Center for Advanced Genocide Research Hosts International Conference to Shed Light on Genocide and R

Center for Advanced Genocide Research Hosts International Conference to Shed Light on Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala

Jun 22, 2016, 07:47 ET from USC Shoah Foundation

LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twenty years after a civil war and genocide in Guatemala, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will host an international conference that will shed light on this little-known atrocity.

"A Conflict? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala," will run from Sept. 11-14 and feature 23 scholars from around the world who conduct research in multiple disciplines. They will discuss the history and impact of the systematic mass violence that during the early 1980s left 200,000 mostly Mayan Guatemalans dead and more than 1.5 million displaced without basic resources – a genocide hidden under the cover of a 36-year civil war that ended in 1996 with a peace accord.

The conference is being organized by Wolf Gruner, founding director of the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, and Victoria Sanford, founding director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York.

"The Guatemalan genocide has for too long been overlooked," Gruner said. "By hosting this conference, we hope to spark conversation, gain insight and bring attention to the victims of this terrible piece of history that took place here in the Americas. If we can learn the lessons from genocides and the resistance to them, perhaps we can stop them in the future."

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