Agenda


 * What is justice? **
 * //When we look at history of contemporary international human rights, where do we begin?//**
 * //How do we define international human rights? Are there “international” human rights? How and when are they established and protected? How do international human rights connect/compete with issues of national sovereignty?//**
 * //How have ideas around international human rights developed from the Armenian genocide to contemporary//** **//issues of ICC, UDHR, truth commissions…?//**

Thinking about seminar as modeling the lessons/journey teachers will do with their students, as well as adult learning experience. Some teachers/teacher teams may consider this in relation to restorative justice exploration at their school site.

__Monday__ 2:00 – 7:00

2:00 INTRODUCTIONS (45 min) - Mary Why THIS seminar, this pairing – what to expect this week – Include Transitional justice as part of story about why Facing History explored into this area Taner Akcam clip Quick go-around of participants Logistics Contracting 2:45 IDENTITY (45 min) - Mary Poetry (session description attached) 3:30 COMMUNITY-BUILDING (45 min) - Fran Community-building (on this day, but not necessarily this time – may be interwoven into next activities) Questions – sharing something from identity that was shaped by history, something shaped by choices Artifact sharing? - something from your or your family's history

4:15 WHAT IS JUSTICE? (75 min) - Fran //What is justice? What feels like justice?// Note: Sara Terry's video is a nice one to highlight our spending more time in this seminar on the AFTER war part of the scope and sequence Journal 5:30
 * //Aftermath Project – Armenian images, “Memory Denied”//
 * intro to international justice - terms? What comes to mind when think about these big ideas? (terms – or questions above) – could come back to later in the week.
 * begin word web for justice? (to continue throughout the week)

6:00 DEVELOPMENT OF NOTIONS OF WE AND THEY (60-75 min) - Mary Armenians underOttoman Empire Jigsaw/Document Analysis Establishing context of long history of 2nd class citizenship Conditions/critical elements which lead to predispositions which will enable/allow genocide to take place

EXIT CARDS HW: Read Hovannisian article

__Tuesday__ 2:00 – 7:00

2:00 CONNECTIONS

2:15 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW (75 min) Historical intro – Hovannisian

3:30

3:45 YOUNG TURKS (75 minutes) - Mary Rise of Young Turks/Nationalism – rise of nationalist movements Include "10 commandments" and public posting (private orders and public appearances - evidence analysis) up to April 24? include "Ideology" include timeline - differentiation between massacres and genocides in one of the above sessions NOTE: depending on what Dr. H focuses on, will collapse evidence or rise of Young Turks.

5:00

5:30THE SIGNIFICANCE OF POLITICS (60 min) - Fran What does it mean for this to come at the hands of a dictator?

How decisions are made under different political systems/environments? – pausing for minute to consider foundational content that builds greater fluency with understanding how decisions are made, opportunity for residents/citizens. Acknowledging teachers have this information, students may not. Will be good foundation for ICC understanding later in week. Word wall? Particular reading? Pre-reading? (Look for understanding of political systems within participants’ conversation on first day – may bring new things into this conversation if it will be helpful.)

background students will need Surprising/Interesting/Troubling journal "Dictating Religion" clip from "Worse than War" reading on sovereignty from Lemkin guide much discussion

6:30 NEWS OF THE GENOCIDE ABROAD (30-45 min) - Mary Newspaper Headlines NOTE: can collapse this into gallery walk next day if tight on time.

EXIT CARDS

__Wednesday__ 2:00 – 7:00
 * Individual Choices during Genocide**

2:00 CONNECTIONS

2:30 UNDERSTANDING THE GENOCIDE (30 minutes max) - Mary Gallery Walk of images Big Paper 3:00 SURVIVOR VOICE (75min) - Fran Survivor Testimony Twenty Voices Genocide in Me written testimonies from iWitness Armenian Golgotha

Found poem? preparing to hear a survivor 4:15 RANGE OF CHOICES (60 min) - Mary perpetrator, bystander, upstander - focus on readings from case study book

5:15 <dinner?

5:45 ARTISTIC PROCESSING (75 min) - SARA TERRY Artistic processing? Artistic expression photography might take pictures earlier in the week EXIT CARDS

__Thursday__ 2:00 – 7:00 Theme of day - renewing justice? postwar justice? confronting injustice? - defining justice and rights, with respect to national sovereignty

2:00 CONNECTIONS starting with creations from day before?

2:30 INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION (75 min) - Mary Human Barometer Particular focus on American individuals extra time on Morgenthau? Pre-reading as Wed. HW on Morgenthau?

3:45 JUSTICE "ACHIEVED"? (60 min?) - Mary Armenian Trials – pull from Dadrian new book? – link with issues of denial? Revisit idea of nation-building/nationalism - development of national myth Include Sologman Tehlirian May include peace and justice theme Maybe journaling on tj prompt – if you’ve been wronged, what would you want to have happen to set things right? End with intro of TJ module (link to Sara)

4:45 5:15 one block - Confronting Injustice: Lemkin and Beyond

LEMKIN - CONFRONTED WITH INJUSTICE (60 min?) - Fran Session on Lemkin? Link to UN as international body and tool? Genocide Convention

NUREMBERG AND BEYOND - THE USE OF TRIALS (60 min?) - Fran Nuremberg How does Cold War environment impact issues of international justice - Dachau trials - UDHR (could be pulled out as separate session) Cold war politics? - different national perspectives on the significance of Nuremberg Big idea of the day: How are these things become cornerstone in ideas around international justice

EXIT CARDS

__Friday__ 8:30 – 3:30 What is our obligation today? Organize sessions around structures? - international organizations/institutions (UN, ICC, NGOs…) and separate session around action within a nation OR thematic? – justice denied, justice and peace, ctp How far we’ve come – how far we still need to go?
 * __Tools of making change__** as theme this day

Tools they learn about Thursday and Friday can be used in exploring any case of injustice (memorials and trials - Thursday, truth-seeking, reconciliation, institutional change) "Better Angels of our Nature" book - at lower point of injustices than every have been because institutions have been established.

complicating our notions of justice

8:30 CONNECTIONS Where are you sitting with ideas of justice - intellectually and emotionally - at this point in the week?

9:00 PAMELA to start the day (by Skype) Finding our own voice Every Memory Matters campaign Role or power of media social justice media

10:15 INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE - Mary ICC - Reckoning Granito balance between "big" and "small" changes “justice and peace” Reckoning module from ICC?

11:45

12:15 TRUTH-SEEKING - Fran HW ahead of time? chapter from "Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and Challenge of Truth Commissions" (Hayner) TRCs mention South Africa TRC/Facing the Truth? (but that won't be focus)

1:45 CHOOSING TO PARTICIPATE (75 min) - Mary - bring in Darfur Now - individual possibilities - revisit Aftermath project? power of image? International Lawyer? - include Reporter or excerpt? What CAN an international community do – at time or after? Worse than War – mention as resource

3:00 EVALUATIONS/NEXT STEPS

3:30 end of day