Genocide Prevention Initiative
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“Genocide & Mass Atrocities: Responsibility to Prevent,” (GPI) is a University of Oregon community initiative, and is one of the four signature programs sponsored by the Savage Endowment.
The Genocide Prevention Initiative (GPI) examines personal and political responses to mass atrocities from the perspective of numerous disciplines. It has been spearheaded by the University of Oregon School of Law’s Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center, in partnership with the Global Justice Program and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
The initiative aims to bridge scholarship and advocacy, while raising awareness, engaging the campus community, and encouraging action. It is inspired by the work of Dr. Paul Slovic, UO Professor of Psychology and internationally renowned scholar in the areas of decision research, psychic numbing, and apathy to genocide.
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(2014)In a great many situations where we are asked to aid persons whose lives are endangered, we are not able to help everyone. What do we then do? In a series of experiments, we first demonstrate that donors, in general, ...
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(PNAS, 2017-01-10)The power of visual imagery is well known, enshrined in such familiar sayings as “seeing is believing” and “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Iconic photos stir our emotions and transform our perspectives about life ...
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(Princeton University Press, 2013)The twentieth century is often said to have been the bloodiest century in recorded history. In addition to its wars, it witnessed many grave and widespread human rights abuses. But what stands out in historical accounts ...
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“Statistics Don’t Bleed”: Rhetorical Psychology, Presence, and Psychic Numbing in Genocide Pedagogy (JSTOR, 2011)Desperate to make present the unfolding Holocaust in central Europe, Arthur Koestler in a 1944 article in the New York Times Magazine grouped himself with the "screamers" who were unheard as millions were murdered in ...