING: Adam Jones, Genocide, a Comprehensive Introduction, 2nd ed. (London:

Routledge, 2011), 283-309 [26].BB

29 8 Nov Cambodia, part II

REQUIRED FILM: Enemies of the People (Dir: R. Lemkin & T. Sambeth, 2009) ** Guest Lecture – Dr. Rick Ruth, Department of History, United States Naval Academy

**FULL DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER DUE FOR PEER REVIEW. 30 13 Nov Ethnic Cleansing and the Remaking of Bosnia – Geopolitics, Space, the

Body and the Making of Difference READING: Gerald Toal and Carl T. Dahlman, Bosnia Remade. Ethnic Cleansing and

Its Reversal (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011), 3-19 [17].BB Lynda Boose, Crossing the River Drina: Bosnian Rape Camps, Turkish Impalement, and Serb Cultural Memory,” Signs 28,1 (Autumn 2002): 71-96 [24].BB

**BEGIN MONITORING NEWS SOURCES ON CENTRAL AFRICA/DRC 31 15 Nov Genocide in Darfur – the Basics READING: Samuel Totten, “Genocide in Darfur, Sudan,” in Samuel Totten and

William S. Parsons, eds, Centuries of Genocide. Essays & Eyewitness Accounts, 4th ed (London: Routledge, 2013), 513-556 [43].BB

RECOMMENDED FILM: The Devil Came on Horseback (Dir.: Annie Sundberg & R. Stern, 2007) You will also be required to go to a 5 December 2013 lecture by Brian Steidle, the former Marine Captain featured in The Devil Came on Horseback.

** PEER REVIEW DUE.

32 19 Nov Darfur – Genocide or Ethnic Cleansing – Does it Matter? READING: René Lamarchand, “Unsimplifying Darfur,” Genocide Studies and

Prevention, 1,1 (July 2006), 1-12 [10]; Mahmud Mamdani, “The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency,” The London Review of Books 29, 5 (8 March 2007): 5-8 [4].BB

**19 Nov NLT CLASS - Deadline for instructor read of revised research paper.

33 21 Nov Rwanda – the Basics - CLASS DROP – Compensatory Time/Pf. Frey TDY

REQUIRED FILM: The Ghosts of Rwanda (Dir: Greg Barker, 2004). For additional resources on Rwanda, see the Frontline/PBS website http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/

34 25 Nov Rwanda – A Study in Military Leadership

READING: Sarah Devonshire, “The True Measure of Success: The Leadership of Roméo Dallaire in the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda,” Genocide Studies and Prevention 7, 2-3 (Summer/Winter 2012), 184-203 [18].

REQUIRED FILM: A Good Man in Hell (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Committee on Conscience). Part 1 (13 minutes) required, part 2 (88 minutes) recommended.

**Third peer participation evaluation

35 27 Nov Rwanda and the Central African Wars p1 – CLASS DROP - READING READING: Jason Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters (NY: Public Affairs,

2012), 1-90 [87]. **FINAL DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER/PROJECT DUE 36 3 Dec The Central African Wars p2 READING: Jason Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters (NY: Public Affairs,

2012), 93-141 [46]. 37 5 Dec The Central African Wars p3 - CLASS DROP – READING READING: Jason Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters (NY: Public Affairs,

2012), 143-266 [122]. **Dean’s Hour guest lecture on Darfur (TH 144) – Brian Steidle 38 9 Dec The Central African Wars p4 READING: Jason Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters (NY: Public Affairs,

2012), 267-304 [36]. 39 11 Dec The Central African Wars p5 READING: Stearns, 303-326 [23]; Skim MARO. Mass Atrocity Response Operations Handbook

(Cambridge: Harvard, 2010). Download the Handbook at http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/programs/mass-atrocity-response-operations/publications/military-planning-handbook

39a 12 Dec TABLE TOP EXERCISE, PHASE 1 – JOINT CLASS WITH HI 345 COMM’S HOUR or EVENING JOINT MEETING – Room TBD READING: “Democratic Republic of Congo Situation Assessment” US Army War

College Peacekeeping and Security Cooperation Institute (August 2013) [40].

Skim Appendix B, “Mass Atrocity Response Operations,” in Peace Operations, JP 3-07.3 (01 August 2012), B1-B10. (annex B begins on page 87).

40 13 Dec COMPENSATORY CLASS DROP