Noam Schimmel
Biographic Data
| ID | 996019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noam Schimmel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noam |
| FAMILY NAME | Schimmel |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIMMEL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5429-8813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Peace Review Special Issue on Reparative Justice
Interviews with Survivors of the Rwandan-French Genocide against the Tutsi
A Critical Perspective on Reconciliation in Rwanda
Interview with Jacqueline Murekatete, survivor of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi (Interviewed by email by Noam Schimmel, Lecturer, International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley.)
Distorted Representations of Rwandan Tutsis in American Popular Culture
This essay examines early musical, dance, and film representations of Rwandan Tutsis in American popular culture. It illustrates how these representations distort Rwandan and Tutsi heritage, history, and culture and reflect a range of prejudiced, discriminatory, and racist attitudes toward Africans in general and Tutsis in particular in the United States and the West more generally. It illustrates how Tutsis have been directly harmed by these pej…
Toward an Ethic of Friendship in Academic Research
A Critical Perspective on Reconciliation and a Rwandan Case Study
Transitional Justice Interviews and Reflections
An Overview of Contemporary Human Rights Scholarship
Personal Reflections on Shared Identity and Contemporary Relationships of Mutual Support and Intersectional Solidarity of Rwandan Tutsi and Jewish Human Rights Advocates
This article is a qualitative case study of the relationships being formed between Jews and Rwandan Tutsis and the ways in which six individuals, four Tutsis and two Jews involved in advocating for the human rights and welfare of Rwandan genocide survivors articulate their understanding of the bonds between the two communities, their shared experiences, and how their history of having survived persecution and genocide brings them together. Throug…
A Postcolonial Reflection on the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi and Statement of Solidarity with Its Survivors
Keywords African affairs, human rights, justice, law and legal, participation, politics of France, rehabilitation, victim protection, victimization
How Utilitarian Coronavirus Public Health Policies Violate International Human Rights Law
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNoam SchimmelNoam Schimmel is a Lecturer in International and Area Studies, teaching and researching on ethics, human rights, humanitarianism, transitional justice, and development at UC Berkeley. He was formerly Professorial Lecturer and Visiting Associate Professor of Ethics and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He is an Associate Fellow…
From hope to horror
Not enough
Not enough: human rights in an unequal world Not enough: human rights in an unequal world. By Samuel Moyn. Boston: Belknap Press. 2019. 296pp. £19.73. Isbn978 0 67424 139 8. Available as e-book. Noam Schimmel Noam Schimmel University of California, Berkeley, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 97, Issue 2, March 2021, Pages 568–570, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab019 Published…
And I live on
This book is a work of great sensitivity, moral urgency, vision, compassion and magnanimity of spirit that makes a searing impact on readers. What survivors share here and how they share it is an act of radical generosity, given the colossal scale of the pain and suffering entailed in revisiting and recounting the catastrophic human rights violations Rwandan Tutsis experienced during the genocide in 1994. The use of photography personalizes the t…
On the Loneliness and Dissonance of Being a Survivor of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi
Personal Narrative in the Study of Ethics and International Affairs
A few months ago I was writing to a friend who survived the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi and who received asylum in the United States. He wrote to me, “Yes, genocide is really as immense as t
What Caused the Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi
As we commemorate the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi—which took place 26 years ago in April of 1994—it is essential to reflect on the failures of many different individuals, organizations, and
Antisemitism here and now
Though not an academic analysis of anti-Semitism, this book is an ideal introductory text on anti-Jewish racism and will be useful as a pedagogical tool helping to start conversations with students on the subject. Deborah Lipstadt provides a basic and clear introduction to the history of anti-Semitism and its religious, political and cultural contexts and origins, but her focus is contemporary. In this regard, the book serves as a particularly us…
Evidence for Hope
Rebuilding Lives after Genocide
Linda Asquith’s Rebuilding Lives After Genocide: Migration, Adaptation and Acculturation is an innovative, valuable, and ground-breaking work that addresses the ways in which survivors of genocide
Who's afraid of international law
Who's afraid of international law? provides a highly original, diverse and sophisticated collection of commentaries addressing the character, significance, possibilities, successes and failures of international law. Its multidisciplinary perspective, incorporating the humanities, the social sciences and law, makes the book a unique contribution to critical literature on international law. Raimond Gaita and Gerry Simpson provide a breath of fresh …
The future of human rights
The future of human rights is a focused, thoughtful and well-balanced account of the state of human rights today. It expresses well-founded hope for the positive prospects for human rights, while also recognizing and acknowledging their limitations conceptually, politically, legally and socially. It is especially valuable to students looking for an engaging and informative introductory text on contemporary human rights issues and those seeking to…
Human rights futures
Human rights futures is an outstanding edited volume which features high-quality contributions of originality and consequence from a range of scholars of human rights. As a collection it is unparalleled in its breadth and depth, diversity of perspectives and analytical rigour and merits being widely read by scholars and advanced students of human rights and International Relations. To their credit, contributors with substantial disagreements abou…
