Genocide Studies Subject Guide
Welcome! This guide contains resources to support your research and learning about different genocides.
This page was last updated 06/11/2019
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Useful Databases
If you are accessing the SD36 online databases from home, see your teacher or teacher-librarian for the password. The following databases are recommended for this topic and can be accessed here:
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Academic Search Premier: Contains full-text peer reviewed journal articles, magazines and other resources.
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Gale Power Search: Access to multiple Gale Collections of journals and other reference materials. |
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Discovery Education Canada: Access to instructional videos, multimedia activities and articles. |
Useful Websites
United to End Genocide: An American activist association that is dedicated to ending and preventing genocides by creating awareness and demanding political action to prevent and end genocides. Contains information on past genocides, including Armenia, Cambodia and Rwanda, and also looks at regions in the world that are currently under risk.
Genocide Studies Program (Yale University): The Genocide Studies Program at Yale University conducts research and provides training to researches in regions affected by genocide. Contains case studies on various genocides, including genocides in the Amazon, Armenia, Cambodia, Timor, Guatemala, Rwanda and Sudan.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS): PBS is an American membership organization that uses video media to educate, inspire, entertain, and provide different perspectives. Type 'genocide' in the search field to access videos on genocide, including those in Rwanda, Sudan, and Armenia.
Genocide Watch: A non-profit organization that attempts to predict, prevent, punish and stop genocide and mass murders by raising awareness and encouraging action. It focusses primarily on current topics. One of the drop down menus contains information about the Eight Stages of Genocide.
Stand Canada: A Canadian youth-led activist association committed to ending genocide. Has a focus on current topics and includes information about how you can get involved.
Genocide Studies Program (Yale University): The Genocide Studies Program at Yale University conducts research and provides training to researches in regions affected by genocide. Contains case studies on various genocides, including genocides in the Amazon, Armenia, Cambodia, Timor, Guatemala, Rwanda and Sudan.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS): PBS is an American membership organization that uses video media to educate, inspire, entertain, and provide different perspectives. Type 'genocide' in the search field to access videos on genocide, including those in Rwanda, Sudan, and Armenia.
Genocide Watch: A non-profit organization that attempts to predict, prevent, punish and stop genocide and mass murders by raising awareness and encouraging action. It focusses primarily on current topics. One of the drop down menus contains information about the Eight Stages of Genocide.
Stand Canada: A Canadian youth-led activist association committed to ending genocide. Has a focus on current topics and includes information about how you can get involved.
Genocide in RwandaGenocide Archive of Rwanda: Website sponsored by the Aegis Trust, which is an organization dedicated to prevent genocide, and the Kigali Genocide Memorial, which is the final resting place of over 250,000 victims of the Rwandan genocide. Contains testimonies, articles, images, videos, and interactive maps.
Genocide in Rwanda (National Geographic): A three-part series that examines Rwanda after the genocide. |
Genocide in CambodiaConfront Genocide - Cambodia (US Holocaust Museum): This website provides an overview of events that led to and that unfolded during the Cambodian genocide.
Digital Archive of Cambodian Holocaust Survivors: Online exhibit of images and survivor accounts of peoples experiences under the Khmer Rouge regime. |
Holmodor (Ukranian Genocide)The Holodomor (Guided History): History research guide by Boston University. Provides a background and reference material (including links).
Holodomor Research and Education Consortium: This website is by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. The 'Research and Resources' drop down menu contains articles and primary sources. |
Nanjing MassacreNanjing Massacre Project (Yale University Library): Archival documents, videos and photographs by American missionaries who witnessed the Rape of Nanjing. Warning: graphic images
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