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From Sparta to Darfur: A Long History of Genocide

Ben Kiernan
Case Study(ies):
Other
Publication Type: Other

United States Holocaust Museum

Addressing the security risks of anti-Roma hate speech on social media platforms

MADE Working paper series

Pavlina Pavlova
Case Study(ies):
Other
Theme(s):
Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era (MADE)
Publication Type: Working Paper

Pavlova, Pavlina. “Addressing the security risks of anti-Roma hate speech on social media platforms.” Yale University Genocide Studies Program: Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era Working Paper #4, February 2023.

This paper examines online hate speech and the associated security risks by focusing on user-generated content (UGC) targeting Roma and related moderation standards, tools, processes, and practices. The Romani people have experienced systemic racism, discrimination, and hostility across countries. These negative attitudes are perpetuated, broadcast, and intensified in the online space in the form of hateful and racist speech or incitement to violence and genocide. The paper illustrates cases of anti-Roma narratives and their translation into the online realm while mapping their harmful impacts on the Romani communities and individuals. These observations are instrumentalized to examine the challenges and tensions that platforms encounter in moderating online content. It is proposed that AI-based detection tools are integral to tackling hate speech, but due to the highly contextual nature of hateful content and its differentiated risks, they are unfit for being the exclusive means for decision-making. Content moderation models can be effective when implemented holistically with each layer extending the security and compensating for the limitations of the other. Social media providers must follow a victim-sensitive approach to tackle the asymmetric threats that hate speech presents to minority, marginalized, and other vulnerable groups.  

An Archive of Murders Past

The Economist
Case Study(ies):
Other
Theme(s):
Justice & Prosecutions
Publication Type: News Article

(2007) Economist Sept. 27

An Assessment of Two Atrocity Risks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2023

GSP Working Paper Series

Kathryn Hemmer
Case Study(ies):
Other
Theme(s):
Prevention
Publication Type: Working Paper

Hemmer, Kathryn. “An Assessment of Two Atrocity Risks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2023” Yale University Genocide Studies Program Working Paper Series #39, 8 May 2023.

An assessment of two plausible mass atrocity scenarios that could develop in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) before or following the 2023 DRC general election; how the United States and other actors can take preventive action to prevent such large-scale civilian casualties. 

Blood and Soil: the global history of genocide

Ben Kiernan
Case Study(ies):
Other
Publication Type: Other

(2007) openDemocracy Oct. 11

Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts

eds. Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons
Case Study(ies):
Other
Publication Type: Book

Routledge; 3 edition (September 28, 2008)

Digital Archive of Memorialization of Mass Atrocities (DAMMA) Workshop Whitepaper

MADE Working Paper Series

Bultmann, Daniel; Mykola Makhortykh; David Simon, Roberto Ulloa; Eve M. Zucker.
Case Study(ies):
Other
Theme(s):
Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era (MADE)
Publication Type: Working Paper

Bultmann, Daniel, Mykola Makhortykh, David Simon, Roberto Ulloa, & Eve M. Zucker. (2022). “Digital Archive of Memorialization of Mass Atrocities (DAMMA) Workshop Whitepaper.” Yale University Genocide Studies Program: Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era Working Paper #3.

This whitepaper addresses the prospect of creating a digital archive for the memorialization of mass atrocities (abbreviated herein as DAMMA). It is based on the proceedings of a virtual workshop held in October 2021 that addressed questions regarding the scope, form, usages, and development of such an archive.

Digital Archive of Memorialization of Mass Atrocities (DAMMA) Workshop Whitepaper

MADE Working Paper Series, #3

Daniel Bultmann, Mykola Makhortykh, David Simon, Roberto Ulloa, Eve M. Zucker
Case Study(ies):
Other
Theme(s):
Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era (MADE)
Publication Type: Working Paper

Bultmann, Daniel, Mykola Makhortykh, David Simon, Roberto Ulloa, & Eve M. Zucker. (2022). Digital Archive of Memorialization of Mass Atrocities (DAMMA) Workshop Whitepaper. Yale University Genocide Studies Program: Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era Working Paper #3.

This whitepaper addresses the prospect of creating a digital archive for the memorialization of mass atrocities (abbreviated herein as DAMMA). It is based on the proceedings of a virtual workshop held in October 2021 that addressed questions regarding the scope, form, usages, and development of such an archive.

Grappling with the Concept of Genocide

GSP Working Paper No. 9

Curtis W. Lambrecht
Case Study(ies):
Other
Theme(s):
Genocide, general
Publication Type: Working Paper
Hitler, Pol Pot, and Hutu Power: Distinguishing Themes of Genocidal Ideology

Ben Kiernan
Case Study(ies):
Other
Publication Type: Other

The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Program