To mark the seventieth anniversary of the UN Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Norwegian Holocaust Center in Oslo is organizing an international interdisciplinary conference. Financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the conference aims to further our understanding of genocide and mass-atrocity prevention.

Topics include the relationship between law and politics; the rhetoric of genocide; non-state perpetrators of genocide; comparative research about causes of mass violence and implications for prevention; tools for prevention including early warning and R2P; and case studies of effective de-escalation of violence.

Find the Complete Conference program here.

Keynote speaker:

Professor William A. Schabas is professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also professor of international human law and human rights at Leiden University, emeritus professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland Galway and honorary chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and invited visiting scholar at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Politiques).

Watch day one of the conference here.

Watch day two of the conference here.