Seeing the myth in human rights
Seeing the myth in human rights is a work of outstanding and meticulous scholarship that rewards readers with insight into the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ethical and political aspirations of its authors and the complex modes of meaning and value which informed them and continue to inform the declaration's reception today. Jenna Reinbold supplies carefully reasoned philosophical, ethical and sociological analysis. T…
The Modes of Human Rights Literature
Antisemitism here and now
Though not an academic analysis of anti-Semitism, this book is an ideal introductory text on anti-Jewish racism and will be useful as a pedagogical tool helping to start conversations with students on the subject. Deborah Lipstadt provides a basic and clear introduction to the history of anti-Semitism and its religious, political and cultural contexts and origins, but her focus is contemporary. In this regard, the book serves as a particularly us…
Freedom and Autonomy of Street Children
And I live on
This book is a work of great sensitivity, moral urgency, vision, compassion and magnanimity of spirit that makes a searing impact on readers. What survivors share here and how they share it is an act of radical generosity, given the colossal scale of the pain and suffering entailed in revisiting and recounting the catastrophic human rights violations Rwandan Tutsis experienced during the genocide in 1994. The use of photography personalizes the t…
Towards a sustainable and holistic model of peace education
This article explores ways of improving peace education, placing emphasis on peace education programmes in Israel that use dialogue to foster mutual understanding and respect. This article offers a critical assessment of contemporary Israeli peace education initiatives, emphasizing that current peace education programmes in Israel have failed to significantly improve social attitudes between Arabs and Jews. Critiques of contemporary forms of peac…
Judaism and the Origins of Erich Fromm's Humanistic Psychology
This article explores the Jewish roots of Erich Fromm's humanistic psychology: its ethical values, conception of human nature, and societal aspirations. It analyzes key concepts in Fromm's humanistic psychology that have Jewish antecedents, including biophilia, the rejection of idolatry and group narcissism, moral universalism, and free will. It explicates Fromm's major work addressing Judaism and humanistic psychology, You Shall Be as Gods: A Ra…
Evidence for Hope
The NGO game
The NGO game is a detailed, original and substantive contribution to the critical literature on humanitarian and development aid. It provides evidence of major failures in the humanitarian and development aid sectors in post-conflict contexts that are structural, endemic and repetitive in nature, despite being increasingly evident and well documented. Patrice C. McMahon illustrates these failures using evidence from interviews, ethnographic obser…
The Moral Case for Restorative Justice as a Corollary of the Responsibility to Protect
This article analyzes how the current framework of retributive justice pursued by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda fails to respect the human rights and to enable the well-being of Rwandan genocide survivors. Rwandan genocide survivors currently suffer from widespread poverty, lack of access to health care and housing, inadequate educational opportunity, and food insecurity and malnutrition. It calls for the application of restor…
An invisible genocide
This literature review analyses current academic literature examining the reporting of the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi in 1994 in the American and European media. It shows how the genocide was mischaracterised as a ‘tribal war’ and an act of spontaneous violence and primordial hatred, rather than being accurately reported as a meticulously planned and implemented political project of ethnic extermination. It examines the range of reasons for th…
Media Accountability to Investigate Human Rights Violations
Four years ago, at a meeting of the National Press Club in Washington, DC, I found myself confronting an official representative of the Government of Botswana who was denying his government's viola
Freedom and Autonomy of Street Children
Judaism and the Origins of Erich Fromm's Humanistic Psychology
This article explores the Jewish roots of Erich Fromm's humanistic psychology: its ethical values, conception of human nature, and societal aspirations. It analyzes key concepts in Fromm's humanistic psychology that have Jewish antecedents, including biophilia, the rejection of idolatry and group narcissism, moral universalism, and free will. It explicates Fromm's major work addressing Judaism and humanistic psychology, You Shall Be as Gods: A Ra…
Challenging Dutch holocaust education
We analyse the way in which the Holocaust is taught in The Netherlands, with an emphasis on critically examining the content of secondary school textbooks used to teach Dutch students about the history of the Holocaust. We also interview Dutch educators, government officials and academics about the state of Dutch Holocaust education. Our findings indicate that Dutch students are underexposed to the Holocaust and lack basic knowledge and conceptua…
A humanistic approach to caring for street children
This article illustrates the psychologically damaging effects that result from living on the street and that negatively impact upon street children's well-being and development. It notes that one of the fundamental deprivations which street children face—often the very deprivation that prompts their decision to move away from home to the street—is that of close, supportive and loving relationships with adult caregivers. It argues that the success…
Towards a sustainable and holistic model of peace education
This article explores ways of improving peace education, placing emphasis on peace education programmes in Israel that use dialogue to foster mutual understanding and respect. This article offers a critical assessment of contemporary Israeli peace education initiatives, emphasizing that current peace education programmes in Israel have failed to significantly improve social attitudes between Arabs and Jews. Critiques of contemporary forms of peac…
Media Accountability to Investigate Human Rights Violations
