Article on Genocide to be featured in Human Rights Review

PanARMENIAN.Net - “Educating a New Generation: The Model of the ‘Genocide & Human Rights University Program,’” an article by Dr. Joyce Apsel, will be featured in the forthcoming issue of the prestigious Human Rights Review, describing and analyzing this innovative, higher education course, The Armenian Weekly reported.

The journal is known for providing a forum where human rights issues and their underlying theoretical and philosophical foundations can be developed and debated. It publishes articles and essays from all academic areas and addresses the many human rights issues that concern, or ought to concern, the world today.

Joyce Apsel is a historian and attorney. She is also the founder and director of the non-profit Rights Works International, a former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), the current president of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, and a faculty member of the Genocide and Human Rights University Program (GHRUP) - a course conceptualized and organized by the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (IIGHRS), a division of the Zoryan Institute - for the past nine years. Her 2010 article, “Darfur: Historic Processes and Regional Dynamics,” received the Outstanding Article Award from the Peace, War, and Conflict section of the American Sociological Association.

Commenting on the significance of the article, Prof. Herbert Hirsch, professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University, a renowned specialist on genocide prevention, an editor of Genocide Studies & Prevention, and one of the distinguished faculty members of the GHRUP, stated, “It is so rewarding to see that the GHRUP continues to gain recognition as it develops a critical network of students and scholars worldwide who are informed, aware, and active when it comes to genocide research, publication, education, and prevention. This growing network fostered by the GHRUP creates a ripple effect of mobilized disciples, worldwide, all working towards a common goal - genocide prevention.”