Samuel Totten
Biographic Data
| ID | 537706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Totten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Totten |
| SIGNATURE | TOTTEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
We Cannot Forget: Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. The numbers are staggering; the methods of killing were unspeakable. Utilizing personal interviews with trauma survivors living in Rwandan cities, towns, and dusty villages, We Cannot Forget relates what happened during this period and what their lives were like both prior to and following the genocide. Through powerful stories that are a…
Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds: The US Government’s Complicity in Crimes against Humanity and Genocide
Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide
Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds: The U.S. Government's Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide
Controversies in the Field of Genocide Studies: Genocide: A Critcial Bibliographic Review, Volume 11
Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review
Last Lectures on the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide
Pioneers of Genocide Studies
From the early efforts that emerged in the struggle against Nazism, and over the past half century, the field of genocide studies has grown in reach to include five genocide centers across the globe and well over one hundred Holocaust centers. This work enables a new generation of scholars, researchers, and policymakers to assess the major foci of the field, develop ways and means to intervene and prevent future genocides, and review the successe…
Controversies in the Field of Genocide Studies
At the heart of the field of Genocide Studies lies an active core of vigorous debate that has led to both heated disagreements and productive disputes. This new volume in the Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review series focuses on these, as well as other significant issues. Chapters in this volume focus on a number of issues: Did Peru's Aché suffer genocide? What was the role of media propaganda in the Rwandan Genocide, and what more, if anyt…
Humanitarian Missions to the Nuba Mountains, Sudan: Delivery of Food to Those in Critical Need
The following reports delineate the most recent experiences and insights gleaned by Samuel Totten, a scholar of genocide studies based in the United States, as he traveled up into the war-torn Nuba Mountains in Sudan during December 2014 and April–May 2015. During the course of both trips, accompanied by an interpreter and a driver, both from the Nuba Mountains, he served as a witness to the ongoing aerial attacks by the government of Sudan again…
The Importance of Teaching Social Issues: Our Pedagogical Creeds
Preface: Education in a Time of Crisis-H. Svi Shapiro. Introduction-Samuel Totten. PART ONE: THE IMPERATIVE. 1. The Imperative to Incorporate a Study of Social Issues into the School Curriculum-Samuel Totten. 2. The Social Issues Education Imperative-William G. Wraga. 3. Authentic Teaching is Venturing into Uncertainty-Geneva Gay. 4. Roots, Branches, and Shoots-Margaret Smith Crocco. 5. A Creed for the Non-Religious: Intellectual Freedom-Jack Nel…
Importance of Teaching Social Issues: Our Pedagogical Creeds
Paying Lip Service to R2P and Genocide Prevention: The Muted Response of the US Atrocities Prevention Board and the USHMM’s Committee on Conscience to the Crisis in the Nuba Mountains
This article addresses the response of the United States Atrocities Prevention Board and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience to the ongoing crisis in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains (2011–present). First, it provides an overview of the genocide by attrition of the Nuba people perpetrated by the government of Sudan during the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s; second, it delineates the causes and impact of the current cris…
The State and Future of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An Overview and Analysis of Some Key Issues 1
In addition to providing a succinct history of the field of genocide studies, this article examines such issues as the critical need to address the toughest barriers to the prevention of and intervention against genocide (e.g., realpolitik, the lack of political will, and the reform of the UN Security Council, including the make-up and operation of the Permanent Five members [Great Britain, US, France, Russia, and China]); whether the Crimes Agai…
The UN International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur: New and Disturbing Findings
Following a US referral of the Darfur crisis to the United Nations, the UN undertook the UN Commission of Inquiry into Darfur.In late January 2005, following an analysis of the data collected by the UN's COI team, the UN declared that while it found crimes against humanity had been committed by the government of Sudan (GoS) and the Janjaweed (Arab militia), it did not find evidence that the GoS had perpetrated genocide.Herein, Samuel Totten, argu…
The Release, Transfer and/or Use of Imprisoned Criminals and/or Known Gangsters During the Commission of Acts Potentially Leading Up to Genocide: A Clear and Unmistakable Early Warning Signal of a Fai…
