Conference Themes
June 28, 2021, 4:31 p.m.

Conference themes:

The first theme: Genocide, its concept and principles, and the importance of Early Warning.

The Second theme: The Memory of Genocide: Historical Approaches

The third theme: The genocide in Kurdistan

  • Mass killing
  • Ethnic cleansing
  • Forced displacement
  • Enforced disappearance
  • he bombing of Halabja and Kurdish villages with chemical weapons
  • Anfal Operations
  • Mass Graves
  • ISIS crimes against the Yazidis

The fourth theme: The role of museums, memorials and research centers in preserving the memory of the genocide

The fifth theme: The memory of genocide in the human sciences

  • Memory of history, geography and monuments
  • Memory of Media, Arts and Literatures
  • Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology and Genocide Memory
  • The role of educational curricula in enriching memory

The sixth theme: The position of the duty of memory in national and international laws

  • The adequacy of Iraqi laws in preventing genocide
  • The position of international conventions on the duty of memory

The seventh theme: Genocide in the memory of survivors