Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide

The James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship is partnering with the Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Committee (GLHRC) for a Holocaust Remembrance event on April 16.

“Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide”
Dr. James Waller, Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice, University of Connecticut
Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2024, 5:30 PM, Fowler Auditorium, Stewart Center

Speaker Dr. James Waller will focus on the current risks facing us and our role in responding. Waller is the inaugural Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice at the University of Connecticut. At UConn, he also directs the Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs for the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute and is a Professor of Literatures, Cultures, Languages, and Human Rights. In addition, he is a Visiting Scholar at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of six books, most notably his award-winning Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing, Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide, and A Troubled Sleep: Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland.

Ackerman/Holocaust Remembrance: https://education.purdue.edu/ackerman-center/programs/glhrc/
GLHRC: http://glhrc.org/