The Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights (CGCHR) is a non-profit organization based at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. It seeks to enhance the understanding of genocide, political violence, and protracted conflict and related mechanisms for their prevention and resolution. With an interdisciplinary faculty of over 40 distinguished scholars from all three Rutgers campuses, and support from an internationally renowned advisory board and network of affiliated scholars/ professionals the center has a broad base of partnerships across the United States and the globe. CGCHR is led by founder and Executive Director Alex Hinton, Director Aldo Civico

Aldo Civico

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, and Associate Director Nela Navarro.

International

With a wide range of international partners in Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, England, Norway, Rwanda, as well as a transnational partnership, the CGCHR focuses its programs across the world building cooperation through international relationships.

Local/Domestic

The center has partnerships with the American Mideast Leadership Network, The Darfur Rehabilitation Project (Newark, NJ), Genocide Watch (Washington DC), the Institute for the Study of Genocide (John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York), and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. In addition, the CGCHR works with various Rutgers based partners across the three campuses in Camden, New Brunswick, and Newark.

Programs

Programs, each with specific projects, focus the center’s studies for genocide prevention, promoting global citizenship, conflict resolution, global engagement, human rights, 21st century challenges, civil resistance, and a US-Mideast dialogue program.

Initiatives

• Against Forgetting: The Genocide and Human Rights Literacy Initiative
• The Latin America Consortium Initiative
• The Reforming Globalization and Promoting Rights Initiative
• Local Justice Initiative

Further Reading/Publications

"Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights" book series, Rutgers University Press: Piscataway, NJ. (series editors: Alexander Laban Hinton, Stephen Eric Bronner, Nela Navarro, and Aldo Civico).

Hinton, Alexander Laban. Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local realities after Genocide and Mass Violence, Rutgers University Press: Piscataway, NJ. 2010.

Logos: a Journal of Modern Society & Culture http://www.logosjournal.com/

External links

• http://cghr.newark.rutgers.edu/index.html