Join Professor Brian Schiff, Director of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention for an information session on the Schaeffer Student Fellowship. Applications for the fellowship are due February 10, 2016.
Mission StatementThe mission of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention is to promote innovative research, curricula and pedagogies leading to the deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of genocide and mass violence.
As France’s first host of the complete Visual History Archives of the Shoah Foundation (a collection of over 53,000 testimonies in 39 languages from 62 countries of survivors and witnesses to the Shoah and the Armenian, Rwandan and Nanjing genocides), The American University of Paris will make this important resource available to researchers, teachers and students for the purpose of investigating and disseminating new insights into the origins of collective hatred, fundamentalist ideologies, discrimination and mass violence as well as the aftereffects of these in historical, social and individual memory.
Our goal is to foster scholarly convocation, in France and internationally, via conferences, lectures, and publication, on the ways that individuals, communities and governments can respond to the challenges of extreme violence in the service of enduring peace and understanding.