Pre-Genocide Conference

In late September 2018, Humanity in Action Denmark hosted the ‘Pre-Genocide Conference: An international conference on the road to the Holocaust and other Genocides’ in Sinatur, Lyngby, Denmark. Participants and experts came from four continents to discuss the period leading up to the Holocaust as well as the Genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Iraqi Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia. What are the lessons learned? Is the world better prepared today?

Conference Programming included

• Holocaust and later Genocides: My Father’s Lesson, Chief Rabbi Emeritus Bent Melchior
• Pre-Genocide: Germany, Denmark, and the League of Nations, Facilitator: Adam Holm, Ph.D. and Journalist; Prof. Dr. Ulrich Herbert, Historian, University of Freiburg; Bent Blüdnikow, Historian; Cecilie Stokholm Banke, Danish Institute for Human Rights
• During Conflict and after Genocide, Facilitator: Samuel Rachlin, Writer and Journalist; Peter Vedel Kessing, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for Human Rights; Frederik Harhoff, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern Denmark
• Pre-Genocide: Four cases after the Second World War, Facilitator: Anette Marcker (writer & journalist)
  Alexander Hinton (Professor, Rutgers University | Cambodia) Joost Hilstermann(P.h.D., Director, International Crisis Group | Anfal, Iraqi Kurdistan), Assumpta Mugiraneza (Social Psycologist, Director, Iriba Centre | Rwanda) and Edina Becirevic (Professor, University of Sarajevo | Bosnia and Herzegovina)