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Global Consortium on Bigotry and Hate

Across the globe, bigotry and hate are on the rise – not just in places like Russia, Syria, or Myanmar but also in Europe and the United States, where anti-Semitic, xenophobic, and white nationalist attacks have taken place with increasing frequency. In part because of their broad scope, discussions of bigotry and hate are often highly general and experience distant. Less attention has been paid to how state, sub-state, and regional actors have both come to understand these phenomena and developed strategies to prevent them.

The Global Consortium on Bigotry and Hate (2019-2025) fills this critical gap by bringing together scholars and practitioners from across the globe to discuss local manifestations of and responses to bigotry and hate. To this end, each consortium partner is hosting a conference on bigotry and hate that brings the consortium partners together with local scholars and practitioners to consider new ways of confronting bigotry and hate. While each partner determines the structure of and goals for the conference they host, the partners jointly work on research, education, outreach, and scholarship projects on bigotry and hate.

Podcast Series on Global Consortium
Hosted by Mdu Ntiuli, Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre

JHGC In Conversation with Alexander Hinton & Nela Navarro
February 1, 2023 (also on Sound Cloud)

Global Forums

The Global Consortium on Bigotry and Hate convenes annual forums that bring together scholars and practitioners from around the world to discuss local manifestations of and responses to bigotry and hate.

Consortium Outcomes

Lecture Series

Consortium Partners

 

Documentation Center of Cambodia PIR

Since its inception in 1995, the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) has been at the forefront of documenting the myriad atrocities of the Khmer Rouge era. Focusing on memory and justice, DC-Cam seeks to help Cambodians discover the truths upon which a genuine national reconciliation depends. As a major source of information about Cambodia’s genocide for academics, lawyers, journalists and the general public in Cambodia and abroad, DC-Cam is respected around the world and supported by sponsors, scholars and experts in the USA, Europe, Asia and Canada.

DC-Cam’s Public Information Room at Rutgers University was set up in 2005 in order to collect and disseminate information on Khmer Rouge history, with a particular emphasis on assisting the Cambodian North American community. This office also: serves as a reciprocal exchange between DC-Cam and Rutgers students and faculty; facilitates internships/externships at DC-Cam for Rutgers students; presents research and training opportunities for Rutgers students and faculty; and collaborates in exhibitions, conferences, and seminars.

  Critical Transitional Justice

Since the coining of the phrase in the late 1990s, “transitional justice” has become a buzzword, embraced by scholars and practitioners alike. Hundreds of books and articles, chapters as well as several research institutes, and a journal have been dedicated to its analysis. Mechanisms of transitional justice have come to be seen as integral to the promotion of the rule of law the world over. Given this flurry of activity, and its far-ranging real-world effects, the Critical Transitional Justice project, a transatlantic partnership between three institutions of higher learning, will evaluate the theory and practice of transitional justice in a comprehensive, critical, and broadly interdisciplinary fashion. The project’s approach is decidedly critical—and thus markedly different from existing approaches to the study of transitional justice. This project, which will consist of three workshops during the 2017-18 academic year – one in the New York area, one in London, and one in Amherst, MA – culminating in the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice in 2018.

Partner Institutions


Amherst College – Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought


London School of Economics – Department of International Relations


Rutgers University – Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights

Workshops

Forthcoming in 2023
Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice

December 15-16, 2017
Transitional Justice Genealogies
London School of Economics

April 14, 2018
Rethinking Transitional Justice
Rutgers University

May 5, 2018
Critical Transitional Justice
Amherst College