Graduate Certificate in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

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Overview

In conjunction with the Department of Public Administration, I-GMAP offers the Graduate Certificate in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (GMAP), which will educate and train students in the current range of practices designed to identify populations or groups at risk of mass political violence, and to intervene to prevent or reduce the risk of such violence.

Open to graduate students in any discipline or department, the Graduate Certificate in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (GMAP) introduces students to the current range of practices designed to be prevention actors before, during and after mass atrocities, regardless of what academic discipline they are studying or what career path they choose. The Certificate consists of four courses (13-16 credits depending on course selection) in each of which students must earn a grade of B or better. The courses include one required course (4 credits) and three additional courses (3-4 credits each), one selected from each of three areas in consultation with one of the IGMAP Co-Directors. New courses are added to each of the categories every semester.

This course of study informs practice through the application of the latest scholarship in areas such as the quantitative analysis of at-risk communities; how factors such as gender, climate change, political transitions and population flows contribute to risks for genocide and mass atrocities; and the role of governments, civil society actors and international bodies in effective prevention.

Requirements

Foundations course (4 credits)

GMAP 500/PHIL 580K/PAFF 568, Essentials of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (generally offered every spring semester)

Historical Examples of Genocide and Mass Atrocity (3-4 credits)

One course from this category selected from an approved list which includes:

  • GMAP 502/PAFF 538C/HIST 501E, Comparative Genocide
  • COLI 531G, Colonization, Violence and Genocide
  • HIST 572C, Middle East Forced Migrations
  • HIST 500, Genocide and Mass Atrocity in Soviet History
  • HIST 530A, Issues: US History Before 1877
  • HIST 501U, History & Memory
  • HIST 531, Civil Rights and Anti-Apartheid
  • HIST 552F, Violence in Pre-Modern Era
  • HIST 572G Armenians & Kurds-Ottoman Empire
  • HIST 552F, Race in Trans/National History
  • ANTH 572G, Human Migration & Disease

Concepts, Actors and Institutions in Atrocity Prevention (3-4 credits)

One course from this category from an approved list which includes:

  • GMAP 504/PHIL 580D, Transitional Justice
  • PAFF 555/GMAP 503, International NGOs
  • PAFF 538A, Building Public Memory
  • PLSC 663W, Human Rights and World Politics
  • PLSC 663Q, Political Regimes & Transitions
  • AAAS 580I, Language Power & Meaning

Methods of Understanding Atrocities & Atrocity Prevention (3-4 credits)

One course from this category selected from an approved list which includes:

  • GMAP 501/PAFF 538B, Micro-Dynamics of Mass Atrocities
  • ANTH 572C, Anthropological Approaches to Human Rights
  • GEOL 552, Environmental Geophysics
  • PLSC 486A, Models of Violent Conflict
  • NURS 581G, Forensic Health of Victims
  • NURS 581F, Forensic Health of Offenders
  • NURS 581J, Forensic Pediatrics ANTH 518, Ethnographic Analysis
  • PAFF 548A/NURS 540, Elem Epidemiology & Biostatistics
  • PAFF 523, Introduction to Policy Analysis
  • GEOG 503A, Programming in GIS
  • GEOG 532, Introduction to Remote Sensing
  • ANTH 544, Methods in Forensic Anthropology
  • ANTH 572R, Epidemiology

The courses listed above are illustrative of courses which will fulfill the requirements. Additional classes may be counted with approval of one of the Co-Directors of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention. All certificate students must declare the intent to complete the certificate at least one semester before graduating, must be advised by one of the IGMAP Co-Directors, and must pay the Graduate School fee when registering for degree completion. For more information, contact Professor Kerry Whigham (kwhigham@binghamton.edu) or Professor Max Pensky (mpensky@binghamton.edu).

How to Enroll?

To enroll in the Graduate Certificate, please follow the instructions set out by the Graduate School for an Add-On Certificate.

Contact Us

For more information, please email us at: igmap@binghamton.edu

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