A Tribute to Stephen Feinstein: Teacher, Researcher, Friend, Colleague, and Remarkable Human Being
Darfur: After the Genocide comes to an end, then what
Eventually, killing, fighting and rape between the various actors will come to a halt. Black Africans, the Government of Sudan and the international community will still be confronted to 7 main challenges: Arabs are now beginning to settle on land that the black Africans were forced off of by the GOS and Janjaweed; the inexorable desertification of more and more land in Darfur; the ever-increasing lack of adequate water sources in Darfur; the iss…
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education. The authors (many of whom, themselves, are noted professors of education and who have done significant work in the field of social issues and education) delineate and analyze the efforts (e.g., theoreti…
The US Investigation into the Darfur Crisis and the US Government's Determination of Genocide
This article examines the genesis and implementation of the Atrocities Documentation Project initiated by the US State Department as well as the US government's determination that genocide had been perpetrated
Introduction to the Special Issue on Darfur
Authentic Pedagogy and the Holocaust: A Critical Review of State Sponsored Holocaust Curricula
Over the past decade and a half, states in all regions of the United States have formed Holocaust councils, advisory groups, and other agencies for the purpose of developing educational programs in response to a growing interest in the Holocaust. Some states have called upon educators and Holocaust agencies within the state to develop curricula and/or resource materials for use in social studies and English classrooms. Furthermore, many states no…
The US government Darfur genocide investigation
This research note presents genocide scholars with an overview of the background, methodology, findings, and implications of the first official investigation by one sovereign nation (the United Sta
The United Nations and genocide
The United Nations and genocide: Prevention, intervention, and prosecution
The US Investigation into the Darfur Crisis and the US Government's Determination of Genocide
This article examines the genesis and implementation of the Atrocities Documentation Project initiated by the US State Department as well as the US government's determination that genocide had been perpetrated
The Release, Transfer and/or Use of Imprisoned Criminals and/or Known Gangsters During the Commission of Acts Potentially Leading Up to Genocide: A Clear and Unmistakable Early Warning Signal of a Fai…
The US government Darfur genocide investigation
This research note presents genocide scholars with an overview of the background, methodology, findings, and implications of the first official investigation by one sovereign nation (the United Sta
The United Nations and genocide: Prevention, intervention, and prosecution
Understanding Matters: Holocaust Curricula and the Social Studies Classroom
Over the past two decades, interest in Holocaust education has grown substantially as individual states, starting in the 1980s, began to mandate and/or recommend Holocaust studies as part of the social studies curriculum. As a result, these mandates and/or interest in the Holocaust have spawned any number of curriculum products, some of which seek less to help the student of history acquire an understanding of this historical event, and more in t…
Addressing Social Issues in the Social Studies
Using Reader-Response Theory to Study Poetry about the Holocaust with High School Students
Beliefs of Science Teachers Toward the Teaching of Science/Technological/Social Issues: Are We Addressing National Standards
As science educators, we must view the changing nature of society brought on by technology and the global nature of society as an impetus to reexamine the nature of science instruction. We have been bestowed with the responsibility to educate students on a variety of topics that less than two decades ago did not exist. Many of these social issues are controversial in nature and are directly linked to the local, regional, national, and global comm…
Understanding Matters: Holocaust Curricula and the Social Studies Classroom
Over the past two decades, interest in Holocaust education has grown substantially as individual states, starting in the 1980s, began to mandate and/or recommend Holocaust studies as part of the social studies curriculum. As a result, these mandates and/or interest in the Holocaust have spawned any number of curriculum products, some of which seek less to help the student of history acquire an understanding of this historical event, and more in t…
The United Nations and genocide: Prevention, intervention, and prosecution
Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts
The intervention and prevention of genocide: Sisyphean or doable
As is readily apparent from the mass of killing fields that stained the globe throughout and late into the twentieth century, there is a dire need for an efficacious system of intervention and prev
Authentic Pedagogy and the Holocaust: A Critical Review of State Sponsored Holocaust Curricula
