<p> 2020 Genocide Resistance Research Cluster (www.dornsife.usc.edu/2020-resistance)</p><p>Dornsife College, University of Southern California, Los Angeles</p><p>International Workshop:</p><p>Resisting the Path to Genocide: The Case of States and Societies</p><p>May 5 – 7, 2011</p><p>Keynote Luncheon</p><p>Resisting, Limiting, Decelerating, or Stopping Mass Violence: Historical Examples CHRISTIAN GERLACH</p><p>University of Bern, Switzerland</p><p>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.</p>