International Association of Genocide Scholars

The International Association of Genocide Scholars is a global, interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide, and advance policy studies on prevention of genocide. The Association, founded in 1994, meets to consider comparative research, important new work, case studies, the links between genocide and other human rights violations, and prevention and punishment of genocide. A central aim of the Association is to draw academics, activists, artists, genocide survivors, journalists, jurists, public policy makers, and other colleagues into the interdisciplinary study of genocide, with the goal of prevention. Membership is open to interested persons worldwide.

In July 2007, IAGS held its Seventh Biennial Conference, Responding to Genocide Before It’s Too Late Genocide Studies and Prevention, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conference was hosted by the University of Sarajevo's [http://www.inzl.unsa.ba/ Institute for Research into Crimes against Humanity and International Law] .

In 1997 the IAGS unanimously passed a formal resolution affirming the Armenian Genocide. However, professor Guenter Lewy, of the University of Massachusetts, an expert on the Holocaust, quotes that he is not impressed by this vote. He argues that the “great majority of these self-proclaimed experts on Ottoman history have never set foot in an archive or done any other original research on the subject in question.” [ [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/article.pdf?handle=com.commentarymagazine.content.Article::10022 Commentary magazine, February 2006, "Genocide?", page 8] ]

Bernard Lewis, a Jewish British-American historian known as the world's best recognized Islamic and Ottoman scholar cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing|title=Bernard Lewis|first=Martin|last=Kramer|authorlink=Martin Kramer|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn|location=London|year=1999|volume=Vol. 1|pages=pp. 719–720| url=http://www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/BernardLewis.htm| accessdate=2006-05-23] , also denies that an Armenian Genocide had ever occurred through his research on the controversial events. Lewis argued that:

Officers

*President, Gregory H. Stanton, PhD
*First Vice-President, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Ph.D
*Second Vice-President, Alex Hinton, Ph.D
*Secretary, Marc I. Sherman, MLS
*Treasurer, Jack Nusan Porter, Ph.D

Notes

External links

* [http://www.genocidescholars.org/ International Association of Genocide Scholars]