International Institute for Genocide
and Human Rights Studies
A Division of the Zoryan Institute
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Published peer-reviewed articles
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Contributing scholars to Genocide Studies International Journal
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GHRUP graduates from over 73 countries
Charles
GHRUP Graduate
I have learned, I have re-learned, & I have unlearned... and I have gotten more than I ever thought I could get from the course, particularly in terms of teaching pedagogy.
Teresa
GHRUP Graduate
It is a really great opportunity to get to know so many different types of people, to get to know things about countries you never knew. I don't feel like the learning stops in the classroom; I get to learn from my new friends every day.
Phillibert
GHRUP Graduate
I was in the 2008 cohort and am a lecturer and researcher at the University of Rwanda. The GHRUP stimulated me to continue in research and education on genocide. Now I teach the comparative history of genocide, and I hope to come back to Toronto as a lecturer for the GHRUP!
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Danjiel
GHRUP Graduate
Some of the discussions that we had forced me to reconsider some of the positions I had held before, and to think about my field and the topics that I am interested in, in greater depth.
Kim
GHRUP Graduate
Going to Toronto and meeting people from all over the world was a wonderful experience. I find that genocide is such a useful framework to have while watching the news these past however many years. Once you’re aware of dehumanization and other key terms, you can’t look at the world in the same way.
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Naomi
GHRUP Graduate
The program for me was amazing, because I come from Israel, where you only mainly study Holocaust studies."
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"I was so excited to hear about all these different kinds of genocide and to see what I had missed out on, as well as what I had learned successfully.
Joyce Apsel
Course Director
The GHRUP is the most exciting educational initiative that I have been a part of. Teaching is a privilege. Teaching such wonderful students at the Institute every summer, and bringing in these specialists, is really extraordinary and always the hallmark of my year.
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Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Former Faculty Member
You get a wonderful bunch of people willing to take two weeks out of their Summer to think about a horrific topic, but the GHRUP does it in such a way that it creates an overall feeling of great shared humanity, which is, of course, uplifting.