April is the Cruelest Month: Genocide Memory and the End of “Never Again”

Lecture: “Will Our Children Say ‘Never Again’ and Mean It? Lessons from the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the Struggle to End Humanity‘s Worst Crime”

Moderator: Professor Abraham J. Peck

Featured Speaker: Dr. Jean-Damascène Gasanabo , former Director General of the Research and Documentation Center on Genocide at the Rwanda National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) and former consultant to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCR), Geneva, Switzerland

Followed by a panel discussion by members of those communities who commemorate their genocides in April: “What does the genocide against my community mean to me?”

Paul Proudian: Armenian genocide
Abraham J. Peck: Holocaust
Marpheen Chann: Cambodian genocide
Yvette Gisele Unezase: Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi
El-Fadel Arbab: Darfurian genocide