October 12, 2005
Barbara Harff to Deliver Lecture at Clark University About Genocide Prevention
WORCESTER, MA-“Can we prevent the next genocide?” Barbara Harff, proventus distinguished visiting professor, professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, will explore answers to this question in a lecture and discussion
at Clark University, at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 19, in the Kent Seminar Room of the Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne Street.
Professor Harff’s research emphasis is on risk assessment and early warning of genocides and politicides. She has written 40 theoretical articles, chapters, and monographs. Her recent publications include two books, “Ethnic Conflict in World Politics”(1994) and “Early Warning of Communal Conflict and Genocide: Linking Empirical Research to International Responses” (1996), both co-authored with T. R. Gurr.
Professor Harff's current research is concerned with testing sequential models of the causes and accelerators of ethnic warfare and humanitarian disasters. Since 1995 she has been a senior consultant to the White House State Failure Task Force, established to develop empirically-based early warning models of political crises. Recently she took the lead in the Task Force's analyses of the preconditions and accelerators of genocide and politicide.
This event is sponsored by the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception. For more information, contact 508-793-8897.
The mission of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is to educate undergraduate and graduate students about genocide and the Holocaust; to host a lecture series, free of charge and open to the public; to use scholarship to address current problems stemming from the murderous past; and to participate in the public discussion about a host of issues ranging from the significance of state-sponsored denial of the Armenian genocide and well-funded denial of the Holocaust to intervention in and prevention of genocidal situations today.
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
phone: 508-793-7635
www.clarku.edu
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