Four years ago, at a meeting of the National Press Club in Washington, DC, I found myself confronting an official representative of the Government of Botswana who was denying his government's viola
Captain Abu Raed
An invisible genocide
This literature review analyses current academic literature examining the reporting of the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi in 1994 in the American and European media. It shows how the genocide was mischaracterised as a ‘tribal war’ and an act of spontaneous violence and primordial hatred, rather than being accurately reported as a meticulously planned and implemented political project of ethnic extermination. It examines the range of reasons for th…
Failed aid
This Viewpoint argues that international development aid agencies have failed adequately to address the rights and needs of genocide survivors in Rwanda. It illustrates that genocide survivors remain impoverished and marginalised, and that development aid agencies only tangentially, if at all, acknowledge their vulnerability and take steps to empower them to realise their rights. It provides examples of aid programmes that are reaching genocide s…
The Agahozo-Shalom youth village
This article profiles the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda, a holistic response to the needs of Rwandan orphns. It places particular emphasis on the positive impact of the Village or orphans who survived the genocide and explores their unique circumstances and the social challenges and distinct vulnerabilities they face. It examines the philosophy, educational values, practical challenges of the Village and the full range of programmes it o…
The Moral Case for Restorative Justice as a Corollary of the Responsibility to Protect
This article analyzes how the current framework of retributive justice pursued by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda fails to respect the human rights and to enable the well-being of Rwandan genocide survivors. Rwandan genocide survivors currently suffer from widespread poverty, lack of access to health care and housing, inadequate educational opportunity, and food insecurity and malnutrition. It calls for the application of restor…
The Place of Human Rights in American Efforts to Expand and Universalize Healthcare
The Human Right to Dominate by Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon
The Definition of Anti-Semitism by Kenneth L. Marcus
Genocide
Berel Lang’s Genocide: the act as idea is an erudite, impeccably argued work of philosophy. Its level of depth and detail and the ethical and logical integrity of its tightly argued, spare, and sub
The Modes of Human Rights Literature
The NGO game
The NGO game is a detailed, original and substantive contribution to the critical literature on humanitarian and development aid. It provides evidence of major failures in the humanitarian and development aid sectors in post-conflict contexts that are structural, endemic and repetitive in nature, despite being increasingly evident and well documented. Patrice C. McMahon illustrates these failures using evidence from interviews, ethnographic obser…
Rwandan women rising
Swanee Hunt's Rwandan women rising is a unique and very important work. It gives readers access to exceptionally broad and deep testimonies from Rwandan women who have contributed to the construction of post-genocide Rwandan society, government and culture. The book is beautifully presented, poignant and personal—providing a window on Rwanda that has not been available until now. It is also meticulously and sensitively crafted and a work that I w…
Dangerous diplomacy
An extremely important and valuable work, Dangerous diplomacy contributes substantially and impressively to understanding the pathologies of politics and power at the United Nations, specifically with regard to the organization's actions before and during the Rwandan genocide. The UN failed to prevent and stop the genocide in 1994 and ultimately contributed to its scale and scope. Herman T. Salton's book is a work of great ethical and intellectua…
Evidence for Hope
Rebuilding Lives after Genocide
Linda Asquith’s Rebuilding Lives After Genocide: Migration, Adaptation and Acculturation is an innovative, valuable, and ground-breaking work that addresses the ways in which survivors of genocide
Who's afraid of international law
Who's afraid of international law? provides a highly original, diverse and sophisticated collection of commentaries addressing the character, significance, possibilities, successes and failures of international law. Its multidisciplinary perspective, incorporating the humanities, the social sciences and law, makes the book a unique contribution to critical literature on international law. Raimond Gaita and Gerry Simpson provide a breath of fresh …
The future of human rights
The future of human rights is a focused, thoughtful and well-balanced account of the state of human rights today. It expresses well-founded hope for the positive prospects for human rights, while also recognizing and acknowledging their limitations conceptually, politically, legally and socially. It is especially valuable to students looking for an engaging and informative introductory text on contemporary human rights issues and those seeking to…
Human rights futures
Human rights futures is an outstanding edited volume which features high-quality contributions of originality and consequence from a range of scholars of human rights. As a collection it is unparalleled in its breadth and depth, diversity of perspectives and analytical rigour and merits being widely read by scholars and advanced students of human rights and International Relations. To their credit, contributors with substantial disagreements abou…
Seeing the myth in human rights
Seeing the myth in human rights is a work of outstanding and meticulous scholarship that rewards readers with insight into the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ethical and political aspirations of its authors and the complex modes of meaning and value which informed them and continue to inform the declaration's reception today. Jenna Reinbold supplies carefully reasoned philosophical, ethical and sociological analysis. T…
Political science (42 works) · Law (39 works) · Law (36 works) · Sociology (31 works) · Genocide (21 works) · Human rights (18 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (17 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · Criminology (10 works)