Totten Invited to Address Congressional Caucus on Armenian Genocide
Posted on 4/17/2009
University of Arkansas professor Samuel Totten, an internationally known genocide scholar, has been invited to speak to the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues on Capitol Hill.
Totten, a professor of curriculum and instruction, will speak April 22 at the caucus' 2009 Armenian Genocide Observance in Washington.
This year will mark the 94th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the systematic annihilation of more than 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children during the first genocide of the 20th century. According to the invitation, Totten was invited because he is "an esteemed scholar and champion of protecting human rights." The program will highlight the unprecedented U.S. diplomatic, political and humanitarian response to the Armenian genocide and focus on efforts today to properly reaffirm this crime against humanity and end the cycle of violence seen today in places such as Darfur, Sudan.
Totten has written extensively about genocide and is currently writing a book about the genocide in Darfur and completing a book of interviews with survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Rwanda last year and helped to establish a genocide studies graduate program at the National University of Rwanda. He was also a member of a U.S. State Department-sponsored team that investigated atrocities in Darfur, leading then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to apply the term genocide to the situation.
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