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Area of Interests: I teach in a unique learning environment where students explore and debate the ideas in great texts from the Bible and Qur’an to Plato and Machiavelli. Based on my research interests in comparative genocide and human rights, I teach seminars such as Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Cultures of Peace and Terror, Human Rights: Cultures and Societies at Risk, and the Politics of Mass Hate and Genocide and Challenges of Humanitarianism. Together, in small classes, we read about and debate the history and politics of just and unjust wars, the role of non-governmental organizations and the complex challenges of addressing current mass violence from Chechnya to Darfur. Students have the opportunity to research their own interests; and some recent student projects include: Child Soldiers, HIV/AIDs and the Globalization of Drugs, Photography and Atrocity, and Female Slave Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. Beside encouraging students to attend the many faculty and guest lectures on human rights subjects at NYU,  there are class visits to the United Nations and other sites in New York City. My goal is to introduce diverse perspectives and critical analyses that facilitate each student finding his/her own voice and becoming informed, engaged, members of civil society and the global community.

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