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Facing History and Ourselves will be hosting an online forum from 20 February through 7 March to discuss how individuals, communities, nations, and international organizations seek justice in the aftermath of mass violence and genocide.
Teachers, students and community members will be joined online by Richard Goldstone, Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and a Justice for South Africa's Constitutional Court; Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, psychologist, activist, and associate professor of psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and author of A Human Being Died that Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness; Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, and founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University; and Martha Minow, Harvard University School of Law, member of the Kosovo Commission, author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness.
Facing History and Ourselves bills itself as "an international, professional development organization which engages teachers and students of diverse background in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry".
The organization is currently developing a web-based, interactive module that explores transitional justice processes, including prosecutions, truth commissions, coexistence initiatives, reparations, and efforts at healing.
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