Over the past decade and a half, states in all regions of the United States have formed Holocaust councils, advisory groups, and other agencies for the purpose of developing educational programs in response to a growing interest in the Holocaust. Some states have called upon educators and Holocaust agencies within the state to develop curricula and/or resource materials for use in social studies and English classrooms. Furthermore, many states no…
The US government Darfur genocide investigation
This research note presents genocide scholars with an overview of the background, methodology, findings, and implications of the first official investigation by one sovereign nation (the United Sta
The United Nations and genocide
The US Investigation into the Darfur Crisis and the US Government's Determination of Genocide
This article examines the genesis and implementation of the Atrocities Documentation Project initiated by the US State Department as well as the US government's determination that genocide had been perpetrated
Introduction to the Special Issue on Darfur
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education. The authors (many of whom, themselves, are noted professors of education and who have done significant work in the field of social issues and education) delineate and analyze the efforts (e.g., theoreti…
A Tribute to Stephen Feinstein: Teacher, Researcher, Friend, Colleague, and Remarkable Human Being
Darfur: After the Genocide comes to an end, then what
Eventually, killing, fighting and rape between the various actors will come to a halt. Black Africans, the Government of Sudan and the international community will still be confronted to 7 main challenges: Arabs are now beginning to settle on land that the black Africans were forced off of by the GOS and Janjaweed; the inexorable desertification of more and more land in Darfur; the ever-increasing lack of adequate water sources in Darfur; the iss…
The UN International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur: New and Disturbing Findings
Following a US referral of the Darfur crisis to the United Nations, the UN undertook the UN Commission of Inquiry into Darfur.In late January 2005, following an analysis of the data collected by the UN's COI team, the UN declared that while it found crimes against humanity had been committed by the government of Sudan (GoS) and the Janjaweed (Arab militia), it did not find evidence that the GoS had perpetrated genocide.Herein, Samuel Totten, argu…
The Release, Transfer and/or Use of Imprisoned Criminals and/or Known Gangsters During the Commission of Acts Potentially Leading Up to Genocide: A Clear and Unmistakable Early Warning Signal of a Fai…
The State and Future of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An Overview and Analysis of Some Key Issues 1
In addition to providing a succinct history of the field of genocide studies, this article examines such issues as the critical need to address the toughest barriers to the prevention of and intervention against genocide (e.g., realpolitik, the lack of political will, and the reform of the UN Security Council, including the make-up and operation of the Permanent Five members [Great Britain, US, France, Russia, and China]); whether the Crimes Agai…
The Importance of Teaching Social Issues: Our Pedagogical Creeds
Preface: Education in a Time of Crisis-H. Svi Shapiro. Introduction-Samuel Totten. PART ONE: THE IMPERATIVE. 1. The Imperative to Incorporate a Study of Social Issues into the School Curriculum-Samuel Totten. 2. The Social Issues Education Imperative-William G. Wraga. 3. Authentic Teaching is Venturing into Uncertainty-Geneva Gay. 4. Roots, Branches, and Shoots-Margaret Smith Crocco. 5. A Creed for the Non-Religious: Intellectual Freedom-Jack Nel…
Importance of Teaching Social Issues: Our Pedagogical Creeds
Paying Lip Service to R2P and Genocide Prevention: The Muted Response of the US Atrocities Prevention Board and the USHMM’s Committee on Conscience to the Crisis in the Nuba Mountains
This article addresses the response of the United States Atrocities Prevention Board and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience to the ongoing crisis in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains (2011–present). First, it provides an overview of the genocide by attrition of the Nuba people perpetrated by the government of Sudan during the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s; second, it delineates the causes and impact of the current cris…
Humanitarian Missions to the Nuba Mountains, Sudan: Delivery of Food to Those in Critical Need
The following reports delineate the most recent experiences and insights gleaned by Samuel Totten, a scholar of genocide studies based in the United States, as he traveled up into the war-torn Nuba Mountains in Sudan during December 2014 and April–May 2015. During the course of both trips, accompanied by an interpreter and a driver, both from the Nuba Mountains, he served as a witness to the ongoing aerial attacks by the government of Sudan again…
Controversies in the Field of Genocide Studies: Genocide: A Critcial Bibliographic Review, Volume 11
Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review
Last Lectures on the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide
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