94372 - Violence, Genocide And Intervention Instruments

Learning outcomes

During the XX century, violence and genocides have affected millions of innocent civilians, sometimes with the aim of eliminating, totally or partially, groups of populations. The course aims to provide the knowledge to analyze these forms of violence and to interpret the various methods of intervention prepared to provide official recognition to the victims as well as to reach the reconciliation of the parties in conflict. At the end of the course, the student has critical and multidimensional analysis skills of multiple historical contexts related to situations of violence and genocide.

Course contents

The course will be divided into two parts:

• introductory part (methodology and analysis perspectives)
• analytical part (Armenia, Soviet Russia, Shoah, Cambodia, ex-Yugoslavia, Rwanda)

in order to:

• recognize and analyze the genocides of the XX century;
• describe the main and most significant relationships that exist between historical factors, forms of violence and possible means of intervention;
• illustrate the category of genocide in the light of the transformations introduced by national and international organizations;
• give a critical account of the methodologies used to analyze violence, genocides and intervention tools in the Contemporary age.

Readings/Bibliography

PART 1: INSTITUTIONAL PART OF THE SYLLABUS

Attending students have to study lessons and this book:

B. Bruneteau, Il secolo dei genocidi, il Mulino, 2005

Non attending students have to study:

B. Bruneteau, Il secolo dei genocidi, il Mulino, 2005

ASSESSMENT/EARLY WARNING TOOLS Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes (https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/publications-and-resources.shtml)

PART 2: MONOGRAPHIC PART OF THE SYLLABUS

All the students have to chose a book from the list below:

A

Lewy G., Il massacro degli armeni. Un genocidio controverso, Einaudi, 2006

Flores M., Il genocidio degli armeni, Il Mulino, 2006

B

Conquest R., Raccolto di dolore. Colletivizzazione sovietica e carestia terroristica, Liberal edizioni, 2004 (from p. 57 to p. 380)

Dolot M., Les affamés. L'holocauste masqué - Ukraine 1929-1933, Paris, 1986

C

Engel D., L’Olocausto, il Mulino, 2015

Confino A., Un mondo senza ebrei. L'immaginario nazista dalla persecuzione al genocidio, Mondadori, 2017

D

Chaumeau C., Panh R., S-21. La macchina di morte dei khmer rossi, O Barra O, 2011

Short P., Anatomia di un genocidio. Pol Pot e i crimini dei Khmer rossi, Res Gestae, 2020 (Chapters 1-6)

S21, La macchina di morte dei Khmer rossi. Cambogia, dentro lo sterminio (dvd+book)

E

Prjevec J., Le guerre jugoslave 1991-1999, Einaudi, 2014 (Prologo, Chapters 3-4 or Prologo, Chapters 5-6 + lessons slides on Virtuale)

S. Morton J., Craig Nation R., Forage P., Bianchini S. (eds.), Reflections on the Balkan wars: ten years after the break up of Yugoslavia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

F

Braeckman C., Ruanda. Storia di un genocidio, Strategia della lumaca, 1996

Fusaschi M., Hutu–Tutsi. Alle radici del genocidio ruandese, Bollati Boringhieri, 2000

Teaching methods

During the course, powerpoint slides will be made available to students

Assessment methods

All students are requested to pass an oral exam.

Due to the pandemic situation the exam methods could change.

Teaching tools

powerpoint slides

Office hours

See the website of Simona Salustri