2020 Genocide Resistance Research Cluster (

2020 Genocide Resistance Research Cluster (www.dornsife.usc.edu/2020-resistance)

Dornsife College, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

International Workshop:

Resisting the Path to Genocide: The Case of States and Societies

May 5 – 7, 2011

Keynote Luncheon

Resisting, Limiting, Decelerating, or Stopping Mass Violence: Historical Examples CHRISTIAN GERLACH

University of Bern, Switzerland

Christian Gerlach, the Author of several internationally acclaimed and discussed books on the Holocaust, argues that mass violence originates from popular participation alongside with government policies. The emergence, but also the decrease of violence is based on differing and shifting group interests and coalitions. Case studies will include Nazi German policies and the mass slaughters in Indonesia 1965-66.