Genocide prevention and engaged scholarship

By Sarah King Head. It is entirely apt that Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, should be the recipient of a UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention – especially since it was there that the man who coined the term ‘genocide’, Raphael Lemkin, taught law in the 1950s. Professor Alex Hinton, director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and newly inaugurated UNESCO chair, agrees. More...