A “Conflict”? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala
September 11-14, 2016
Organized by Wolf Gruner, Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, and Victoria Sanford, Founding Director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies (CfHRPS) at Lehman College, City University of New York.
Cosponsored by USC Latino Alumni Association and USC Dornsife School of International Relations
Supported by Colectivo Guatemalteco en Los Angeles, CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles), Villa Aurora, Program for Torture Victims, FAFG (Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala/Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala)
December 2016 will mark the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Guatemalan peace accords that ended more than thirty years of civil war in 1996. USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will convene an international academic conference bringing researchers from all disciplines as well as the fields of Latin American Studies and Genocide Studies to advance the discussion of “Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala.”
Diciembre del 2016 marcará el 20º aniversario de la firma de los acuerdos de paz culminando así treinta y seis años de guerra civil en Guatemala. El Centro para la investigación avanzada de genocidio de la Fundación de USC Shoah convocará a una conferencia académica internacional con investigadores en diversas disciplinas, en los campos de estudios latinoamericanos y estudios del genocidio para avanzar la discusión de “genocidio y resistencia en Guatemala.”
